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spanezz / nodm

Automatic display manager
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Replace nodm with a custom lightdm greeter #8

Open spanezz opened 7 years ago

spanezz commented 7 years ago

For a while I haven't been using nodm anymore and so I had no motivation for keeping it up to date with modern requirements on display managers. Anyone who would like to do that is free to carry on nodm's development.

I recently had a need for autologin again, and satisfied it with a simple custom greeter for lightdm. I would like, at some point, to polish it and make a GitHub repo for it, and in the meantime, here it is.

I find this way more sustainable in the long term, as it outsources most of the display manager development issues to lightdm, which already needs to stay on top of it.

mailinglists35 commented 6 years ago

I've installed the greeter, it works fine, but how do you make it load user .xsession instead of default openbox?

root     19446  0.4  0.1 301712  7324 ?        Ssl  20:23   0:00 /usr/sbin/lightdm
root     19451  4.6  0.8 201148 30892 tty1     Ssl+ 20:23   0:00  \_ /usr/libexec/Xorg -nocursor :0 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt1 -novtswitch
root     19464  0.2  0.2 198328  7764 ?        Sl   20:23   0:00  \_ lightdm --session-child 12 15
user1    19469  2.8  0.3 208832 11316 ?        Ss   20:23   0:00      \_ /usr/bin/openbox --startup /usr/libexec/openbox-autostart OPENBOX
user1    19955  0.0  0.0  53488   584 ?        Ss   20:23   0:00          \_ /usr/bin/ssh-agent /bin/sh -c exec -l /bin/bash -c "/usr/bin/openbox-session"
mailinglists35 commented 6 years ago

I could not find any way to do this. I have ended up backing up the openbox.desktop file and replace its contents to call /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession instead of /usr/bin/openbox-session

mailinglists35 commented 6 years ago

but still would want to do it the clean way. in my lightdm.conf i see a line saying:

autologin-session=UNIMPLEMENTED

jcrben commented 6 years ago

I think sddm supports autologin as well: https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/751#issuecomment-290902952

mailinglists35 commented 6 years ago

but isn't there someone reporting that you need to press a key to login? I need uninteractive automatic login.

jcrben commented 6 years ago

No keypress is necessary if you follow the process at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=SDDM&oldid=510255#Autologin

piranna commented 5 years ago

For reference, https://github.com/spanezz/lightdm-autologin-greeter.