Questions tagged [gdm]
GNOME Display Manager (GDM) is a program which provides Ubuntu GNOME's graphical login screen.
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How do I access console from GDM ? (wayland)
When on GDM login screen, Ctrl+Alt+F3 ... F7 does not work.
After logging into GNOME desktop, then Ctrl+Alt+F1 will bring me to GDM, F2 back to GNOME, and F3 to F7 to a TTY terminal.
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How to disable GDM from being automatically started?
After Ubuntu Server 12.04 installation, I installed Xubuntu just to have a minimal GUI:
sudo apt-get install x-window-system-core
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends xubuntu-desktop gparted
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How to change the screen resolution for the GDM login screen?
I use a login list with faces and the icons and text are tiny in GDM. Is there an easy way to change the resolution of the login screen? I'm currently using 10.04 Lucid.
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Cannot Switch Terminal Ubuntu 18.04
Since I installed Ubuntu 18.04, I can not switch to tty3-7 from the login screen. Until Ubuntu 17.10, this worked perfectly using Ctrl+Alt+F3, F4, .. both from login screen and from user sessions. ...
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How do you add a new window manager to the gdm menu?
So, I've been having trouble finding a definitive answer on how to do this. I've compiled and installed a window manager that is not available in the ubuntu package repositories, and now I'm ...
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16.04 - boot stops at "A start job is running for Hold until boot process finishes up(time/no limit)
I have ubuntu 16.04 LTS running on my Pentium E2180 , 1GB RAM computer, with a 120GB SSD. I had recently installed gnome-shell, to try it out , and I got an option asking me to choose between gdm3 and ...
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Remove blur effect on lock-screen
I have a slideshow running on my desktop (which is stored in ~/.local/share/shotwell/wallpaper/wallpaper.xml) and which also is shown in the lock screen.
Since 20.04, there is a blur effect on the ...
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How do I change gdm3 login screen resolution?
The login screen was fine on first boot with Nouveau but when I installed nvidia-381 from the graphics-drivers ppa and rebooted my login resolution is extremely high making the font and ui really ...
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How can I remove "Ubuntu Netbook Edition" option from the GDM session menu?
I was trying out Unity and then I uninstalled it but there is still an Ubuntu Netbook Edition option in the GDM session list. Accidentally clicking on that causes the user to log in to a broken ...
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Why does GDM run on TTY1 and gnome-shell on TTY2? [duplicate]
I am running Ubuntu Gnome 16.10 with gnome-shell 3.20.4.
I usually see my graphic interface run on TTY7. But now (new install) I see GDM run on TTY1 and my graphic interface on TTY2. Why GDM and gnome-...
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Ubuntu 18.04 stuck in login loop with missing .Xauthority file
My computer running Ubuntu 18.04 is stuck in a login loop. I am using lightdm as my display manager, but trying to switch to gdm3 didn't fix the problem (I was still stuck in a login loop).
I have ...
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Ubuntu 17.10: Disable user list in GDM
I have the following system:
$ lsb_release -a
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 17.10
Release: 17.10
Codename: artful
$ gdm3 --version
GDM 3.26.1
I would like to disable ...
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On screen keyboard malfunctioning on login screen
The problem is the login screen is divided into two showing a onscreen keyboard like thing in the left side and the same magnified in the other side. Also it is giving the error message as /usr/lib/...
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How do I set up automatic login?
How do I get 10.04 (Lucid) to log me in automatically on each reboot?
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Ubuntu 16.10 Mouse cursor stays in upper left corner
After crashing my Ubuntu 16.04 with installing nvidia drivers I installed Ubuntu 16.10
However my cursor is not moving anymore. It stays in the upper left corner. It is moving invisible (detected ...
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GDM session list borked
I must have done something especially stupid, but I observe the following behavior:
When I start gdm, I see the "Warning: unable to load /etc/gdm/custom.conf: file not found" message.
My GDM session ...
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Change Ubuntu's purple login screen to GNOME 3.36's
My login screen on boot is Ubuntu's purple login screen. On suspend, the login screen is GNOME's new one, with the blurred desktop bg.
How can I get rid of Ubuntu's and only have GNOME's?
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How can I remove Accessibility icon GDM3 (Login Screen)
I want to remove Accessibility" icon on GDM3 login screen.
Google cannot help me with this.
How I can do this?
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How to load graphical display manager when booting?
The thing is my Ubuntu 11.10 does not boot properly, each time I try to boot, the Ubuntu logo appears for a brief time, a very small loading happens, then a black screen appears with things like the ...
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How to enable autologin but still require password
I am running Ubuntu GNOME 14.04, using gdm display manager and gnome-shell environment and I need to achieve the following behaviour: after boot, a selected user is automatically logged in, but a ...
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How to configure splash screen after plymouth
I have configured my splash screen for plymouth - and it works perfectly. I've also configured the display manager (I'm using gdm). In between these two I get a very brief splash screen - a kind of ...
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Two different login screens on Ubuntu 18.10!
So i installed Ubuntu 18.10 fresh install and i did have the normal new login screen of ubuntu gdm3. Ive been downloading gnome themes and i noticed after i did everything(idk if its from installing ...
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How to disable all GUI elements and boot to command prompt
Cross post from Serverfault
I have a laptop I'm running as a file server, which is running Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop. Now that summer heat is here, and because I love the environment, I'm look for all ...
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Black screen after login 18.04
After login into my main account, I get a black screen that lasts up to an hour after which the desktop will usually load and works like normal.
zany130@andres-X470-AORUS-ULTRA-GAMING
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GDM killed on startup
In order to fix a sound issue, I'd completely removed all PulseAudio packages, which removed several additional packages which I hadn't kept track of.
