Help with display management

Kevin O'Gorman kogorman at gmail.com
Sun Jul 5 20:23:01 UTC 2015


On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5 July 2015 at 19:57, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 5 July 2015 at 18:45, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > There's only one user I can log in as.  Of course I could create one,
> but it seems unlikely to help.
> >>
> >>
> >> Does Xubuntu not provide a Guest login?
> >>
> >> Colin
> >>
> >
> > Not automatically, no.  When I just redid the install (yes, I made a
> root goof that was worth un-doing) there was just one account in /home.
>
> Guest does not have a permanent home folder.  Logout and see whether
> Guest is an option on the login page.  Google shows numerous hits for
> people asking how to disable the Guest login in Xubuntu which suggests
> that, by default, Guest is available.
>
> Colin
>
> Well, I'll be snookered.  There it is.  I've been using this for years
without knowing that.

How DO you disable it?  I'm the only user, my wife hated her one brief
encounter with Linux, and I see no reason to have it.  No real problem
either, but it just doesn't make sense to have.

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