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LightDM needs dbus running? If doing:
root #rc-update add xdm defaultAlso need to have done:
root #rc-update add dbus default- 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:
root #useradd -r -d /var/lib/lightdm-data/lightdm -s /bin/nologin lightdmThen 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
- ebuild should do this, but no bug #563564 --Cronolio (talk) 12:56, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
- I completely agree with Cronolio , this is a step the ebuild should perform, just as SDDM creates the sddm user at install time. I'll see if I can elevate this. For the present, it is good to add this information to the wiki page since it's a Gentoo-specific setup instruction until bug #563564 is closed. --Maffblaster (talk) 22:54, 3 April 2018 (UTC)