#Greeter not show at startup

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timid niche
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After upgrading from LMDE6 to LMDE7, the greeter screen (at VT7) is not shown automatically, but I must press Alt+F7 to switch from VT1 to VT7.

I compared /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log with a working machine and the only difference is in this section:
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Launching process 2004: /usr/bin/X :0 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch
[+0.02s] DEBUG: XServer 0: Waiting for ready signal from X server :0
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Acquired bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Registering seat with bus path /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Loading users from org.freedesktop.Accounts
[+0.02s] DEBUG: User /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1000 added
[+12.77s] DEBUG: Got signal 10 from process 2004

On a working machine, the last line happens automatically (within a second), but on my machine it only happens after I press Alt+F7.

Does anyone have any idea how to fix this ?

young rover
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check the Login Window item in SETTINGS

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take your username out of bottom area if it's currently there

timid niche
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My username is not anywhere in the Login Window Settings.

young rover
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must be some other deeper issue then

warm frost
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I also had a similar issue, not sure if it is LightDM. Do you have a Nvidia graphics card?

At first I switched to GDM3, later I found a solution which sets vt=1 in a lightDM file (I had to uncomment it). That also worked. Can't find the forum post about it. I will get back you when I am at the computer again

young rover
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that reminds me, I believe there is some systemctl command that shows all services set to run. lightdm must be one of those services

warm frost
timid niche
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I have a Nvidia graphics card.

I tested the solution from the forum post. It works, because it makes the greeter run in VT1.

I'm not sure I want to do that, so I might revert the solution and just press Alt+F7 when I start the computer.

warm frost
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Why is it bad to run the greeter with vt1? I actually don't know why but would like to understand it

timid niche
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I don't know if it's bad, but it's non-standard and there could be unforseen side-effects.
So if I'm troubleshooting something in the future, I'll have to remember that I'm running a non-standard configuration.
I also noticed that some messages are only shown on VT1, so I wouldn't be able to read them if there's a GUI on VT1.