I just switched from Ubuntu 16.04 to Debian 9 with Gnome 3, and I'm trying to figure out if there is a way to automatically show the password field so I can just go ahead and start typing my password rather than having to click on my name or press enter. I only have 1 user on my laptop, so I don't understand why I have to select that single user to be able to enter the password. Also, even with a use case of multiple users, it would seem more usable if either the last user or a specified high priority user was automatically assumed as the next login candidate after a reboot or a logout.
In the previous version of Debian (which I tried in a VM ahead of time), the password field was exposed by default on startup, assuming you tweaked thusly:
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sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
comment out:
So loosing this usability efficiency functionality seems like a step backwards to me.
Thanks in anticipation.