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I have have set Ubuntu studio 18.04 to not ask for a password at login, but I still have click the login button to get started.

How do I get Ubuntu Studio to auto login and go straight to the desktop on startup?

Kulfy
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Simon Monck-Mason
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  • Did you do it like this: https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/user-autologin.html.en – George Udosen May 11 '19 at 11:36
  • The desktop environment in Ubuntu Studio is Xfce, the same one used in Xubuntu. This answer should do the trick: https://askubuntu.com/questions/530072/how-to-auto-login-in-xubuntu Just be sure to edit the session name to "ubuntustudio" as opposed to Xubuntu, and you're all set. – Erich Eickmeyer May 11 '19 at 18:49

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The above answer wasn't quite correct. The file to edit is /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/60-ubuntustudio.conf.

I added the following to the file as Mook765 sugested:

[Seat:*]
autologin-guest=false
autologin-user=yourusername
autologin-user-timeout=0

I had to use sudo nautilus to gain root privileges. Now working as I'd like.

mook765
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Simon Monck-Mason
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  • It would be nice to see what changes you made to this file, could you please add this information to your answer? – mook765 May 16 '19 at 10:48
  • Apologies. I just edited my post. – Simon Monck-Mason May 16 '19 at 11:44
  • My answer should work as well, I selected the option to automatically login during installation. I guess the file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf didn't exist in your installation, so you edited /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/60-ubuntustudio.conf instead and that works too. – mook765 May 16 '19 at 12:17
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Edit the file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf (if the file doesn't exist, create it), it should look like this:

[Seat:*]
autologin-guest=false
autologin-user=yourusername
autologin-user-timeout=0
mook765
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I had to do one more thing, namely comment out everything in

/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/60-lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf

This was painting the login dialog, leaving me with a box to click to continue. When I commented this out, the auto-login went to the application specified in my startup settings.

17genr
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