Change Session In Lightdm

Lightdm is a cross platform x display manager that aims to be fast extensible lightweight and with support for multi desktop.

Change session in lightdm.

Session wrapper is a the command to run for a session. Lightdm is a cross desktop display manager it was built as a relatively light weight and highly customizable alternative to gdm it s developed at canonical by robert ancell and all contributors are required to assign their copyright to canonical through a contributor license agreement that allows proprietarization. Next if you already have a display manager installed. Ubuntu wiki arch wiki debian wiki.

Scheduled restart job restart counter is at 5. Therefore issue the following in terminal sudo apt update sudo apt install lightdm. Apr 26 04 46 04 arch systemd 1. Lightdm uses various front ends to draw login interfaces which are usually referred to as lightdm greeters.

For debian based systems install lightdm by typing sudo apt install lightdm for arch based systems install lightdm by typing sudo pacman s lightdm. This command is run as the user and needs to exec the command passed in the arguments to complete running the session. Sudo dpkg reconfigure some installed display manager in this command replace some installed display manager with one of the display managers installed on your system for example gdm3 lightdm sddm lxdm etc. Then you must look to switch it.

As lightdm is already available in standard ubuntu repository. Change lightdm greeter in ubuntu 20 04. Stopped light display manager. So to change the default display manager use this command.

After running this command it will list all installed display managers. Note the default is lightdm session so you should chain to this if you need to override this setting. This will teach you how to modify lightdm to choose a default desktop environment theme autologin and even a vnc connection.