[LightDM] user list empty

Lothar Brendel
Tue, 05 Feb 2019 18:02:11 -0000

Dear all,

can someone shed some light onto the building of the user list?

In my case (using lightdm 1.26.0), the function common_user_list_get_instance()
returns an empty list, which in turn causes the lightdm-gtk-greeter to fail
knowing the user's home directory, which in turn prevents the user's
chosen session from ~/.dmrc being read.

Under which circumstances is the user list supposed to be empty? Maybe in the
case of "greeter-hide-users=true" being configured?

Kind regards
	Lothar