I want to know how to make Lubuntu 14.04 restart every two hours, login, and open a program. I am currently stuck on the first part which is to make it login automatically. I have tried changing lightdm.conf and lightdm.conf.d folder, and default.conf to no avail. What should I do?
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According to the Lubuntu documentation, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Boot_Install_Login#For_release_12.04_and_on_.28LightDM.29, You will need to create an /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf with these contents: (do this as root)
[SeatDefaults]
autologin-user=<YOUR USER>
autologin-user-timeout=0
# Check https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/854261 before setting a timeout
user-session=Lubuntu
greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter
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This file doesn't exist, and when I created this and added this information in, it didn't work.– Byte11Mar 3, 2016 at 3:03
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1@DavidCabrera I really can't remember since it was so long ago. I remember doing some modification on a file in nano that had something to do with how the su, sudo, or restart command worked. That's all I can vaguely remember, sorry. I do know that it is in fact possible in Lubuntu 14.04 without installing outside software.– Byte11Dec 10, 2016 at 0:38
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This solution worked for me. The link (at the bottom) is dead but I got a cached version.
$ sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
Add the following lines replacing myusername with your user:
[Seat:*]
pam-service=lightdm
pam-autologin-service=lightdm-autologin
autologin-user=myusername
autologin-user-timeout=0
To check use:
$ /usr/sbin/lightdm --show-config
Source: http://www.neatlittleinsights.com/htdocs/lubuntu_16.04_autologin.html
Lubuntu uses LightDM for login, You need to modify the config file. You need to check, where are they:
/usr/sbin/lightdm --show-config
You will see the proper config files under the "Sources" paragraph.
Then you can edit the first one with root privileges (eg. for Ubuntu 17 this is):
sudo nano /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/20-lubuntu.conf
Add your username to the autologin-user line (or add the line if it is not defined). It will look like:
[Seat:*]
user-session=lubuntu
autologin-user=myusername
autologin-user-timeout=0
Save and check again with
/usr/sbin/lightdm --show-config
Create an arbitrarily named file in sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/
e.g. 10-autologin.conf
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with the content
[Seat:*]
autologin-guest = false
autologin-user = USERNAME
autologin-user-timeout = 0
[SeatDefaults]
allow-guest = false
Check with sudo /usr/sbin/lightdm --show-config
which will show different settings with a capital letter indicating from with file they come from. In my case, the relevant letter is I
:
[Seat:*]
E user-session=ubuntu
C greeter-wrapper=/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm-greeter-session
D guest-wrapper=/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm-guest-session
H greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter
G xserver-command=X -core
I autologin-guest=false
I autologin-user=ben
I autologin-user-timeout=0
I allow-guest=false
Tested in Lubuntu 20.04 -
based on
- https://manual.lubuntu.me/stable/3/3.1/3.1.9/sddm_configuration.html
- https://askubuntu.com/a/1130768/207905
$ sudo nano /etc/sddm.conf
[Autologin]
User=myusername
Session=Lubuntu