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I configured a media-center server running Debian with LightDM, Leapcast and Plex. What I want to accomplish is the following. There should be three LightDM seats, one default seat on which I can login; one seat that runs Leapcast (Chromecast emulator); and one seat that runs Plex Media Center. The last seat should show up as default.

Below you can find the relevant part of my lightdm.conf:

[Seat:0]
vt=7

[Seat:1]
allow-guests=false
autologin-user=media-center
autologin-timeout=0
greeter-hide-users=true
session-setup-script=start-chromecast
vt=8

[Seat:2]
allow-guests=false
autologin-user=media-center
autologin-timeout=0
greeter-hide-users=true
session-setup-script=start-media-center
vt=9

This configuration file enables the three seats, as intended. The problem I am facing now is that the default seat (the seat that is shown after booting) seems to be random, sometimes tty7 show up at boot time (showing the login screen) and sometimes tty8 shows up (which auto-logins and runs Leapcast). Another problem is that when tty7 shows up as default, tty8 is not started automatically.

So what I want is

  1. to be able to choose the default virtual terminal and
  2. make virtual terminal 8 and 9 (Leapcast and Plex) start automatically.
Anthon
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For question #1: LightDM doesn't have that functionality builtin, but you can hack it. In /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf, add a greeter-setup-script. The script can then use sleep (to wait for things to settle) and chvt to switch to whatever virtual terminal you like. (In your case, you'd want chvt 7).

For question #2: I think if you have it switch to tty8 and tty9 before switching to tty7, lightdm will start all three. (You might need a sleep in between the switching to let lightdm get started.)

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