LXDE Auto Login

Question

I have a VERY old kubuntu server that I had to install LXDE on in order to keep it going (before lubuntu was born).

I just upgraded it to 12.04 as I finally had a need for some more modern features. Unfortunately I have no idea how to get auto login to the desktop working again.

I have found suggestions that the following files should be edited

/etc/lxdm/default.conf
/etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf
/etc/xdg/lxdm/lxdm.conf
/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

to include something like

[base]
## uncomment and set autologin username to enable autologin
autologin=username

but none of these files exist on my system and I cannot find any promising alternatives.

Any suggestions on what I should try or where I should look next would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Solution

Please follow the instructions found in the official Lubuntu Documentation

Quote:

For release 12.04 and on (LightDM)

You will need to create an /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf with these contents: (do this as root)

[SeatDefaults]
autologin-user=<YOUR USER>
autologin-user-timeout=0
# Check https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/854261 before setting a timeout
user-session=Lubuntu
greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter

Comments

[00Kell]

I don't have the following directories at all: /etc/lxdm/ , /etc/lightdm/ , /etc/xdg/lxdm/ or /etc/xdg/lxde/ I do have lxsession and openbox under /etc/xdg/ but these don't contain appropriate .conf files.