[LightDM] autologin-user-timeout

Klaus Jantzen k.d.jantzen at t-online.de
Wed Sep 11 00:12:58 PDT 2013


On 09/07/2013 11:30 AM, Robert Ancell wrote:
> The timeout should be in lightdm.conf as you originally had it, if the 
> timeout is not occurring, then there is likely a bug in 
> lightdm-gtk-greeter.
>
>
> On 7 September 2013 19:47, Klaus Jantzen <k.d.jantzen at t-online.de 
> <mailto:k.d.jantzen at t-online.de>> wrote:
>
>     On 09/06/2013 09:40 PM, Robert Ancell wrote:
>>     Hi Klaus,
>>
>>     That is the correct interpretation, however the timeout is
>>     actually performed by the greeter - what greeter are you using?
>>     LightDM tells the greeter to log in that user after the set
>>     number of seconds.
>>
>>     --Robert
>>
>>
>>     On 7 September 2013 06:46, Klaus Jantzen <k.d.jantzen at t-online.de
>>     <mailto:k.d.jantzen at t-online.de>> wrote:
>>
>>         Hello,
>>
>>         in the assumption that I understand them correctly I specified in
>>         /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
>>
>>         autologin-user=xxxx
>>         autologin-user-timeout=10
>>
>>         so that after 10 seconds the user xxxx is logged-in
>>         automatically.
>>
>>         What happens is that the user xxxx is logged-in immediately
>>         i.e. without any delay.
>>
>>         Do I understand the second variable wrong or am I missing
>>         something?
>>
>>         Thanks for any help.
>>
>>         K.D.J.
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>>
>     Hi Robert,
>
>     in lightdm.conf I have
>
>        greeter-session=lightdm-greeter
>
>     In lightdm-greeter-gtk.conf I don't see any possibility to set the
>     delay/timeout.
>
>     K.D.J.
>
>
>
>
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Would it be possible to replace the currently by Wheezy used version of 
lightdm-gtk-greeter (1.1.6-2) by the latest version 1.6?

K.D.J.


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