Re: [arch-general] LightDM autologin not working

2014-06-21 Thread Stephen E. Baker
On 2014-06-21 9:16 AM, Fred Schiff wrote: Does a media center actually need a graphical login manager? No, but I've found it simpler to use a light DM (lxdm and now lightdm) than to keep up with the proper way to initialize a session. Back before systemd I use to ck-launch-session dbus-launch e

Re: [arch-general] LightDM autologin not working

2014-06-21 Thread Germán Gutiérrez
But it's one approach. :) El jun 21, 2014 12:03 PM, "Ralf Mardorf" escribió: > On Sat, 2014-06-21 at 12:00 -0300, Germán Gutiérrez wrote: > > AFAIU xbmc needs X > > You don't need a DM to automatically start X. > >

Re: [arch-general] LightDM autologin not working

2014-06-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-06-21 at 12:00 -0300, Germán Gutiérrez wrote: > AFAIU xbmc needs X You don't need a DM to automatically start X.

Re: [arch-general] LightDM autologin not working

2014-06-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-06-21 at 09:16 -0400, Fred Schiff wrote: > Does a media center actually need a graphical login manager? JFTR there could be reasons to use a greeter, e.g. the parents login vs the children's login to e.g. limit the hours/day children are allowed to use the computer for e.g watching vi

Re: [arch-general] LightDM autologin not working

2014-06-21 Thread Germán Gutiérrez
AFAIU xbmc needs X El jun 21, 2014 10:16 AM, "Fred Schiff" escribió: > Does a media center actually need a graphical login manager? > > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Stephen Baker > wrote: > > > On 2014-06-20 12:22, Daniel Leining wrote: > > > >> I don't think you're doing anything wrong. Y

Re: [arch-general] LightDM autologin not working

2014-06-21 Thread Fred Schiff
Does a media center actually need a graphical login manager? On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Stephen Baker wrote: > On 2014-06-20 12:22, Daniel Leining wrote: > >> I don't think you're doing anything wrong. Your setup is almost identical >> to mine. >> >> % cat /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf | gr

Re: [arch-general] LightDM autologin not working

2014-06-20 Thread Stephen Baker
On 2014-06-20 12:22, Daniel Leining wrote: I don't think you're doing anything wrong. Your setup is almost identical to mine. % cat /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf | grep -v "^#" [LightDM] greeter-user=lightdm minimum-vt=1 log-directory=/var/log/lightdm run-directory=/run/lightdm [SeatDefaults] gre

Re: [arch-general] LightDM autologin not working

2014-06-20 Thread Daniel Leining
I don't think you're doing anything wrong. Your setup is almost identical to mine. % cat /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf | grep -v "^#" [LightDM] greeter-user=lightdm minimum-vt=1 log-directory=/var/log/lightdm run-directory=/run/lightdm [SeatDefaults] greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter session-wrapp

[arch-general] LightDM autologin not working

2014-06-19 Thread Stephen Baker
Hello, I've been trying to get autologin working in LightDM on my mediacenter without success. I believe I've copied all the instructions in the wiki page, and I'm not seeing where the problem is. mediacenter% cat /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf | grep -v "^#" [LightDM] minimum-vt=1 run-directory=