LightDM (Lightweight Display Manager) is a Display Manager for the X.org X server.
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Downgraded Nautilus to 3.4, Wallpaper in Greeter won't update
I did some research and it says the /var/lib/AccountsService/user/ is updated by Nautilus instead of gnome-settings. I recently downgraded to Nautilus 3.4 instead of 3.6, and it is no longer doing ...
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no upper right icons with Ubuntu 12.10 and lightdm
I have a Ubuntu 12.10 server running in which I have installed lightdm. Now lightdm can boot and I can log in, but when I see the screen, I don't see ANY top right icon. So I cannot logout I cannot do ...
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LightDM doesn't appear after login
I have got following problem: after login LightDM doesn't appear. Before login the user-choose screen works fine. I can see only my wallpaper. Also I can run terminal (by ctrl+alt+t) and other and ...
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Is it possible to call lightdm without logout?
So I'm making a video tutorial about ubuntu, but my VirtualBox wont load lightdm, and I would like to show it in the video.
is there a way of calling it from My installation of Ubuntu without ...
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nvidia-frickle with hybrid chipset is now over finally? [closed]
no question - linux-headers have to be installed first suiting to your installed kernel.
in case of hybrid-chipsets like CUDA with Optimus this package does NOT work:
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-310.51.run
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Login Screen/Background Change? (kubuntu)
I have Kubuntu 13.04 (last version) and lightdm
I want to change my login screen background (not my wallpaper after I type my password. I'm talking for the image you see WHEN you type your password).
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Xmonad Xsession
My user level: noob-ish, so please bear with me
I'm running 12.04 LTS. I have installed and, to some extent, configured xmonad 0.10
The "automagically" created xsession for it works fine as it is, ...
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Change Gsetting with script on Logout
System :
Ubuntu Raring Ringtail (13.04) from fresh installation.
Purpose :
Main : Change gsetting (desktop wallpaper) with script on user logout.
What's I've Done : (carefully read)
I try to stop ...
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Background missing in loginscreen and in guest session.
Yesterday I followed this answer on "How do I add customized wallpapers so they appear in the dynamic unity greeter?" to make my wallpaper appear in the login screen.
But instead of only changing the ...
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Desktop Manager Deleted
I have been purge gnome3-team ppa, but accidentally both of my desktop manager (unity and gnome-shell) also deleted. In Login Screen(lightdm) I entered my password, but get back to login screen again. ...
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Xubuntu: How can I avoid the double-password entry (lightdm then xscreensaver) on user switching?
I'm running Xubuntu raring with lightdm and xscreensaver. Both users on the system have xscreensaver set to lock the screen after n minutes. However, when I click "switch user" (or do gdmflexiserver ...
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Login screen on my desktop error
When I log in my Ubuntu 13.04 account, my login screen still shows up as my desktop background, making my computer slow. Recently, I made some changes when I log in, such as removing both "Guest ...
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Can't switch desktop at login: menu missing
At login there is no icon to get the dropdown menu for selecting the desktop. I am currently using GNOME, but can't switch back to Unity.
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VirtualBox4.2 kills lightdm
I just installed VirtualBox4.2 on Ubuntu 13.04. When I open VirtualBox, all seems well, until I try to create an new VM, at which point, lightdm crashes, and I am forced (eventually) back to the login ...
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Avoid stretching with draw-user-backgrounds / dynamic image? (xubuntu)
The lightdm draw-user-backgrounds method stretches my wallpaper so it looks really ugly. Currently my hack is to set my wallpaper centered, then grab a screenshot, blank out desktop icons in GIMP, and ...
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Upgrade to 13.04, user picture shows up on lightdm. Can I change it?
So, I recently upgraded my Xubuntu to 13.04, and afterwards I noticed that there is now a picture of me on the lightdm login screen. I have no idea where this picture came from, I don't remember it ...
