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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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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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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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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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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
#
# NOTE: If you have ...
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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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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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x-server won't start - black screen (after purging *nvidia* files on HD4000 system)
For about three months now I've been trying to fix a problem with my x-server.
The problem occured after lightdm starts as usual. After entering the password to my account the loading-screen showed ...
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LightDM not Behaving as Expexted
I seem to be having some odd lightdm behavioral issues. So far this what I have in my /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf file:
user-session=gnome-classic
greeter-session=unity-greeter
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Can I replace the default login screen for the Pantheon Greeter?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04, and I'd like to know if I can replace the default login screen (Light-DM) for the one used on ELementary OS (Phantheon Greeter). If possible without installing the rest of the ...
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Login loop after update to 12.10 in lightdm and also at console
i recently updated ubuntu to 12.10 and i am stuck with the login window in lightdm.
It just kicks me back to the login screen.
When i try to log in to the console with CTRL+ALT+F1 there is the same ...
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Cannot Login to My Machine Using the *Right* Password
Here are the facts:
I ran some stress-tests last night.
I forgot to reset the logs to minimal.
When I got this morning, I saw that hard drive is full /dev/sda1.
Cleaned up the large file (350GB).
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LightDM: “Failed during authentication”
After entering login info in lightdm, screen blacks out for a second and returns back to the login screen again. However, I'm able to login through TTY and gdm without any problem.
As the log file at ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 unable to login. The username appears but the image disappears. Lightdm problem?
I have been using Ubuntu 12.04 for some time but recently it has crashed and hen I restarted I cant login. I am unable to move my mouse pointer , cant login , and user name appears but user image ...
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LightDM freezes at first startup
Nearly every time I bootup my Ubuntu I come to the login screen. But instead of showing me the wallpaper from selected account, I just see the default purple background with those white dots on it. ...
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xubuntu no longer loads desktop after successful login (upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10)
I get the Lightdm login prompt but for some reason upon successfully login the screen goes black it and drops me back to the lightdm prompt (the desktop never loads).
Anyone know how I might be able ...
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Jumping Login Box after Lighdm Multiple Monitor workaround
So I used this workaround to sort my resolution at the login screen when using multiple monitors with Lightdm.
#!/bin/bash
XCOM0=`xrandr -q | grep 'VGA1 connected'`
XCOM1=`xrandr --output LVDS1 ...
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Need restart lightdm at every startup - console login screen
Everytime I boot up my ubuntu 12.10, I get a black console screen.
I need to login in tty, and restart lightdm : sudo service lightdm restart
Then the GUI lightdm login screen appears as expected.
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Desktop crash after login [closed]
My Ubuntu desktop crashes with segmantion fault after login. It is happening with every user and every desktop enviroment. The output of the command startx in tty2 is shown in the screenshots. And the ...
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Login takes very long, annoying repaints once a minute when logged in: How to troubleshoot?
I am suffering from a strange problem with my Gnome Shell in Ubuntu 12.10.
The login takes very long (> 30 sec), with a blank screen.
In Google Chrome and Thunderbird (and perhaps in other ...
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Can't login after forced shutdown
I am on ubuntu 12.04 and forced a shutdown (hardware switch). Now I can't login anymore. In particular, after entering my password I get sent back to the login screen. The error message is to fast for ...
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Quantal Upgrade: Can't log in
I've already been through a number of threads, so I'll summarize my situation and my attempts so far:
When I get to lightdm or gdm, I enter my information then get returned to lightdm or gdm. I use ...
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Cannot log into admin account
I saved a command that would hide the accounts other than the admin into the lightdm file and it chose to keep an "other" account for which I don't have the password.
I cannot open the terminal from ...
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How do I speed up initial login?
The initial login on my Ubuntu 12.04 machine can take anywhere from 45 seconds to two minutes. If I log out, then log back in again, the login time takes between 4 and 7 seconds.
How can I find out ...
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How can I login to lightdm with password for fingerprint-enabled user after 12.10 upgrade?
Sorry for the long question.
I have a laptop with ubuntu quantal 12.10, a fingerprint scanner, and a few active user accounts. When the machine boots up to lightdm, I get a prompt toenter my ...
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Unable to log in to my account
This is weird,I was reading some blog and I found that I can manually start GUI by issuing this command sudo startx,so I did that.Now I'm unable to login to my user account.
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How do I disable network connection at prelogin?
--- This question is related to Ubuntu 12.10, since previous versions did not connect to network before login ---
I had a bad boot today: the Ubuntu screen was blocked at startup time, after a green ...
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How to log in by typing username & password on 12.10? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I require users to also enter their usernames upon login?
