mklive: lightdm no longer works about void-mklive HOT 12 CLOSED

Quick question; if I add -C "live.autologin" do I still need the lightdm package and service?

yes, because lightdm starts xfce. if you just had live.autologin, you'd end up at tty1 with a shell prompt

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I cannot reproduce this with an x86_64 XFCE image generated on 20240217 or an image generated just now, in a VM. It showed me the TTY login for a second, then a black screen while lightdm loaded, then it auto-logged into XFCE. Logging out goes to lightdm just fine.

what exact command did you use to generate the image? what hardware is the running on? (especially interested in the graphics card)

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what exact command did you use to generate the image?

The full command is here: https://pastebin.com/jxc0UEDJ

what hardware is the running on? (especially interested in the graphics card)

I have an Nvidia graphics card, although I'm currently testing images in a VM (VirtualBox).

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the service isn't enabled automatically, you need to do that with -S

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you need to do that with -S

Didn't work, sorry. I tried adding -S lightdm but there was no difference.

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lightdm requires dbus, did you enable that?

BTW, by using mklive directly, you're missing some of the things that the xfce images have, because build_x86_images does them

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Thank you, adding -S "dbus elogind lightdm NetworkManager polkitd" did the trick. I suppose that was done automatically in older versions of mklive.

Quick question; if I add -C "live.autologin" do I still need the lightdm package and service?

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I couldn't get lightdm to autologin despite many combinations of live.autologin and lightdm.conf, not sure if this deserves its own issue or if I'm just not doing the proper steps...

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did you put xfce in /etc/lightdm/.session in an include dir?

https://github.com/void-linux/void-mklive/blob/master/dracut%2Fvmklive%2Fdisplay-manager-autologin.sh#L33-L41

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Ok I now have autologin-session=xfce added to the file lightdm.conf, and xfce in /etc/lightdm/.session but the lightdm greeter is still displayed. :(

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look at what build-x86-images is doing. all you need to do is have an include dir with /etc/lightdm/.session containing xfce, and have live.autologin on the commandline. the rest is handled by dracut on boot.

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I think it's working now. The key was removing /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf from the custom root, and only keeping the /etc/lightdm/.session file. As well as passing -C "live.autologin" of course.

Thanks a lot for the help! Much appreciated.

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