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How to enable autologin on MATE. Working on openSUSE, Ubuntu, Raspberry Pi, and others

April 9, 2021 cialu Technology

Lately, we have been working a lot on the MATE desktop environment, it is simple, fast, and fully configurable. Just the way we like it. Among the little things encountered on the road, we have not yet found an easy method to activate autologin regardless of the distribution and the widgets it carries. In cases like this, the terminal and[…]

How to solve ‘Failed to start session’ with LightDM and Xfce

November 22, 2018 cialu Technology

Failed to start session issues with LightDM and Xfce is really annoying. Due to some wrong configuration files, if you install Xfce on top of an Ubuntu Server or if you move away from an old desktop environment for an Xfce session on Ubuntu, you finally get in stuck at the LightDM login screen with no possibility to enter in[…]