[LightDM] autologin-user-timeout

Robert Ancell robert.ancell at gmail.com
Sat Sep 7 02:30:18 PDT 2013


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> 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> 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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