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cannot click in some windows, ubuntu 13.04 64bit
EDIT: I tryed both, lightdm and gdm. ''sudo restart lightdm'' helps temporarly.
I cannot click in firefox until I start something else e.g. shell.
But than the mouse cannot click anything outside ...
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vnc using lightdm and x11vnc disconnects immediately after valid login
starting with a precise 64-bit server install, I configured the following;
sudo apt-get install lightdm x11vnc
sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
in /etc/init/x11vnc.conf, I placed;
start on ...
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Startup applications can be run on the login screen stack without logging in?
I'm going to set up my computer to be turned on at night and it will automatically start downloading. For security reasons, I do not want to set up Ubuntu to automatically login! the problem is login ...
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is it a bug in lightdm
When I mute the audio volume in lightdm, then log in, I have no audio in my logged in session. if I uncheck the mute check-box, the volume remains muted. The only way I can restore sound is to unmute ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 hangs at login after user password has been changed in recovery mode
I already posted this, but I found out a few new things, so I hope it is ok if I just edit my old post. I am aware that this problem has been discussed several times. However, all the fixes I could ...
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Setting LightDM background from command-line without Unity
When I'm running Unity, I can set the background image with the following command: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri "file://$file". This also changes the background of the ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 possible lightdm bug [closed]
I've updated to Ubuntu 13.04 but I'm having some issues. First I've updated it trough software updater, then this bug appeared so I did clean install, purging root and home partitions too.
So the bug ...
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How do I enable the user dynamic wallpaper in the login screen of Ubuntu 13.04?
Ubuntu 12.04 Unity greeter had introduced the selected user dynamic wallpaper which allowed, when selecting a user from the available users list in the login screen, the wallpaper to change to reflect ...
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Cannot shutdown unless I use tty
On my computer, I noticed a quirk where I cannot shutdown unless I enter tty or logout then shutdown from the users screen. Clicking on the shutdown button either logs me out or causes lightdm to ...
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Don't suspend on login screen - Ubuntu 12.10?
I set my power settings to "Don't suspend" when I close my laptop lid on both battery power and AC. Is there a way to prevent suspend from the login page too? It seems it's taking effect on my account ...
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Certain Xubuntu graphics persist on Ubuntu
I recently installed the Xubuntu desktop environment on my Ubuntu machine. It's nice, but I switched back to Ubuntu as by default desktop environment. But when I change the volume or brightness, the ...
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Problem with lightDM or do not understand upgrade and/or dist-upgrade (13.04) [closed]
I will preface that I am VERY new Ubuntu and linux as a whole.
I have been tinkering with various things in Ubuntu the past couple days namely the apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade commands.
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Unity session freezes and UI disappears on login
I am running Ubuntu 12.10 with lightdm as my default display manager, with the default session set to ubuntu. After logging in through the standard greeter, unity starts up, and looks fine for roughly ...
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hide user from login GUI
If I add a user to hidden-users then they won't show from the GUI user login page?
thufir@dur:~$
thufir@dur:~$ cat /etc/lightdm/users.conf
#
# User accounts configuration
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# NOTE: If you have ...
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Bad Resolution through KVM switch
I added a KVM switch to my setup so I can switch between a Windows laptop and an Ubuntu 12.10 desktop. I'm getting a bad resolution through LightDM. The display is huge and I can see that most of it ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 i have removed lightdm
My problem began when I have restarted my laptop after I have installed a new GUI, I have Ubuntu 12.04 with ATI mobility HD 5470, but all was fine and working good. On my Ultimate Edition 3.4 I have ...
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MythTV “crashing unexpectedly, exit code 127” after installation of older nVidia Drivers
I'm trying to set up an old Dell Dimension 4600 as a DVR using MythUbuntu. The MythUbuntu installed fine, however after I installed the driver for the graphics card, an nVidia GeForce 4 MX (old), the ...
