Autologin

Ivan

Hi! I have installed ubilinux-3, and now I need to make autologin for KODI (autostart). The problem is that the checkbox for "Do not ask password on startup" (actually, I do not know the right sentense, because I am using russian language) is not active in the properties of users. What should I do to make auto-login? Thx.

Björn Reichert

Change the following file:

sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

...
#autologin-guest=false
autologin-user=USERNAME
autologin-user-timeout=0
#autologin-in-background=false
...

Ivan

It works! Thank you Björn very much!

dennis

I've used following lines to get the same setup (I used SSH but it does not matter)

clean ubilinux install

sudo systemctl disable gdm
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common -y
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/xbmc-nightly
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kodi -y
sudo adduser --disabled-password --disabled-login --gecos "" kodi
sudo usermod -a -G cdrom,audio,video,plugdev,users,dialout,dip,input,netdev kodi
sudo nano /etc/init.d/kodi

---

#! /bin/sh

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: kodi
# Required-Start: $all
# Required-Stop: $all
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: starts instance of Kodi
# Description: starts instance of Kodi using start-stop-daemon and xinit
### END INIT INFO

############### EDIT ME ##################

# path to xinit exec
DAEMON=/usr/bin/xinit

# startup args
DAEMON_OPTS=" /usr/bin/kodi-standalone -- :0"

# script name
NAME=kodi

# app name
DESC=kodi

# user
RUN_AS=kodi

# Path of the PID file
PID_FILE=/var/run/kodi.pid

############### END EDIT ME ##################

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

set -e

case "$1" in
start)
echo "Starting $DESC"
start-stop-daemon --start -c $RUN_AS --background --pidfile $PID_FILE --make-pidfile --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
;;
stop)
echo "Stopping $DESC"
start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile $PID_FILE
;;

restart|force-reload)
echo "Restarting $DESC"
start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile $PID_FILE
sleep 5
start-stop-daemon --start -c $RUN_AS --background --pidfile $PID_FILE --make-pidfile --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
;;
*)
N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac

exit 0

---

sudo chmod a+x /etc/init.d/kodi
sudo dpkg-reconfigure x11-common
"anyone"
sudo /etc/init.d/kodi start
# if no error
sudo update-rc.d kodi defaults
sudo reboot

have fun !!!

Mircea Bogdan

@laandennis i tried this but kodi wont boot , i just get "Starting kodi" if i run "sudo /etc/init.d/kodi start".

might be because i am missing kodi.pid from /var/run. [strike]How did you install kodi?[/strike] do you have that file there? Myself I have not instaled kodi, it is included in the latest release of ubilinux. tnx