Talk:LightDM

dbus
LightDM needs dbus running? If doing:

Also need to have done:


 * It appears to be used to communicate with the greeter:
 * http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LightDM/Design#Inter-process_Relationships

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cjmayo (talk • contribs) 4 January 2013 [formatting changed by Maffblaster on 18 August 2015]

lightdm user account setup
Lightdm will allow XDMCP users to reboot and shutdown the host prior to logging in, unless lightdm is run under a different account to root. Here's some instructions on how to set it up under an account called 'lightdm'.

To create the system account use the following command:

Then modify lightdm.conf so that it has the following entry in the [LightDM] section:

greeter-user=lightdm

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pickledpiper (talk • contribs) 3 August 2016

As a first time Gentoo user, it took me a long time to find this lightdm user account setup. It would be nice if this was on the wiki page. I was wrestling with errors thinking something was wrong with xdm and and all I had to do was add a user for lightdm. Jesse m (talk) 13:24, 2 April 2018 (UTC) jesse_m