<div>On 07/12/2007, Matthew Wild <<a href="mailto:mwild1@gmail.com">mwild1@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Dec 6, 2007 8:09 PM, Kris Douglas <<a href="mailto:kris@softdel.co.uk">kris@softdel.co.uk</a>> wrote: > Hi, I was just wondering if it was possible to manually configure gnome, for > example to set it to autologin without having desktop access. I am currently > away from the server, and with using Vino, as you know, needs to be logged > in to work, and after a spontaneous reboot, I can only access the server > through ssh. So I was wondering if there was any way to manually change the > config to autologin the default user and let me use Vino... > > ...Thanks, Kris. > > -- > Kris Douglas >       Softdel Limited Hosting Services > >       Web: <a href="http://www.softdel.net">www.softdel.net</a> >       Mail: <a href="mailto:kris@softdel.net">kris@softdel.net</a> > -- > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk </a> > <a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/">https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/</a> > > sudo nano /etc/gdm/gdm.conf There you'll find where you can set the automatic login to true, and set the username below it. After changing hit Ctrl+O, Ctrl+X, and run: sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart Matthew. -- <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> <a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/">https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/</a> </blockquote></div> <div> Thank you very much :) </div> <div> </div> <div>Much appreciated. -- Kris Douglas       Softdel Limited Hosting Services       Web: <a href="http://www.softdel.net">www.softdel.net</a>       Mail: <a href="mailto:kris@softdel.net"> kris@softdel.net</a> </div>