p.s. i might add, i have a laptop where the above solution does work for the initial startup as well.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1243519 Title: since upgrade to 13.10, login screen displays Light Display Manager as its own user Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Since upgrading to Ubuntu 13.10, Light Display Manager has been listed as its own user account on the login screen. I have found a manual workaround on a forum which involves adding user "lightdm" to the list of 'hidden-users' in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf, but this should still be addressed, perhaps through a software patch. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: lightdm 1.8.2-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Oct 23 00:04:07 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-08-31 (52 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-19 (3 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1243519/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
