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Applications - Display Managers - LightDM - Notes

Autologin

Tested on Alpine Linux 3.21.

  1. Archive a copy of the lightdm.conf:
    cp /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.original
  2. Open /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf in vi:
    vi /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
  3. Locate the line:
    [Seat:*]
  4. BELOW that line add:
    autologin-user=USER
  5. Replace “USER” with the login name of the account that should automatically logon.
  6. Restart the computer. It should now automatically logon with the configured user.

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Start VNC server

Tested on Alpine Linux 3.21.

  1. Install tigervnc:
    1. On Alpine Linux: 
      apk add tigervnc
  2. Archive a copy of the lightdm.conf:
    cp /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.original
  3. Open /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf in vi:
    vi /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
  4. Edit below the [VNCServer] block to set it to enabled (enabled=true), remove password (command=Xvnc -SecurityTypes=None), and up the bitdepth to at least 16 (depth=32) to as the default 8 bits are no longer supported:
    --- /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.original
+++ /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
@@ -155,9 +155,11 @@
 #
 [VNCServer]
 #enabled=false
+enabled=true
 #command=Xvnc
+command=Xvnc -SecurityTypes=None
 #port=5900
 #listen-address=
 #width=1024
 #height=768
-#depth=8
+depth=32

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