[xubuntu-users] lightdm greeter suddenly appeared and I can't get rid of it

[Knute Johnson]

The solution for me was:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm

I have no idea what this fixed but it works fine now.


knute at knute-XPS-8700:~$ sudo systemctl status lightdm
[sudo] password for knute:
● lightdm.service - Light Display Manager
      Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service; indirect; 
vendor pres>
      Active: active (running) since Sun 2020-09-27 10:22:47 CDT; 1min 
20s ago
        Docs: man:lightdm(1)
     Process: 927 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c [ "$(basename $(cat 
/etc/X11/default-d>
    Main PID: 937 (lightdm)
       Tasks: 9 (limit: 19090)
      Memory: 78.4M
      CGroup: /system.slice/lightdm.service
              ├─ 937 /usr/sbin/lightdm
              └─1038 /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -core :0 -seat seat0 -auth 
/var/run/ligh>

Sep 27 10:22:47 knute-XPS-8700 systemd[1]: Starting Light Display Manager...
Sep 27 10:22:47 knute-XPS-8700 systemd[1]: Started Light Display Manager.
Sep 27 10:22:48 knute-XPS-8700 lightdm[1102]: 
pam_unix(lightdm-autologin:sessio>

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Knute Johnson