Instructions for installing lightdm on new Devuan 5 installation?

mtbvfr · 2024-12-29 04:30:14

Hi Folks,

I would like to have a more User Friendly Login screen (greeter) so that the User doesn't have to type in their User Name every time they Login as per MX Linux which uses lightdm-gtk-greeter and lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings and lightdm-modified-init.

I found the following page (Item 3).

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/display- … -uninstall

Are those instructions compatible with Devuan 5 - i386?

Does lightdm need to be run as a Service?

Is there anything missing from those instructions?

Thanks!!

rolfie · 2024-12-29 09:42:10

I am a long term user of Lightdm on amd64, but I see no reason why it shouldn't work on i386.

Simple instructions:

# apt install lightdm
# nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

Edit under Seats, remove the hash before greeter_hide_users

mtbvfr · 2024-12-29 10:04:44

rolfie wrote:

I am a long term user of Lightdm

Should I also install lightdm-gtk-greeter as suggested on the website I mentioned?

I just noticed that that website mentions configuring the /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf file but but without any instructions in how to do so - duh!

Why do we want to Hide the Users? Did you mean [SeatDefaults]?

In MX Linux, greeter-hide-users is commented with a # to disable that setting. When the Login screen appears the User Name is already entered.

Thanks!!

rolfie · 2024-12-29 10:29:31

The command I gave installs all required dependencies. I never drilled any deeper. You may look them up with Synaptics if you like.

To the conf file: the default is that user names are hidden. You need to enable that line and set it to false.

BTW: the conf file is confusing. In the beginning there is a lot of comments to all the settings. The relevant line is some way down the file under the [seats] section.

mtbvfr · 2024-12-30 10:15:51

rolfie wrote:

The command I gave

I used Synaptic and it marked all the required dependencies for installation too.

During the installation process, I was also prompted with a Dialogue Window to select which Display Manager (DM) was to be active. slim was already selected as it was the current one. So, I selected lightdm which was at the top of the list.

I then edited the lightdm.conf file.

I rebooted the Laptop et voila lightdm was the active DM.

Thanks!! again, MTB.

I prefer using Synaptic because it maintains a History of installations which is useful if you need to return to a previous configuration.

rolfie · 2024-12-30 11:07:29

Apt also provides a log, refer to /var/log/apt/history.log.

greenjeans · 2024-12-30 18:21:31

Apt also provides a log, refer to /var/log/apt/history.log.

Pretty sure that's where Synaptic gets it's history, loads that file when you open it. So it's the same history.

But if you never use the GUI, then yeah.

stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn · 2024-12-31 09:29:34

also see /var/log/apt/term.log (for the same stuff you see scroll by in the synaptic terminal window)

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Instructions for installing lightdm on new Devuan 5 installation?

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Re: Instructions for installing lightdm on new Devuan 5 installation?

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