Questions tagged [lightdm]
LightDM (Lightweight Display Manager) is a Display Manager for the X.org X server. It is the default X display manager of Ubuntu. LightDM starts an X session and presents the user with a graphical login screen, so the user does not have to issue commands such as `startx` to start the X server
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Switching between users in XFCE / LightDM without locking session
When I was using KDE with KDM it was very simple to switch users. After I logged in multiple sessions I could easily switch by pressing ctrl+alt+f7 and ctrl+alt+f8 and so on. It was seamless because:
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Ubuntu 20.04 Can't get passed login after update
4 days ago, I decided to install the update that "Software and Updates" has been suggesting for a while. After the progress dialog was gone, I closed the laptop lid, expecting it to sleep(...
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How can I stop GDM on Ubuntu 18.04 Desktop in order to install NVIDIA Driver?
In the case of Ubuntu 16.04. I can download the NVIDIA driver run file and then ctrl+alt+F1 and then do the below
sudo service lightdm stop
sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.48.run
I follow on screen ...
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How do I set user background for lightDM login screen?
I am quite lost on how to set user-specific background.
There does not seem to be many resources on this matter.
Setting background from gnome-control-center does not work.
org.gnome.settings-daemon....
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Light Display Manager 1.30.0 won’t start seat0 on Ubuntu 20.04
I’ve been messing around with a fresh Ubuntu 20.04 install on an HP 17 laptop. I was feeling curious and adventurous and installed enlightenment, deepin, and arctica desktops, with the intention of ...
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When installing various desktop environments, how can one prevent user interactions requesting a selection of display managers like LightDM and GDM3? [duplicate]
I have a Bash setup script for Ubuntu. It is intended to be designed to minimise the user interactions needed to get to a fully set up system.
In the script, there might be commands like the following:...
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Use of Yubikey Neo for login 2FA and lock screen
I want to use my Yubikey Neo to login to Ubuntu 14.04. In addition, it would be convinient if the screen is locked automatically everytime I unplug the Yubikey.
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Ubuntu 14.04 update lightdm broken
I think the screenshot explains it better than I can. I'd like to post a helpful bug report on Launchpad, but how do I even explain this?
This seems to have come on as a result of a failed update - ...
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Lightdm not starting on boot
I installed gdm for a while as my display manager, and after removing it, lightdm does not start by itself. I instead have to login to a tty, and run sudo start lightdm.
Running dpkg-reconfigure ...
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Lockscreen on suspend (LightDM)
Currently I'm using LightDM with the lightdm-webkit2-greeter and multiple WM/DM's.
I3, AwesomeWM, Gnome and KDE
My problem is that on auto suspend or closing my laptop lid the screen either wont lock ...
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How do I enable auto-login in LightDM?
I want user foo to auto-login using LightDM (which has been used by Ubuntu since version 11.10). How would I do that?
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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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How can I add a custom python indicator to the unity-greeter login screen?
I've installed a custom indicator called PRIME Indicator and it shows up in the top panel (next to date time etc) after I login.
I would like to show the indicator before login on the unity-greeter ...
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How do I rice my Ubuntu Desktop?
I saw a few of the posts on r/unixporn with beautiful layouts and styled desktops with beautiful icons.
While the only thing I have done is position my dock on the right lol.
I recently had an issue ...
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Fluxbox + lightdm on ubuntu 20.04 running on BBG
I have configured ubuntu 20.o4 LTS for ARM Cortex (BBG) processor, connected LCD. I am trying to configure fluxbox and the lightdm window manager. Fluxbox and lightdm is not showing login window. When ...
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Replace gsd-screensaver-proxy with light-locker
I'm currently using a fork of Antergos web-greeter because I don't like the default. However I can't use the default screensaver because if I lock through that I can simply press Ctrl + Alt + F7 to ...
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Apply display settings to all user accounts?
I spent some time getting my settings correct for multiple monitors, and that is working fine when I am logged in, but is not right at the login screen or for other users.
How do I set the display ...
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Distortion and tearing effect on internal 4k screen (HP elitebook laptop) with gdm/lightdm
I have a weird distortion and flickering effect happening when embedded videos (inside text content) are running in web browsers or when I scroll in any sort of scrollable content (e.g., webpage, ...
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Where is the login screen wallpaper located?
I want to know this because I like the picture used and I'd like to use it elsewhere. Where is the LightDM login screen wallpaper located in Ubuntu 11.10?
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lightdm trying to use non-existent external display
I'm having problems logging in to my X session and/or resuming from a suspend.
Starting about 6 months ago, I started having issues with my desktop manager, lightdm (though I've tried others like gdm3 ...
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How do I stop the GUI (in Kubuntu 21.10)
I need to stop the GUI and access a TTY for the NVIDIA drivers. I found this question. However, when I tried sudo service lightdm stop (or the same with gdm), it said this:
$ sudo service lightdm stop
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mate desktop does not start on my ubuntu 21.10 system (lightdm doesn't start)
I installed ubuntu 21.10 and tried to replace the regular desktop by mate (I add more details below).
The current situation is, that if I boot into my ubuntu system, it displays, that it has some ...
