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Apr 9, 2015 at 12:40 comment added GKFX OK, I've got LightDM working now. To be honest, the main reason I came here was because I was baffled by /etc/inittab not doing anything; your comment about systemd clears that up nicely. The problem with NoDM, if you're interested, was something permissions-related which meant I had to type my password into a gksu prompt to shutdown the computer. It's still annoying that I need to install a package to do the equivalent of typing startx, but that's life. Thank you very much for your help.
Apr 9, 2015 at 12:32 vote accept GKFX
Apr 8, 2015 at 19:13 comment added Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' @GKFX I don't understand what you're trying to do here. You don't need to change anything in /etc/inittab. For autologin to the graphical environment, install lightdm and edit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf. I can't help you with nodm because I've never used it and “doesn't work properly” is not a useful problem report. If you want autologin in text mode, that's a different question.
Apr 8, 2015 at 18:29 comment added GKFX I've unmarked this as the answer because it doesn't seem to solve the main problem (and nodm didn't work properly). See update to question.
Apr 7, 2015 at 12:36 comment added GKFX Thanks. I've used nodm which is a minimal auto-login display manager.
Apr 7, 2015 at 7:23 vote accept GKFX
Apr 8, 2015 at 18:28
Apr 7, 2015 at 0:55 history answered Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' CC BY-SA 3.0