Ubuntu 12.04 changed itself to xubuntu and stopped working

[Colin Law]

On 30 July 2015 at 18:22, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> Using
> vi /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
> I get
>
> [SeatDefaults]
> greeter-session=unity-greeter
> user-session=ubuntu
> display-setup-script=/sbin/prime-offload
> display-stopped-script=/sbin/prime-switch
> ~
> ~
> ...
> "etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf" [readonly] 5L, 148C 1.1 All
>
> So it appears that, even if the autologin line was there, I would not
> be able to do anything to change it.

There are ways around the read only problem, but as you say it appears
not to be set to autologin so that is not part of the issue.

Colin