When I was using Ubuntu 12.04, I had an option on that placed a box on the login screen that would ...
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Updated: Remote login in LightDM and GNOME Shell
After I installed GNOME Shell, the option in LightDM for remote access ("remote login") disappeared. What should I do to restore the option?
Original untranslated version:
Al instalar GNOME Shell ...
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Ubuntu GUI crash when LightDM enters, unable to login
This issue happened spounteniously, i don´t know what could have cause it as i wasn´t using the PC when it happened. I ruled out any messing around with the setting as the user doesn´t know how to ...
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Why is user “lightdm” trying to log into my SBS 2003?
I have 7 Ubuntu desktops connected to a SBS 2003 using Centrify.
I have a rather weird scenario, whereby a user with the name lightdm is trying to log into our server, possibly automatically. I ...
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12.04 started in low graphics mode, couldn't fix [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to fix “The system is running in low-graphics mode” error?
I just restarted my computer and went into low graphics mode. After some attempted fixes (using all the ...
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Can only log-in through shell/terminal after doing dist-upgrade on ubuntu 12.04, can only connect to internet using phone modem through bluetooth PAN
I have 2 desktop environments installed, i'm using the x-swat version of nvidia drivers
which also got upgraded after doing "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade". Now i can only log-in using the terminal. tried ...
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Desktop cannot start Gnome Classic after uninstalling Nvidia driver
I have installed gnome-shell to 12.04, then I installed graphic driver from Nvidia's sites. But my screen resolution cannot recognized 1080 and showed 640x480(4:3) mode, so I decided to un-install the ...
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How to disable guest session ONLY from login screen?
I DO WANT:
To be able to select a guest session from the user menu when logged in to my administrator account in case someone needs to use my computer.
I DO NOT WANT
Someone to be able to turn on ...
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Multiple Users, Single Workstation, 1 home folder (Can this be achieved, if so how?)
I am setting up a single workstation (kiosk) in my local library for a team of genealogy researchers (approx 12-14). I plan to use Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as the OS.
Each user must have a unique user ID ...
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How could I customize LightDM to load some Custom code I made?
I've written a code in C++ for a bio-metric lock which I want to add to the log in screen beside the password.
Any idea from where should I start?
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How to re-enable a disabled standard user account?
Disabled a standard user account but did not opt to delete files. Later, tried to enable the account. At that time, a password had to be selected so entered a different one from the earlier one. Now, ...
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Default login screen gone, how to revert?
i just installed 12.04 and was playing around, i dont remember what i did, now after one logout beautiful default login screen has changed into gray area, help needed
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Login crash loop
After about the second/third batch of updates on a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04, I end up getting stuck in an infinite login loop: I enter my password, screen goes black and shows me the end of the ...
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Login Does Not Continue
I have a problem in our computer; we just upgraded our system from ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04. The problem is that we could not login as another user or lets just say it only show black screen everytime we ...
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How to enable the “Other User” login in ubuntu 12.04 if the userid I want to use isn't listed on the login screen?
How can I enable the "Other User" option for the login manager in ubuntu 12.04? This was available in older versions of Ubuntu for use in logging in with a user-id other than those listed on the login ...
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Login Manager does not have a selection for other user
I have a problem with the login manager of ubuntu 12.04, it does not have a selection to login another user; instead it only allows administrator and guest.
Can you help me with this problem?
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Login screen ubuntu 12.04 not showing user's desktop
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 (x64) and was really enjoying it, but it was a little too slow on my machine, so I've reinstalled with the x32 version (hopefully that terminology's correct). The only thing I ...
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Why does this file not play as the startup sound?
I downloaded a 3.9MB song (.mp3) and converted it to (.ogg) with this command
ffmpeg -i desktop-login.mp3 desktop-login.ogg
The file size of the converted file was 23.1MB then I copied it to ...
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I Can't get past the login screen in 12.04 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
User login cycles
it just keeps asking for my password, taking it and going right back to asking for the password. The password is correct, and it will identify an ...
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How to change Unity's default login screen to allow users to type in their logins and passwords?
Installed Pangolin 12.04 X64 I would like to change the login screen. The default screen let's you choose the user by scrolling which can be a nightmare if you have a lot of users. I just want the ...
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How do I return to default wallpaper on login screen in LightDM?
With the change to 12.04 came the new feature of having the login screen matching the selected user's wallpaper. It's a cool feature, but not for everyone. I'd like to go the other way and go back to ...
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How to programmatically log-in a user remotely
How do I programmatically and remotely (using SSH) log-in a user so that the lightdm login screen closes and loads the user's desktop as thought they had physical typed in their username and password?
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