On 8/10/19 12:12 PM, Tixy wrote:
On Sat, 2019-08-10 at 11:28 -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote:
On 8/10/19 7:52 AM, Tom Browder wrote:
In an older version of debian (7 or so) I had my system set so the
login screen would show my user name as the default.
That went away after some version upgrade or reinstall and I've
silently grumbled about it ever since (especially when I inadvertently
flash part of my password as my muscle memory has me entering it in
the blank user name slot!).
I have tried searching for the solution but so far have found nothing.
I have also tried "find ~/.config -exec grep -i user {} \; -print "
and found nothing that seemed worth a deeper look.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks.
Best regards,
-Tom
you can edit lightdm.conf/lightdm.conf
Do you mean /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf ?
yes I did
below this header
#
[Seat:*]
find these lines
# autologin-user=
# autologin-user-timeout=0
uncomment the first and add the user name
uncomment the second line if you want autologin (no password)
Uncommenting that line won't change behaviour as the comments give what
the defaults are. If you set a value for autologin-user then that user
will be automatically logged in without asking for a password (this is
what I use). I believe setting autologin-user-timeout to a non-zero
value will delay that number of seconds giving the user chance to
cancel auto-login and select another user. I don't know if that matches
the behaviour Tom is looking for or if he always requires a password to
be entered.
correct, I also use autologin but only on single user systems.
forgot about setting the timeout, yes that works too.
