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Replace nodm with a custom lightdm greeter #8

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Replace nodm with a custom lightdm greeter#8

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@spanezz
spanezz
opened on Mar 16, 2017

For a while I haven't been using nodm anymore and so I had no motivation for keeping it up to date with modern requirements on display managers. Anyone who would like to do that is free to carry on nodm's development.

I recently had a need for autologin again, and satisfied it with a simple custom greeter for lightdm. I would like, at some point, to polish it and make a GitHub repo for it, and in the meantime, here it is.

I find this way more sustainable in the long term, as it outsources most of the display manager development issues to lightdm, which already needs to stay on top of it.

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  1. mailinglists35 commented on Dec 5, 2017

    @mailinglists35
    mailinglists35
    on Dec 5, 2017

    I've installed the greeter, it works fine, but how do you make it load user .xsession instead of default openbox?

    root     19446  0.4  0.1 301712  7324 ?        Ssl  20:23   0:00 /usr/sbin/lightdm
root     19451  4.6  0.8 201148 30892 tty1     Ssl+ 20:23   0:00  \_ /usr/libexec/Xorg -nocursor :0 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt1 -novtswitch
root     19464  0.2  0.2 198328  7764 ?        Sl   20:23   0:00  \_ lightdm --session-child 12 15
user1    19469  2.8  0.3 208832 11316 ?        Ss   20:23   0:00      \_ /usr/bin/openbox --startup /usr/libexec/openbox-autostart OPENBOX
user1    19955  0.0  0.0  53488   584 ?        Ss   20:23   0:00          \_ /usr/bin/ssh-agent /bin/sh -c exec -l /bin/bash -c "/usr/bin/openbox-session"

  2. mailinglists35 commented on Dec 6, 2017

    @mailinglists35
    mailinglists35
    on Dec 6, 2017

    I could not find any way to do this. I have ended up backing up the openbox.desktop file and replace its contents to call /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession instead of /usr/bin/openbox-session

  3. mailinglists35 commented on Dec 6, 2017

    @mailinglists35
    mailinglists35
    on Dec 6, 2017

    but still would want to do it the clean way. in my lightdm.conf i see a line saying:

    #autologin-session=UNIMPLEMENTED

  4. jcrben commented on Feb 11, 2018

    @jcrben
    jcrben
    on Feb 11, 2018

    I think sddm supports autologin as well: sddm/sddm#751 (comment)

  5. mailinglists35 commented on Feb 11, 2018

    @mailinglists35
    mailinglists35
    on Feb 11, 2018

    but isn't there someone reporting that you need to press a key to login? I need uninteractive automatic login.

  6. jcrben commented on Feb 11, 2018

    @jcrben
    jcrben
    on Feb 11, 2018

    No keypress is necessary if you follow the process at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=SDDM&oldid=510255#Autologin

  7. pukkamustard
    added a commit that references this issue on Dec 18, 2018

    Make lightdm autologin always skip greeter

    e05faf2

  8. piranna commented on Jan 20, 2019

    @piranna
    piranna
    on Jan 20, 2019

    For reference, https://github.com/spanezz/lightdm-autologin-greeter.

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