On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:49:13AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > it seems that I am using lightdm.
I know of absolutely no documentation for configuring lightdm as a user. I suspect that the software *has* no user configuration at all, because every search I've ever done has come up with nothing. (For example, https://wiki.debian.org/LightDM has zero instances of "home" or "~" or "dot".) So then we enter the murky waters of "what happens after lightdm". Here I can only find hints and conjectures and anecdotes. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/10/msg02242.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/12/msg00775.html https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2483/howto-debian-wheezy-lightdm-i3.1.html ...