I have since added back several packages that ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 crashes with EXT4-fs error and systemd-journald
Oct 22 Update:
I changed my SSD two weeks ago from LITEON CV3-8D256 to Samsung 970 Evo Plus, and the problem described below hasn't happened since then. I suspect the problem was due to the ...
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How to use custom ~/.xsession with gdm3 in Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic?
I upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04 and can no longer choose my custom ~/.xsession in the session menu in gdm3 or lightdm. If I use xdm as the login manager my ~/.xsession runs, but then I have other ...
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How to change background color of pop out menu of the top bar of Ubuntu 18.04 lockscreen and unlockscreen?
I would like to change the background color of the pop out menu of the Top Bar in the lockscreen and unlockscreen of Ubuntu 18.04 (using GDM). It appears when I clicked the "power, sound, network" ...
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Set GDM3 to blurred version of current background
I was wondering if there is a way to make GDM3's background a blurred version of the Administrator's current background? I am running Ubuntu 20.04. Someone please help me to do this. I accept ...
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Changing the login screen design? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I change the login screen theme?
How do I change how the login screen looks in Ubuntu 11.04? I want to change both the background and the design of the grey rectangle (...
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Is there a way to make Ubuntu 18.04 login screen dark themed?
I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 using Communitheme, managed to make it dark within the desktop environment; the Nautilus is dark, the menus are all dark and browsers are also respectively dark themed. Everything ...
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No login screen after Ubuntu 18.04 update
After the upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.04.1, when booting instead of going from grub menu to the purple login page, it goes directly to tty1.
The current kernel is 4.15.0-33 and I've already tried ...
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How do I get back the Unity login screen after installing gnome-core?
I installed gnome-core and now I have an ugly login screen. I want to reset or delete gnome-core and re-install the Unity login screen, or just switch back to LightDM. Is there any way to do it easily ...
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Login Loop on Ubuntu 18.04.1
I am a beginner Linux user and have been using, as mentioned, Ubuntu 18.04.1 for about three months. So far, since I know I lack sufficient experience, I have avoided messing with anything tricky or ...
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Can't switch to gdm3 using sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm3
I was looking for a way to switch to gdm3 from lightdm, when I found this answer.
So I tried to apply it, and entered sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm3, then a selection screen appeared with 2 options: gdm3 ...
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How do I disable GDM and Graphical User Selection?
The new Ubuntu features a completely unkillable GDM. Is there a way to disable it?
It is not enabled in services , the GDM startup script is deleted, it is removed from update.rc but it still starts ...
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How I can change the GDM login screen wallpaper?
How I can change the GDM 3.6 Wallpaper? I dont mean the desktop background, but the Wallpaper at the login (GDM 3.6).
Thanks
Thank you for your answer,
I know exactly what you mean. Recently I had ...
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Why use a Display manager?
I'm currently trying to free as much memory as possibile because I'm using my laptop for scientific simulations. One of the things I made is disable gdm and using login+startx to start GNOME session. ...
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Ubuntu 17.10 is not running Wayland
I am experiencing some strange problems in Ubuntu 17.10. At the login screen I am missing the small icon that allows changing between X and Wayland. In fact, the default installation is running X and ...
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Set a different passwords for unlock and sudo [duplicate]
I am running a single-user Ubuntu install.
When I enter the password to unlock my screen after suspend/timeout, it is the same password I use for sudo - my user password. Is there any way for me to ...
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Starting a guest session from the login screen
I was wondering what is the best way to start the guest session from the login screen (GDM).
Currently, I created a new user called 'ubuntu-guest' (has to be something other than 'guest'). Then added ...
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Change the delay that occurs after entering an incorrect password in the gdm3 login-screen?
I am very impatient, when I unfortunately mistype my login-password on my laptop (Ubuntu 20.04), I don't want to wait three seconds to retry. (A delay of 0.3 seconds would be enough to prevent ...
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Can't lock screen with shortcut on Ubuntu 20.04 gnome
In shortcuts i have Super + L for locking screen. But on pressing it - nothing happens. In syslog:
gsd-media-keys[1979]: Couldn't lock screen: Cannot invoke method;
proxy is for the well-known name ...
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Which display manager is used by default in Ubuntu GNOME 16.04?
I can't find this information, and while trying to install the nvidia drivers for my laptop, I got a message explaining that I had 2 display managers installed, and that seemed strange.
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How to keep graphical session running in 17.10 when external screen is turned off?
On Ubuntu 17.10 using Nvidia Quadro M2000, when the (external) screen stops consuming the DisplayPort data stream (either because the screen is turned off or a different input is chosen on the screen ...
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How do I recover when Compiz crashes?
Often compiz will crash and leave the keyboard useless. Normally I drop to the console and restart GDM.
Is there a solution where I can start Compiz back up without losing everything in the current ...
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No way to choose wayland in GDM using UbuntuGNOME 17.04
I am trying to get wayland running using UbuntuGnome 17.04 with nvidia-381 installed using the graphics-drivers ppa and a Geforce 1050TI card.
Using older Ubuntu versions I was able to select between ...
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How to Change Ubuntu 21.10 GDM background to a Image or to a Color
How to Change Ubuntu 21.10 gdm background to a Image or to a Color.
Below Pic is of Ubuntu 20.04 GDM Login Screen
Is there a way similar to this post which is for Ubuntu 20.04 How do I change login ...
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How to diagnose/stop gdm-x-session spamming syslog
[Note: this is similar to issue #418 in the gnome gitlab but it happens to me constantly and I'm not running Evolution. I filed this there too, but gnome 3.28.2 is no longer supported there.]
I'm not ...
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Keyboard layout reverts at every boot
I am using 12.10 with Gnome 3. I changed LightDM to GDM. When I boot up keyboard layout changes to default US layout. When I add another layout to end of list at Region settings my selected layout ...
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