This fix is courtesy of @oops.

If you are like me and prefer the username to be available in a drop-down on lightdm Here’s what you need to do to allow a username drop-down to appear:


$ cat /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/02_my_user.conf
# Debian specific defaults
#
# - use lightdm-greeter session greeter, points to the etc-alternatives managed
# greeter
# - hide users list by default, we don't want to expose them
# - use Debian specific session wrapper, to gain support for
# /etc/X11/Xsession.d scripts

[Seat:*]
greeter-session=lightdm-greeter

#greeter-hide-users=true
greeter-hide-users=false

session-wrapper=/etc/X11/Xsession

The source article is here.