[mythtv-users] What display manager (and window manager) to choose

[Stephen Worthington]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 08:31:34 +0100, you wrote:

>Hello!
>
>I would like to know what display manager and window manager people
>are using.
>
>I used to have a line in /etc/inittab but I think that method
>was deprecated in one Debian update a year or more ago.
>
>I then started to use SLiM and recently changed to LightDM.
>
>For my Debian (Jessie/stable) MythTV system I use XFCE4, but I have
>a problem (with both SLiM and LightDM) that it sometimes fails to
>autologin. It feels like a race condition where it attempts to
>autologin before the window manager is fully started.
>
>So I would be happy if people could tell me what combination of
>display manager and window manager you are using.
>
>It must support autologin but doesn't have to be fancy or anything.

I use Mythbuntu, which uses LightDM and XFCE4.  I have no problems
with autologin.