No login dailog box and no password
I have SparkyLinux 5.8 (64-bit) installed. There is no login dialog box and no password is ever asked on boot up even though there are countless video reviews of SparkyLinux 5.8 that shows a login dialog box and password being asked. I am using the Xfce desktop envirorment. I didn't select auto login. I asked on the SparkyLinux forums but I have received no replies on this issue as of yet. Does anyone know how to get the login dialog box working?
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You have told us what you do not see when you boot the computer. What do you see? In other words, since you do not boot to a graphical display manager (GDM) with a login dialog, what do you boot to?
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https://vitux.com/how-to-enable-disa...ntu-18-04-lts/ If auto login isn’t what happens when you log in, we need more info. Also tell us what, if anything, you have tried that didn’t work. Cheers! |
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Looks like this one has everyone stumped. Some movement on the SparkyLinux forum that ened up into a dead stop. I was advised to "Have a look in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf under [Seat;*] for autologin-user=
If it is uncommented (missing the #) then that is what the installer has set. - If you have already set a password, you might be safe to comment that line again to ignore autologin." Sorry for not putting in between code because there was no selection to do so. I set a password. This is what I found which I can't make any sense of this. Quote:
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Is there not a GUI setting menu with an auto-login option?
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Thank you "frankbell" for trying to help. I found the solution on the SparkyLinux forum from "21grams" and some figuring out myself. The line where it says "autologin-user=mauser" needed to be changed to "#autologin-user=mauser" Just changing it as root didn't work because it would revert back to it's originonal settings. It was opening with LibreOffice by defualt. Then I remember reading something about text editors. I used Mousepad to edit it and saved it. This time when I rebooted it worked as it should of from the begining which it origonally didn't.
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Find the one you like and add export EDITOR=vim to .bashrc (replacing vim with the editor you want) This should resolve permission issues such as libre office not being able to write to config files. |
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