AllenS: you can try setting autologin-session=XBMC to see if it fixes the wrong session problem. About the short timeout, I think that the timeout starts when lightdm starts, and it starts the greeter afterwards and on slower computers the greeter may not have enough time to get to presenting the login screen before the timeout is reached.
To let everyone interested know, I filed bug #1122890 about timed autologin not working after logout from a session. The missing visual indicator is not critical for me, so I won't be filing a bug about that. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/902852 Title: Timed autologin feature not working Status in Light Display Manager: Fix Released Status in Unity Greeter: Fix Released Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “unity-greeter” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “lightdm” source package in Precise: Fix Released Status in “unity-greeter” source package in Precise: Fix Released Status in “lightdm” source package in Quantal: Fix Released Status in “unity-greeter” source package in Quantal: Fix Released Bug description: [Impact] Not able to set an automatic login with a timeout on Ubuntu 12.04.1 [Test Case] 1. Enable automatic login in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf: [SeatDefaults] autologin-user=bob autologin-user-timeout=10 2. Restart machine 3. Wait on greeter Expected result: Greeter automatically logs in as bob after 10 seconds Observed result: Remain on login screen, nothing happens after 10 seconds. [Regression potential] Other authentication may be affected. Tested with lightdm regression tests. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/902852/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
