Linux Lite 2.2 changes in making user account main default login

[gold_finger]

Hi All,
With Lite 1.0.8 I was given the following instructions to make a guest account the default login.

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THIS IS NO LONGER AN OPTION TO SET BY THIS METHOD.
In Lite 2.2, how do we do the same thing?  ???

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Are you sure that method no longer works?

I just ran a test in VBox on LL2.2.  I used Jerry's info to create the missing /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf file and set it to auto-login the non-root user and it worked fine.  Here's what I did.

*  Logged in to the main user account (one with sudo privileges).

*  Used this command to create the lightdm.conf file in the /etc/lightdm directory:

Code:

gksu leafpad /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

*  In the newly opened file, I pasted the exact lines that Jerry posted and substituted the correct username in place of "personsname".  Here's an example:

Code:

[SeatDefaults]
autologin-guest=false
autologin-user=jane
autologin-user-timeout=0
autologin-session=lightdm-autologin

*  Saved the file, closed the text editor.

*  Rebooted and it booted straight into user Jane's account (which is test account I set up without root privileges).


I have a feeling you might have just made some kind of small error.  Double-check what you have against what I just posted.  (Maybe you tried creating the file as a normal user and it never got saved.  It needs to be created as root, thus the need for opening the text editor with "gksu".)