<div dir="ltr">Hi Bevis,<div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 November 2014 23:42, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:b.king@surrey.ac.uk" target="_blank">b.king@surrey.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">If you lock your screen, it can spawn a new greeter on VT8 – this<br>
doesn’t seem to always happen, I haven’t worked out exactly what<br>
situations cause this. Usually, when it locks after a session idle<br>
timeout, it just shows screensaver, manually asking it to lock gives you<br>
a greeter in VT8. I’ve not checked if logging in with a second account,<br>
then locking that continues into VT9.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>What session are you using and what method is being used to lock the screen? Some sessions lock the screen by getting the session to draw a shield across their shell and prompting for authentication. Others ask LightDM to lock the screen - this causes a greeter to be started on another VT that switches back to the session once authenticated.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Related to your own ~/.dmrc, the default set<br>
in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf and /var/cache/lightdm/dmrc/$USER.dmrc<br>
which seems to be created after first login<br>
<br>
Defaults can get mixed up and simply not log you in. I have noticed<br>
this going from my trusty desktop in the office to a precise lab machine<br>
– looks like it works after the first failed attempt without changing<br>
anything (I guess it picks up the created lightdm cache .dmrc file)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure exactly what you mean here. Could you file a bug [1] with a set of steps that cause this and the logs from /var/log/lightdm?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>--Robert</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+filebug">https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+filebug</a></div></div></div></div></div>