As of Ubuntu 12.04, the disable=0
in /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf
is working.
The whitelist setting does not seem to work, but the blacklist one does, and the syntax seems to be user names separated by spaces. LXDM appears to include in the user list the first three users it finds whose home directory (as specified in /etc/passwd
) are under /home
, which is why you will see users like syslog and usbmux listed.
This also means that if you put a user's home directory in a non-standard location (other than /home) then the user name won't be listed. I worked around that by putting in a softlink from /home/[username] to the real location, so I could leave /home/[username] in /etc/passwd
and get lxdm to show it in the list.