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Captain Rage

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Registered: 2012-02-02

Posts: 49

[SOLVED] How to hide the virtual console when running LightDM at boot?

Hi,

Until now I've been using Compiz standalone, which was set up in .xinitrc to run after logging into the virtual console. However, the other day I installed Openbox, as well as LightDM (to be able to gracefully switch between these window managers). I managed to configure LightDM to behave as I'd like it to, with one exception: after the boot loader (GRUB) and the systemd screens have disappeared, the virtual console shows up for a (brief, albeit annoying) moment before the LightDM greeter finally appears.
Is there any way to make the greeter appear directly, insead of showing the virtual console login? Most of the settings for LightDM are set to default.

PS.
I found https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Silent_boot and I read the LightDM wiki page, but I still haven't figure out how to tweak this to my liking.

Last edited by Captain Rage (2015-10-18 12:57:48)

Raynman

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Registered: 2011-10-22

Posts: 1,539

Re: [SOLVED] How to hide the virtual console when running LightDM at boot?

You could disable getty@tty1.service. See also https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=203108

Captain Rage

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Registered: 2012-02-02

Posts: 49

Re: [SOLVED] How to hide the virtual console when running LightDM at boot?

Oh, that's exactly the same problem that I was having. Disabling getty@tty1.service and setting 'minimum-vt=1' in lightdm.conf did the trick. Thanks alot.

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