autologin with lxdm

Christoph Wickert christoph.wickert at googlemail.com
Wed Aug 10 21:53:12 UTC 2011


Am Mittwoch, den 10.08.2011, 23:33 +0200 schrieb Heiko Adams: 
> Am 10.08.2011 23:23, schrieb Christoph Wickert:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 10.08.2011, 22:43 +0200 schrieb Heiko Adams: 
> >> Hi,
> >> can anyone tell me how I've to configure lxdm to do an autologin into xfce?
> > 
> > Please look into /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf:
> > 
> >         [base]
> >         autologin=heiko
> >         # session=/usr/bin/startlxde
> > 
> > Pretty straight forward, isn't it? ;)
> > 
> > The session is better be set in /etc/sysconfig/desktop as described in
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LXDE#Make_LXDE_the_default_Desktop
> > 
> That's exaclty what I've tried already without success and without any
> error message. I just got back to the login window and that's it.

What *exactly* have you tried?
Did you set the session in /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf or
in /etc/sysconfig/desktop?
Did you verify the path to /usr/bin/startxfce4 is correct?
Nothing in /var/log/lxdm.log?

Please also try with selinux=0 to make sure it's not SELinux.

Regards,
Christoph



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