[mythtv-users] mythbuntu - GDM or lightdm?

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Lindsay Mathieson
<lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:53:37 AM Nick Rout wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Lindsay Mathieson
>>
>> <lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Just upgrading my 11.04 mythbntu box to 11.10
>> >
>> > Which window manager is prefered - GDM or lightdm?
>>
>> neither is a window manager, they are display managers, ie the bit
>> that allows you to log in.
>
>
> Eh, always losing track of that.
>
> Anyway, to answer my own question, LigthDM is the default and it took a bit of
> manual finagling with lightdm.conf to get auto login working correctly as
> well.

Was it an upgrade to 11.10 or a fresh install?

There is aquite a bit on mythbuntu forums about upgrade problems.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1860270&highlight=lightdm

and others