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LawrieHoltby

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Registered: 2025-02-17

Posts: 13

MX Linux XFCE 23.5 not remembering username on boot

Hi,

My (otherwise excellent) MX Linux XFCE 23.5 with lates Liqurix kernel doesn't remember my user name when rebooted - I'm sure it used to do this. Any help appreciated.

eriefisher

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From: ON, Canada

Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 672

Re: MX Linux XFCE 23.5 not remembering username on boot

You mean you have to create a user everytime you boot or the login manager doesn't show your name by default?

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LawrieHoltby

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Registered: 2025-02-17

Posts: 13

Re: MX Linux XFCE 23.5 not remembering username on boot

You mean you have to create a user everytime you boot or the login manager doesn't show your name by default?

it doesn't remember my username so i have to retype each reboot, annoying as I'm sure it once worked!

eriefisher

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From: ON, Canada

Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 672

Re: MX Linux XFCE 23.5 not remembering username on boot

A quick Google search.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/question … t-username

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LawrieHoltby

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Registered: 2025-02-17

Posts: 13

Re: MX Linux XFCE 23.5 not remembering username on boot

A quick Google search.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/question … t-username

Thanks for trying - I've made those changes and it's still the same!

k3dAR

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2022-07-27

Posts: 110

Re: MX Linux XFCE 23.5 not remembering username on boot

i install MX 23.5 in virtual, and see default behaviour show login screen with selected my username in (popup)menu (so not switched to Other where is also field for type username) and focus on empty field for password... as is here

dolphin_oracle

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Registered: 2015-04-27

Posts: 7

Re: MX Linux XFCE 23.5 not remembering username on boot

this would most likely  have to do with the lightdm configuration, not anything Xfce is doing.

I would check to make sure that the lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf file is not overwriting our usual lighdm config, with also exists under /usr/share/lightdm and is provided by the lightdm-gtk-greeter-mx23 package.

the setting you are looking for is

greeter-hide-users=false

which our theme sets, but can still be overridden by the /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf file.

in any case, probably not an Xfce issue.

Last edited by dolphin_oracle (2025-02-20 21:40:25)