[LightDM] Problem with a non-0 autologin-user-timeout

[poma]

On 07.06.2015 03:50, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> I've installed the following in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/10-autologin.conf
> 
> [SeatDefaults]
> autologin-user=mrsam
> autologin-user-timeout=0
> 
> This works fine. The system boots straight into my xfce desktop, don't even  
> see the lightdm or lightdm-gtk-greeter.
> 
> But if I change autologin-user-timeout, say five seconds, I boot to the  
> login screen, and nothing happens no matter how long I wait. A minute, a few  
> more minutes, and eventually the screensaver kicks in.
> 
> May or may not be related: I was originally running gdm, with a timed  
> autologin, but after upgrading to Fedora 22, the timed autologin stopped  
> working in gdm, too. gdm's own greeter counts down the timer delay with a  
> progress bar, and it was counting off the delay, as usual, but it was  
> stopping when it reached the full length of the delay, and was not logging  
> me.
> 
> So, since I switched everything on my desktop to xfce, except for gdm, I  
> figured this was a good excuse to switch to lightdm. Configuring an  
> automatic login was easy, but an automatic login after a timeout also isn't  
> working, apparnetly, for some reason, like gdm. Strange.
> 


You need a higher version from the one in Fedora, in fact the latest version,
e.g.
$ rpm -q lightdm lightdm-gtk
lightdm-1.15.0-2.fc22.x86_64
lightdm-gtk-2.0.1-2.fc22.x86_64

Here you can find source rpms:
http://goo.gl/Gm4ffO
SRPMS/Extra.tar


Ref.
"fix-timed-autologin"
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~lightdm-gtk-greeter-team/lightdm-gtk-greeter/trunk/revision/328