On 2014-06-21 9:16 AM, Fred Schiff wrote:
Does a media center actually need a graphical login manager?
No, but I've found it simpler to use a light DM (lxdm and now lightdm)
than to keep up with the proper way to initialize a session. Back before
systemd I use to ck-launch-session dbus-launch etc. etc.
I run an openbox session which autostarts xbmc so that I can launch
other programs (games, web browsers, ripping tools) from it.
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Stephen Baker <baker.stephen.e@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On 2014-06-20 12:22, Daniel Leining wrote:
I don't think you're doing anything wrong. Your setup is almost identical
to mine.
% cat /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf | grep -v "^#"
[LightDM]
greeter-user=lightdm
minimum-vt=1
log-directory=/var/log/lightdm
run-directory=/run/lightdm
[SeatDefaults]
greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter
session-wrapper=/etc/lightdm/Xsession
autologin-user=daniel
autologin-user-timeout=0
pam-service=lightdm-autologin
Ah, I see your autologin-* lines are under [SeatDefaults] and mine are
above. I fixed that and it's working now.
[XDMCPServer]
[VNCServer]
#End of file
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Stephen Baker <
baker.stephen.e@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hello,
I've been trying to get autologin working in LightDM on my mediacenter
without success. I believe I've copied all the instructions in the wiki
page, and I'm not seeing where the problem is.
mediacenter% cat /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf | grep -v "^#"
[LightDM]
minimum-vt=1
run-directory=/run/lightdm
autologin-user=family
autologin-user-timeout=0
[SeatDefaults]
session-wrapper=/etc/lightdm/Xsession
pam-service=lightdm-autologin
[XDMCPServer]
[VNCServer]
#End of file
mediacenter% groups
adm disk wheel games video audio optical floppy storage power users
family
autologin
mediacenter% journalctl -b -u lightdm --no-pager
-- Logs begin at Mon 2012-10-22 16:11:18 EDT, end at Thu 2014-06-19
22:24:36 EDT. --
Jun 19 22:12:29 mediacenter systemd[1]: Started Light Display Manager.
Jun 19 22:12:36 mediacenter lightdm[699]: pam_unix(lightdm-greeter:
session):
session opened for user lightdm by (uid=0)
Jun 19 22:16:25 mediacenter lightdm[723]: pam_unix(lightdm:session):
session opened for user family by (uid=0)
# the last line was my manual login after waiting several minutes.
Is there anything else I should be checking, or any caveats anyone is
aware of?
Thanks!
