- Edit as superuser the lightdm configuration file:
gksu leafpad /etc/ligtdm/lightdm.conf
- Immediately under [SeatDefaults] add the following lines:
autologin-guest=false autologin-user=YourUserNameHere autologin-user-timeout=0 autologin-session=lightdm-autologin
So for Xubuntu, lightdm.conf should read something like this:
[SeatDefaults] autologin-guest=false autologin-user=YouUserNameHere autologin-user-timeout=0 autologin-session=lightdm-autologin user-session=xubuntu greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter
- Reboot.