11.2 - Hiding Auto Login Window

Hi All,
With openSUSE 11.1 and SLES 11 I was able to hide the autologin window by doing the following:

Yast2 > System > /etc/sysconfig editor >
Then within “/etc/sysconfig editor”:
Desktop > Display Manager > DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN = user

My user account does autologin as it should.
However, the autologin is displayed.
This screen shows the login window, the default SUSE green background and a bottom panel. Even if it only shows for a few seconds (and then goes away by itself), it is quite annoying as it ignores my current theme and no bottom panel.

Is there another way to go around this? Or could this be a bug since it worked fine for openSUSE 11.1 and SLES 11?

I’m using an Intel Atom N270 (945GSE + ICH7) with Intel GMA 950 type of system.

Thank you for any help.

If someone knows what file I can manually edit to edit the login window/screen like…

  • Removing the background (use a solid color)
  • Edit the actual login panel (like hiding the suse logo and such).

Any help would be grateful…

Cheers.

I might have been able to help if I had the slightest idea what you were on about:)
Mind, I never use auto login.

I do see a couple of things:

You’re talking about the autologin screen. There’s no such thing. If you select AUTOLOGIN for a user, the KDM / GDM login screen should not be visible at all. If there’s no user configured for AUTOLOGIN, the KDM/GDM login screen should be displayed.
Don’t know what you did exactly. Please post contents of /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager.

Hi,
Thanks for the reply.

Yes, the content of displaymanager is identical to what I used in suse 11.1… so no idea why that autologin did show up…

I asked the Gnome bug community and this was their response:
Seems like a openSUSE/SLES bug. DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN is not an upstream
configuration variable. To enable autologin, add:

[daemon]
AutomaticLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLogin=your-username

to /etc/gdm/custom.conf

Presumably, your distribution is setting up DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN to use
timed login instead of automatic login, or is shipping an old version of gdm
where automatic login is implemented as a 0-timeout timed login.

My displaymanager file is this:
DISPLAYMANAGER=“gdm”
DISPLAYMANAGER_REMOTE_ACCESS=“no”
DISPLAYMANAGER_ROOT_LOGIN_REMOTE=“no”
DISPLAYMANAGER_START_XSERVER=“yes”
DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER_TCP_PORT_6000_OPEN=“no”
DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN=“user”
DISPLAYMANAGER_PASSWORD_LESS_LOGIN=“no”
DISPLAYMANAGER_AD_INTEGRATION=“no”
DISPLAYMANAGER_SHUTDOWN=“auto”

DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER=“Xorg”

I did what the Gnome bug community mentioned, but that did not help…

Thoughts?

Cheers.

Same issue with KDE … hunting and hunting around for a solution.
It works when you first install, but if it ever gets fiddled,
you cannot get autologin to work again until you re-install. :frowning:

/etc/sysconfig> egrep ‘^[A-Z]’ displaymanager

DISPLAYMANAGER=“kdm4”
DISPLAYMANAGER_REMOTE_ACCESS=“no”
DISPLAYMANAGER_ROOT_LOGIN_REMOTE=“no”
DISPLAYMANAGER_STARTS_XSERVER=“yes”
DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER_TCP_PORT_6000_OPEN=“no”
DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN="********"
DISPLAYMANAGER_PASSWORD_LESS_LOGIN=“yes”
DISPLAYMANAGER_AD_INTEGRATION=“no”
DISPLAYMANAGER_SHUTDOWN=“auto”
DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_VGA=""
DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_auto=“1024x768_60 64.11 1024 1080 1184 1344 768 769 772 795 -HSync +Vsync”
KDM_USERS=""
KDM_GREETSTRING=""
DISPLAYMANAGER_KDM_THEME=“SUSE”
DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER=“Xorg”

Rebooting did not fix the problem. However, after a good nights rest, my system booted up into my logged in desk top. I guess it was tired. rotfl!