Lightdm does not start at boot

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Since Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric, LightDM replaces GDM as the default display manager.If you want to manage lightdm you can use Simple LightDM Manager.Currently this tool only supports chaging background and logo (...)Read the rest of Simple LightDM Manager (53 words)

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I upgraded to oneiric. When my machine boots, I get a black console with text messages listing the services that are starting up, and then my machine sits there in that state and lightdm never comes up.

Hello everyone, I'm using xfce in conjunction with lightdm (gtk-greeter).Everything is working thus far except one thing:If I don't set "greeter-hide-users=true" in lightdm.conf, it keeps displaying "lightdm" (uid 620) and "git daemon" (uid 619) as users.I set "minimum-uid=1000" and even "hidden-users=nobody nobody4 noaccess lightdm git"

Hello, I've been using Xubuntu for a month and everything was fine until this morning it failed to start. I tried to make the NumLock on by default by adding the following line:

greeter-setup-script=/usr/bin/numlockx on

to

leafpad/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

On the next boot I get "checking battery state.." and it freezes there.

This is simple guide about enable xdmcp service on Ubuntu 12.04 for user/root remote login.

LightDM the new display manager for Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric, comes to replace the old GDM, LightDM is known as a ligher and more customizable one.With the arrival of Ubuntu LightDM 11.10 Oneiric also came many new mockups, one of them was made ​​famous by Robert Handmaids, a Canonical developer who created a 3D animation of the LightDM.

F18 on an old R40

Originally did an XFCE install.

Installed MATE. Got sick of trying to get lightdm to auto log in.

removed lightdm after installing gdm

gdm would not auto start. Had to log in and launch it manually. Spent a while trying to figure out how gdm starts - could not find it. Searched net / Fedora Forums etc. No joy.

gave up. gdm uses too much memory anyway.

After installing ubuntu on my asus transformer tablet with lightdm + onboard (keyboard) for logging in as normal user, the tablet boot up and could not start lightdm.

As I do not have the accompanying keyboard for the tablet, typing startx is not an option unless lightdm can be started and allows onboard to appear in the screen.

On the other hand, if I ssh into the tablet, I can log in as ro

I'm using Xubuntu installed through Vmware as a "sandboxed" server to host minecraft and also as a linux workstation.

As a minecraft server, I can set up Grub2 to boot straight to the command line interface without starting lightdm.

What I'd like to do is add a menu entry in Grub that allows me to also select booting with lightdm so I can use the GUI when I want to.

Right now, t