Allow relogin without timeout
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Description
Currently if one sets autologin-user=user and autologin-user-timeout=0, then on logout, lightdm doesn't log the user in again.
With autologin-user-timeout=1 relogin works, but it's not a nice sight to have a one-second "flickering". The nodm maintainer developed a lightdm greeter just to work around this issue!
Maybe relogin=1 or autologin-user-timeout=-1 could be used to implement relogin without showing the greeter? GDM and SDDM do have support for relogins without timeouts.
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Research direction
No source files, tests, or entry points are named. First clarify the intended relogin behavior and how it should interact with autologin-user-timeout=0, then trace the existing logout and autologin flow; done means relogin occurs without displaying a one-second greeter.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100