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Hello,
on my Arch Linux system exists 2 user accounts.
When I boot the system, I always get <userA> preselected.
How can I modify LightDM to use <userB> preselected?
And is there a dependency to the used greeter-session = lightdm-webkit2-greeter?
THX
Last edited by cmonty14 (2021-02-04 18:28:12)
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on my Arch Linux system exists 2 user accounts.
When I boot the system, I always get <userA> preselected.How can I modify LightDM to use <userB> preselected?
Not easily see https://askubuntu.com/questions/59199/c … in-lightdm
And is there a dependency to the used greeter-session = lightdm-webkit2-greeter?
See LightDM#Greeter
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There's no such file
/var/lib/lightdm/.cache/lightdm-gtk-greeter/state
on Arch Linux.
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The path will be greeter dependent that file is used by lightdm-gtk-greeter.
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I followed the instructions, but the default user is not working.
This means I created script /usr/local/bin/lightdm-default-user with this content:
#!/bin/sh
# LightDM removed the default-user option.
# The only recourse now is an ugly kludge.
# Note that if you want to default to the "Guest Session",
# you need to specify the last user as "*guest".
/bin/echo -e '[greeter]\nlast-user=heike' > /var/lib/lightdm/.cache/lightdm-webkit2-greeter/state
This script is writing correctly to
cat /var/lib/lightdm/.cache/lightdm-webkit2-greeter/state
[greeter]
last-user=heike
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