lightdm issue in live-cd

Sergio secipolla at gmail.com
Fri Nov 23 21:09:04 UTC 2012


On 11/23/2012 04:09 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 08:32:10 -0200
> Sergio <secipolla at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello.
>> Probably because 'Live System User' has no password, lightdm is
>> broken for keyboard navigation in the live-cd.
>> If it had a password, when choosing the user the focus would jump to
>> the password field and then one could hit enter or navigate to the
>> other buttons. The way it is now hitting 'enter' just expands the
>> user options and there's no way to change focus to the 'login' button.
>>
>> Anyway, this seems a limitation of the gtk greeter. Is it planned to
>> skip the DM screen altogether like in previous versions that used gdm?
>
> Yes, it's actually setup this way now, but it's not working for some
> reason. ;(
>
> If someone could poke around on it and track down why it's not
> autologging in the live user that would be great!
>
> You can see in the kickstart we set it up:
>
> http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/spin-kickstarts.git/tree/fedora-livecd-xfce.ks#n78
>
> kevin

Not saying it should be used but in fact in the live-cd autologin isn't 
working. I may try messing with lightdm.conf there to see if it makes 
any difference.

Anyway, is autologin working for anyone in F18 (or even F17)?



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