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wchouser3

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From: Indiana USA

Registered: 2013-08-13

Posts: 161

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lightdm timeout not working

ok...once again, I'll embark down the rabbit hole,

I've been using Lightdm for sometime, and it works fine except for one problem: The autologin timeout does not work, which is to say that if your set it to "0" you get logged in immediately, where if I set it to anything else, it just sits and waits for me to hit enter.

I'm a member of the "autologin" group, and as I said, it will go straight from Grub, to Plymouth, to WM/DE, or it will just wait....those are my two choices. I would like the timer to work for the following two reasons:
1) I think things should work properly
2) I want to be able to have the login screen at least for a few seconds because I frequently change between i3, dwm, ratpoison, and LXDE

The most important reason I use it over other dm's like LXDM is the fact that it allows you to log in and out without entering a password, where LXDM will autolog you in once, but if you log out, and log back in, you have to enter the password. The same is true with Slim, infact - slim requires a passwd every time you use the login screen.

Information on the topic is hard to find, because most people seem to want it to either log straight in or not at all.

I'm not sure what commands to use to list errors and such, so if you want me to do that, please give me the command to administer.

thank you

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wchouser3

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From: Indiana USA

Registered: 2013-08-13

Posts: 161

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Re: lightdm timeout not working

looks like this one's a stumper

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