Change Session In Lightdm

Therefore issue the following in terminal sudo apt update sudo apt install lightdm.

Change session in lightdm.

Stopped light display manager. Next if you already have a display manager installed. So to change the default display manager use this command. Session wrapper is a the command to run for a session.

We have discussed it in detail in the article here. Ubuntu wiki arch wiki debian wiki. Lightdm uses various front ends to draw login interfaces which are usually referred to as lightdm greeters. Use this if you need to do special setup for a user session.

Apr 26 04 46 04 arch systemd 1. After running this command it will list all installed display managers. Apr 26 04 46 04 arch systemd 1. 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.

This command is run as the user and needs to exec the command passed in the arguments to complete running the session. This will teach you how to modify lightdm to choose a default desktop environment theme autologin and even a vnc connection. As lightdm is already available in standard ubuntu repository. Scheduled restart job restart counter is at 5.

Then you must look to switch it. Note the default is lightdm session so you should chain to this if you need to override this setting. 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.