you won’t believe it – but your password is NOT required. all you have to do is find “#autologin-user” and put your “autologin-user=username” into it and <- UNCOMMENT autologin-user-timeout=0. reboot. works. uname -a; # tested with Linux debian 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 […]
aka the Debian based bloatware: GNU Linux Debian is usually (try console AND graphical setup) straigh forward easy to setup can deal with as little RAM as 512MBytes Ubuntu server WITHOUT a desktop already uses 600MBytes of RAM #wtf so […]
(checkout vnc section of this article) if one gets problem connecting with error message: “x11vnc error: socket: Address family not supported by protocol (97)” then probably ipv6 needs to be disabled on client (and even if it is not used, […]
In General: while a update/upgrade between major releases in theory is always “possible” – i realized it comes with a lot of problems. A complete reinstall “from scratch” is probably always the cleaner approach. apt-get dist-upgrade; # fails miserably because […]
vim /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf [SeatDefaults] #xserver-command=X #xserver-layout= #xserver-config= xserver-allow-tcp=false #xdmcp-manager= #xdmcp-port=177 #xdmcp-key= greeter-session=lightdm-greeter greeter-hide-users=true #greeter-allow-guest=true #greeter-show-manual-login=false #login with LXDE as default (default xSession) user-session=LXDE #allow-guest=true #guest-session=UNIMPLEMENTED session-wrapper=/etc/X11/Xsession #display-setup-script= #greeter-setup-script= #session-setup-script= #session-cleanup-script= #autologin-guest=false ###################### > CHANGE THIS LINE TO THE USER THAT SHOULD […]