Greetings,
Today's behavior, when you log out of autologin mode, is to give you a
standard greeter login (i.e. it takes you out of autologin mode).
I feel it would be more intuitive and useful if it simply logged you
back in again with a fresh desktop. This matches the sort of use we'd
anticipate in a cyber-cafe/kiosk type environment, for example.
Does anybody feel that today's behavior is useful, rather than a bug?
If the current behavior is useful, does anybody know a way to get the
behavior I was expecting without code modifications to lightdm?
Thanks,
Bob
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/839332 An implementation is very desirable :) --Robert On Wed Dec 10 2014 at 11:27:41 <lightdm.bobd at dfgh.net> wrote:> Greetings, > > Today's behavior, when you log out of autologin mode, is to give you a > standard greeter login (i.e. it takes you out of autologin mode). > > I feel it would be more intuitive and useful if it simply logged you > back in again with a fresh desktop. This matches the sort of use we'd > anticipate in a cyber-cafe/kiosk type environment, for example. > > Does anybody feel that today's behavior is useful, rather than a bug? > > If the current behavior is useful, does anybody know a way to get the > behavior I was expecting without code modifications to lightdm? > > Thanks, > Bob > > > _______________________________________________ > LightDM mailing list > LightDM at lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/lightdm >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/lightdm/attachments/20141210/09926f9e/attachment.html>
At Tue, 09 Dec 2014 17:27:33 -0500 lightdm.bobd at dfgh.net wrote:> > Greetings, > > Today's behavior, when you log out of autologin mode, is to give you a > standard greeter login (i.e. it takes you out of autologin mode). > > I feel it would be more intuitive and useful if it simply logged you > back in again with a fresh desktop. This matches the sort of use we'd > anticipate in a cyber-cafe/kiosk type environment, for example. > > Does anybody feel that today's behavior is useful, rather than a bug?Yes it *very* useful. We have a batch of machines at our public library that boot diskless via DRBL. The default behavour is to log into pre-configured guest accounts after 30 seconds. Most users are library patrons who don't have a personal account and are just surfing the web, including the library's on-line card catalog (actually regional library card catalog), or reading E-Mail via webmail, or doing things like printing word processing document, etc. A few people have real user accounts (such as myself as the IT person). So I would log out the guest user, log in as myself, and when *I* am done, I logout, and the machine will (re-)login to the guest account after 30 seconds. This is in fact the typical behavour of gdm (eg GNome). Note: for awhile lightdm *did not* obey the autologin after the first time. This has been fixed in recent versions (including the 10.x series that is part of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS). This partitular *bug* should have been fixed. If you are using an older version of lightdm, you should update it.> > If the current behavior is useful, does anybody know a way to get the > behavior I was expecting without code modifications to lightdm?Set the auto login timeout to 0 (or maybe 1 -- sometimes 0 is used to indicate infinity).> > Thanks, > Bob > > > _______________________________________________ > LightDM mailing list > LightDM at lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/lightdm > >-- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services heller at deepsoft.com -- Webhosting Services
On Wed Dec 10 2014 at 16:35:42 Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>> > Note: for awhile lightdm *did not* obey the autologin after the first time. > This has been fixed in recent versions (including the 10.x series that is > part > of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS). This partitular *bug* should have been fixed. If > you > are using an older version of lightdm, you should update it. >To clarify what Robert is saying here. LightDM only performed *timed autologins* the first time it started [1]. This was changed to perform the timed login every time that you are returned to the greeter in LightDM 1.10.3 and 1.12. So an acceptable workaround might be to enable a timed login with a timeout of 1 second (the minimum allowed). [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1302491 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/lightdm/attachments/20141210/cd5fdce5/attachment.html>
On 12/09/2014 10:35 PM, Robert Heller - heller at deepsoft.com wrote:> At Tue, 09 Dec 2014 17:27:33 -0500 lightdm.bobd at dfgh.net wrote: >> >> If the current behavior is useful, does anybody know a way to get the >> behavior I was expecting without code modifications to lightdm? > > Set the auto login timeout to 0 (or maybe 1 -- sometimes 0 is used to indicate > infinity). >As Robert Ancell pointed out, you need a value of 1, and the recent bug-fix for https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1302491. However, with those caveats this solution works very well for me. Thanks very much! Regards, Bob
On 12/09/2014 10:35 PM, Robert Heller - heller at deepsoft.com wrote:> Set the auto login timeout to 0 (or maybe 1 -- sometimes 0 is used to indicate > infinity). >Does the autologin timeout feature require coordination with the greeter itself? I'm finding that while this works well with unity-greeter, it's not working with lightdm-kde-greeter. The KDE greeter simply blocks authenticating, rather than proceeding to autologin. Does this make sense, or might I be doing something else wrong? Bug in lightdm-kde-greeter? -Bob