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Can't compile unity-greeter-13.04.1 on Ubuntu 12.04
I downloaded the unity-greeter-13.04.1 from https://launchpad.net/unity-greeter. Now I want to compile it to able to install it on my Ubuntu 12.04. But I face below problems while compiling:
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lightdm creating problem with multiseat configuration with 2 Graphics cards
I have multiscreen setup on my Ubuntu machine with Ubuntu12.10, Intel integrated HD Grahics and NVidia GeForce 210. The lightdm version is 1.2.3.
I am facing two problems on the setup
1) On ...
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Can I reload monitors.xml without restarting LightDM?
I was writing myself a short script to turn off my laptops monitor in order to only use the bigger external monitor, as I don't always want to use Unity GUI. But after turning the laptop monitor back ...
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How can I use custom wallpapers for the login screen?
I recently Installed 12.10 version and I loved it! But the there's something weird with Wallpapers. As long as I use a wallpaper from the /usr/share/backgrounds folder (I use the "appearance" dialog ...
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Lightdm-gtk-greeter's background wallpaper is distorted in Ubuntu 12.04 (How I can correct background wallpaper errors in “lightdm-gtk-greeter”?
Changed my settings into "lightdm-gtk-greeter" to be able to select different languages at login each time I wish.
Everything is fine with my PC. It logins correctly after a while with an exception ...
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Lightdm doesn't work properly
I have gnome installed on my Ubuntu 12.10 and I am using gdm as default display manager. But the greeter for gdm is not working properly and whenever I try to switch back to Lightdm the GUI just ...
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Solved ubuntu 12.04 login returns to login [duplicate]
This is not a resolution issue, I am on a netbook, that has been working fine for years, I have no nvidia graphics, guest user works just fine with the existing graphics and adding a new user has ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 login screen: go directly to user background, not via default
I know I'm being rather picky here, but is there a way to configure lightdm so that when the login screen shows after boot it directly shows the selected user's background, instead of first loading ...
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Mouse and keyboard freezes in lightdm [closed]
After last system update (week ago) I noticed that my mouse and keyboard freezes after boot-up, in the lightdm login screen for 1-2 minutes, so I can't move pointer or type my password.
Although, my ...
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Getting a blue wallpaper screen with no desktop bars
I just got a linus VPS after like 6-7 months. I installed a clean copy of 11.10, and then used this tutorial to install ubuntu-desktop and get a VNC connection going:
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Why does lightdm handel password input different than TTY?
I notice that lightdm handles password input different than TTY (console without GUI).
try create a user with "^" character in password with English (US, with deadkeys) keyboard layout
Login using ...
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Help fixing graphics card driver?
So I managed to fairly severely mess up my graphics card driver. I was trying to install OpenCL using instructions from here: ...
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How to set a specific resolution for lightdm
When I set the display resolution to 1366x768 on my ubuntu 12.10 desktop (which has nvidia-current drivers installed) the next time I boot, I can't see the lightdm login screen (the monitor displays ...
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switcheroo to discrete turns off backlight on laptop screen
AMD cedar/ Intel ironlake hybrid graphics. Custom kernel 3.8.3. Free radeon xorg drivers.
When I switch from integrated to discrete, I do a killall lightdm and X doesn't automatically respawn like it ...
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How can I remove the “GNOME desktop environment” entry from my login screen after uninstalling GNOME?
I installed The GNOME Desktop Environment, with extra components, but I didn't like it, so I uninstalled it. But now at the login screen, besides the password box there's still the button to choose ...
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Custom Ubuntu gets stuck on LightDM
I recently used Ubuntu Builder to customize the Ubuntu Mini Remix 12.10. I added Openbox, and some other stuff.
I also added a guest user so that the LiveCD wouldn't be running root. After this,, it ...
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How to use KDM instead of lightdm in Kubuntu [duplicate]
I need to configure KDM by system settings, because lightDM is not working any more (I don't know why, just stopped working), so, is there any way to do it?
