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
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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.
I am on Hera - Elementary 5.1.
Tried many ways. This is the only way working for me.
/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
[seats:*]
autologin-guest=false
/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/01-xx.conf
[SeatDefaults]
greeter-session=false
autologin-user=xx
autologin-user-timeout=0
lightdm --show-config
[Seat:*]
G greeter-session=false
A user-session=pantheon
B allow-guest=false
D greeter-wrapper=/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm-greeter-session
E guest-wrapper=/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm-guest-session
F xserver-command=X -core
G autologin-user=xx
G autologin-user-timeout=0
H autologin-guest=false
[LightDM]
C backup-logs=false
Sources:
A /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/40-io.elementary.greeter.conf
B /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-disable-guest.conf
C /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-disable-log-backup.conf
D /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-greeter-wrapper.conf
E /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-guest-wrapper.conf
F /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-xserver-command.conf
G /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/01-xx.conf
H /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
