I am trying to enable autologin but when I go to System Settings > User Accounts my account is listed as (null) and autologin cannot be enabled.
What should I do ?
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I guess this might be a bug. Are there any non-ASCII characters in your username / login name? – lemonslice Dec 2 '16 at 16:48
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no. there aren't any non asci characters in it – Suici Doga Dec 4 '16 at 14:00
You can try to do so using command line. Here's the help page. In particular you need to use,
sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
and thereafter, add the following lines,
[SeatDefaults]
autologin-user=<YOUR USERNAME>
autologin-user-timeout=0
user-session=ubuntu
greeter-session=unity-greeter
This is slightly different than what's mentioned in help page since that's for older release.
Edit - Here's another answer.
