After upgrade Lubuntu to 11.10: Lost auto-logon. Getting worse.
Hi! I upgraded my old Athlon's Lubuntu yesterday to 11.10. It lost its auto-logon. I've been thru umpteen web sites showing how to get it back, and each DIFFERENT technique makes things worse. The last I tried left multiple log-on steps with drop-down menus. I'm afraid to try any more.
Using Nano, I can create the uncommented line "autologin=<my user name>", but whether I click Ctrl+X or Ctrl+O, it only saves default.conf as new files called default.
A "sudo update-alternatives --config lxdm.conf" technique made things even worse, leading to multiple drop-down menus on bootup.
Yipes! Now the system only boots to a blank black screen.
I'm worried about the Ubuntu I have on my main machine. It's due for upgrade, too, but my work there is FAR too critical to waste time with these ridiculous problems.
Possibly you can advise me, instead, therefore, on a Linux distro more suited to me, which doesn't change its various structures and commands every time it's upgraded. I'm too busy to parse thru the multiple, conflicting, tutorials!
Other than that, Ubuntu/Lubuntu are beautiful, fast OS's, which would conquer the world, if only...
Thanks very much for any guidance you can offer!
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