How to enable automatic login after installing elementary OS Loki

Question

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 ?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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