Manually setting autologin

[Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset]

2012/7/29 pierre gobin <pierre.gobin at sfr.fr>:
>
> Sorry, the file has to be like this :
>
>
> [SeatDefaults]
> autologin-user=username
> autologin-user-timeout=0
> user-session=Lubuntu
> greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter
>
>
>
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>
> Message du : 29/07/2012 14:46
> De : "pierre gobin " <pierre.gobin at sfr.fr>
> A : "Lars Noodén " <lars.nooden at gmail.com>
> Copie à : lubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Sujet : Re: Manually setting autologin
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Lubuntu 12.10, as Lubuntu 12.04, uses LightDM, no LXDM. So to set autologin,
> you have to modify "/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf" file, like this :
>
> [SeatDefaults] autologin-user=username autologin-user-timeout=0
> user-session=Lubuntu greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter
>
>
> Replacing username by yours.
>
> Regards,
> Pierre GOBIN
>
>
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>
> Message du : 29/07/2012 13:42
> De : "Lars Noodén " <lars.nooden at gmail.com>
> A : lubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Copie à :
> Sujet : Manually setting autologin
>
>
> On Lubuntu 12.10, I've tried setting autologin in
> /etc/xdg/lubuntu/lxdm/lxdm.conf but that seems to be ignored. In which
> file should I set autologin in order to skip authentication on boot?
>
> Regards,
> /Lars
>
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Dear Lubuntu devs:

I really hope that in 12.10 an easy tool for doing this the easy way
could be implemented. I can't picture any friend of mine editing a
file anywhere just to correct his choice of autologin.

-- jpxsat