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I've been playing with Ubuntu Oneiric on my netbook (where breakage isn't really a concern); I like the new lightdm login screen, but it has one minor annoyance: in addition to my own user account, there's another account for occasional use by my girlfriend, and her user account is the one that's always focused (presumably because it's first alphabetically). I know how to fix this in gdm but haven't found a solution for lightdm. Does anyone know how to set it up so my account is highlighted by default?

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Edit the file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf (gksu gedit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf) and add a line like this at it: 

default-user=sean_fitzpatrick
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Thanks, but so far I've had no luck - has this worked for you? I've tried different variations, eg default-user=sean (my login name), default-user=1000 (my UID), etc but so far, no change. – Sean Fitzpatrick Aug 31 '11 at 21:20
I've read it somewhere, don't remember where. I'm not using lightdm yet. I will research more. – desgua Aug 31 '11 at 21:39
OK, this seems to work now - with the latest updates the correct user is selected by default. Not sure if this is due to me adding the default-user line, or if it now remembers the last login. (I guess I could try removing the default-user line and see what happens - but at least it works now!) – Sean Fitzpatrick Oct 1 '11 at 17:07
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