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I want to know how to make Lubuntu 14.04 restart every two hours, login, and open a program. I am currently stuck on the first part which is to make it login automatically. I have tried changing lightdm.conf and lightdm.conf.d folder, and default.conf to no avail. What should I do?

Byte11
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According to the Lubuntu documentation, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Boot_Install_Login#For_release_12.04_and_on_.28LightDM.29, You will need to create an /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf with these contents: (do this as root) 

[SeatDefaults]
autologin-user=<YOUR USER>
autologin-user-timeout=0
# Check https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/854261 before setting a timeout
user-session=Lubuntu
greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter
Rex
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This solution worked for me. The link (at the bottom) is dead but I got a cached version.

$ sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

Add the following lines replacing myusername with your user:

[Seat:*]
pam-service=lightdm
pam-autologin-service=lightdm-autologin
autologin-user=myusername
autologin-user-timeout=0

To check use:

$ /usr/sbin/lightdm --show-config

Source: http://www.neatlittleinsights.com/htdocs/lubuntu_16.04_autologin.html

dacabdi
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Lubuntu uses LightDM for login, You need to modify the config file. You need to check, where are they:

/usr/sbin/lightdm --show-config

You will see the proper config files under the "Sources" paragraph.

Then you can edit the first one with root privileges (eg. for Ubuntu 17 this is):

sudo nano /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/20-lubuntu.conf

Add your username to the autologin-user line (or add the line if it is not defined). It will look like:

[Seat:*]
user-session=lubuntu
autologin-user=myusername
autologin-user-timeout=0

Save and check again with

/usr/sbin/lightdm --show-config
dessert
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wroadd
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Create an arbitrarily named file in sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/ e.g. 10-autologin.conf.

with the content 

[Seat:*]
autologin-guest = false
autologin-user = USERNAME
autologin-user-timeout = 0

[SeatDefaults]
allow-guest = false

Check with sudo /usr/sbin/lightdm --show-config which will show different settings with a capital letter indicating from with file they come from. In my case, the relevant letter is I:

   [Seat:*]
E  user-session=ubuntu
C  greeter-wrapper=/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm-greeter-session
D  guest-wrapper=/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm-guest-session
H  greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter
G  xserver-command=X -core
I  autologin-guest=false
I  autologin-user=ben
I  autologin-user-timeout=0
I  allow-guest=false
bomben
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Tested in Lubuntu 20.04 -
based on

$ sudo nano /etc/sddm.conf
[Autologin]
User=myusername
Session=Lubuntu
Stefan Krüger s-light
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