[nmglug] No GUI desktop=added info

[okeefe at cybermesa.com]

On Sat, March 17, 2018 4:09 pm, s at mnoble.net wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 02:39:50PM -0600, okeefe at cybermesa.com wrote:
>> Thanks Sam. I'm increasingly flumoxed. Are you available for paid work?
>> Seriously because....
> Let's not cross that bridge yet, I think you may be pretty close.
>
>> The Ubuntoids have not responded at all.
> Boo hiss.
>
>> > I guess we skipped the part where you tell us if your using startx
>> > intentially, or if it's something you started doing becouse your DM is
>> > broken?
>> Broken DM
> OK cool so let's pick a DM and get it working. We can ignore the video
> group permissions etc. Sounds like lightdm is currently installed and
> 'working' we'll just poke at it's settings.
>
>> So I just installed xubuntu-desktop and here're the results.......
>> Kubuntu throbbing on black screen.  It disappears then.....nothing. Go
>> to tty1 and have login prompt. Login as ubuntu (me) then $lightdm.
>> XFCE desktop appears with ubuntuguest as user.
> Apparently lightdm defaults this way. See links below.
>
>> I've googled this until I'm blue in the face.
> Here's some relevant stuff you may have bumped into:
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/62564/how-do-i-disable-the-guest-session#62566
> Which lead me here:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LightDM
>
> I think we should try this one:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LightDM#Allow_Manual_Login
> Edit the lightdm config file probably /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf but if
> that's not seeming to take effect note the list of cascading conf files
> from the top of that page.
> To include:
> [SeatDefaults]
> greeter-show-manual-login=true
did this but no login greeter after reboot but boots into XFCE for ubuntu
guest. So tried:
commenting out
autologin-user=ubuntuguest (which was in the file the first time I opened
it yesterday as I had also seen in a post tho not the wiki. I don't know
why that line is there but I didn't nor would have put it in there for
obvious reasons)
and when that just led to a blank screen at stopping then restarting
lightdm  so added along with commented out line above:
autologin-user=ubuntu
which led to blank screen. File now is:
[SeatDefaults]
greeter-session=unity-greeter
greeter-show-manual-login=true
user-session=xubuntu

[Seat:*]
autologin-user=ubuntuguest

And is only config that gives Xsession, XFCEWM. I can delete line:
greeter-show-manual-login=true
and results are the same. Autologin to ubuntuguest XFCE

Holy Trumpitocious Batman!
>
> also note the info at the top of that page about later versions of
> lightdm changing the syntax from SeatDefaults to Seat:*
>
> After each change you try do:
> $sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm restart
>
> If I'm guessing right. That should get you a lightdm login page. And
> hopefully actually logging in will work from there. If not we're
> probably back to Ted's idea that there's some setting in your user
> account. We can probably traack it down with logs or something. Maybe
> /var/log/lightdm
>
> --
> sam
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