Autologon to desktop as user

Troubleshooting
1

Hi,

I had problems with armbian and unofficial jessie images for my Odroid-C2, so I want to try out dietpc.
Everything good so far and easy to setup except that I need to get the odroid to logon to desktop automatically at startup AS USER NOT ROOT.
How do I do that?

thx

2

Which desktop are you using, and whats the user name?

3

the user is “odroid” and the desktop environment is lxde

thx

4

desperately need this
diet-config autologin option should ask for the non-root user login
and its not great to run Desktop as root

sorry for resurrecting this old thread

5

Do you have this file?

/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

If so, you should find the following iine:

#autologin-user=

Remove the # and change it to have your username at the end. As an example:

autologin-user=myusername

If you don’t have that file… sorry, I have no idea.

6

Hi,

We are looking to replace root user with non-root user throughout DietPi. This would resolve this thread, please see here for status:
https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/796

7

Hi folks. So I am following development of this upcoming change however Im wondering if there’s a fix in the short-term that will work for me. :slight_smile: I have several apps (VLC/Chromium) I use that complain about being run as root. :frowning:

What mechanism is “DietPi-AutoStart/2 Desktops: Automatic login (recommended)” using to login root and start X? (file/s to edit?)

Thanx! :slight_smile:

8

Hi,

Try, editing:

/DietPi/dietpi/login

And replace the following entry for startx:

                       #Desktop (LXDE/MATE etc)
                        elif (( $AUTO_START_INDEX == 2 )); then

                               sudo -u dietpi startx

Reboot and test.

9

I’ve tested this method on my odroid c2 with LXDE
Not working for me, I’m getting Xorg error, permission denied and connection refused, maybe I have to add my user to the sudoers list. Will report on this when I have tested.

I did manage to autologin into my normal unprivileged user by selecting login into lightdm in dietpi-config and adding

autologin-user=myuser

to /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

However this results in some weird behaviour:
LXDE starts perfectly, showing the desktop for a second and then turning all black.
To regain visuals I have to select the whole desktop space with the mouse, lxde will reapear after I have selected that screen area.
Workable but not ideal, any suggestion more than welcome.

EDIT: added

myuser=ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

to /etc/sudoers

Desktop appears perfect now, but with error:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Cannot determine user of subject
added LXDE to

NotShowIn=GNOME;KDE;LXDE;

to /etc/xdg/autostart/lxpolkit.desktop
without result :confused: