Raspberry 2 + Ubuntu-Mate + Remote Access RDP, boot into desktop

[lah7]

See this trick for telling LightDM (the login manager) to automatically log in as a user:

Auto-login to the Desktop

To configure the Desktop to auto-login (Ubuntu MATE 14.04) add an autologin-user line specifying your user name to the /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/60-lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf file. For example: [SeatDefaults] greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter autologin-user=srackham Conf files in the /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/ directory are cascaded into the lightdm login manager in alpha order.