[LightDM] autologin-user-timeout

[Robert Ancell]

It depends if lightdm-gtk-greeter uses any new API not provided by your
version of liblightdm, but yes, in general you can run newer greeters
against older versions of lightdm.


On 11 September 2013 19:12, Klaus Jantzen <k.d.jantzen at t-online.de> wrote:

> 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 <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 <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?
>
>
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