Hi - I tried changing to autologin with the cinnamon desktop with no success - how can I do that - thank you

Hi - I went into /etc/lightdm and edited lightdm.config by removing the # in front of autologin and replacing my name in user= That did not work thanks for your reply

make sure the user is member of the group autologin maybe this group has to be created… if you don’t know how - feel free to ask :wink:

[image] Lightdm and autologin Issues & Assistance When installing cachyos, you have the option to select autologin. However that doesn’t seem to work with lightdm and cinnamon. the solution is to do: groupadd -r autologin gpasswd -a “myuser” autologin maybe so…

Lightdm and autologin groupadd -r autologin gpasswd -a “myuser” thank you for your help I will try this

[image] hotte: if you don’t know how - feel free to ask @xuirion : reading correctly is essential :sunglasses:

Change to autologin with cinnamon desktop

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