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Lightm gets stuck immediately after login, but slim and xdm seems to work in Xubuntu 20.04
Some background first. I was trying to reduce the power consumption in xubuntu in my laptop , which led me on a trail towards finding which GPU was being used for rendering the display. ( My laptop ...
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Black screen between plymouth and lightdm
I am using Ubuntu 18.04 on a custom ARM-based board. When it boots, I see the plymouth boot screen for two seconds, and then it jumps to a console screen with a blinking text cursor in the upper right ...
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Lightdm(with slick-greeter) only starts AFTER tty login
I recently installed slick-greeter, and have wrestled with various configuration issues, and spent quite some time searching various threads across various distros for the issue I'm seeing.
That is, ...
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Login Greeter takes 20~30 sec (after bootup apparently finished) to appear
I looked into this question among a few others (on and off SO) for a solution.
The upvoted (but not accepted) answer to that question, suggests entropy might be a problem.
I have infact from the ...
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Display manager SDDM doesn't make use of 3rd monitor
I have computer with 2 videocards and 3 monitors attached - 2 to one card and 1 to another one. I run Ubuntu Server with X and I want to use most lightweight display manager as possible. I’m trying to ...
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Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop unless a different user logs in
I'm trying not to make a duplicate of a previous question, but I do have the same problem. I'm using gdm3 and have purged, and reinstalled multiple times. A different user 'test' and sudo startx work. ...
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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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Session is suddenly restarted (Ubuntu 11.10)
I installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my laptop, and from time to time the session is suddenly restarted on its own and I lose all my previous work.
This issue has occurred after different actions such as:
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Restart desktop without losing programs?
I can restart my desktop from a console window (Ctrl+Alt+F1) with this command:
sudo service lightdm restart
This will present a fresh login screen and closes all programs running on the desktop. ...
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dconf - Custom icons are not displayed in the panel menu
The custom icon custom-symbolic.svg is not displayed in the panel menu.
This is a segment of a dconf file:
[org/cinnamon]
app-menu-icon-name='custom-symbolic'
The full path to the file I created is:
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Broke my Linux again! 😅😅😅
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I'm kinda new in the Linux World, so I've been using it for a month now, I'm loving it so far, but can't stop messing around with it lol. I ...
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lightdm crash (once) & thereafter login screen shows "failed to authenticate" - impossible to login
OS: ubuntu 20.04 with lightdm
HW: Raspberry Pi 4B 8GB
History: this system has worked for well over a year without issues.
There was a random crash of the sound system (this has happened before), my ...
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how can I show ldap account on lightdm xfce
I got another problem with ldap account on lightdm greeter. Lightdm greeter could not list ldap user. Therefore, After logging in with LDAP account, I restarted the computer, the LDAP account was not ...
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Remove LDAP users from Lightdm greeter user list
I have default user accounts which are local to my system and I want to show them in a user selection list. This is working.
Recently, I've enabled logins with LDAP. The flow is selecting "Other..." ...
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Struggling configuring LightDM
I've been trying to customize my lock screen for a while now but I'm running some issues now. I' running Ubuntu 21.10. I installed LightDm with "sudo apt install lightdm" but everytime I ...
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Search your computer => "Sorry, there is nothing that matches your search."
Switching from GDM (GNOME Display Manager) to LightDM on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS broke "Search your computer" functionality.
Fix found:
apt install ubuntu-unity-desktop
apt remove gnome-shell
dpkg-...
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Unable to logout from guest session on Xubuntu 20.04
I have Xubuntu 20.04 installed on a couple of my AMD64 machines, and in each case I've edited:
/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-disable-guest.conf
do that it now contains:
[Seat:*]
allow-guest=...
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Dual monitors on login are working in a mirrored mode instead of be handled as extension
I have a laptop and recently connected second monitor (VGA). The problem is when I first boot both monitors show same login screen (like in the mirroring mode).
After login in, both monitors are ...
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How to start gnome wayland desktop from lightdm?
I installed Gnome 3.24 (gnome-shell and gnome-desktop-environment) on a previous Ubuntu 17.04 (Unity) installation.
I can start gnome Wayland session from display manager gdm3, but not from Lightdm. ...
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Login Screen Issue: First lightdm needs to be killed to get X session to work
I'm running MATE 20.04 and have a problem each time I reboot. Instead of getting the lightdm login screen
When I have the grub option "silent" set I get a blank screen (it's all black but ...
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Lightdm gives black screen after logging out
I am using Ubuntu 20.04 with lightdm.
Everything is fine except that if I log out, the screen turns black. And I have to press Ctrl + Alt + F2 to get the console and issue sudo lightdm to get the ...
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ubuntu 18.04 won't shut down, stop job is running
I switched to lightdm, after having troubles with a freezed screen when logging in on gdm3. Now logging in works fine, but my computer won't shut down now and it keeps saying this
a stop job is ...
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Change lightdm-gtk-greeter background?
I've been Googling like a maniac trying to find an answer, so I've now decided to ask here.
How do I go about changing the background of the login screen? (lightdm-gtk-greeter).
It currently uses ...
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Change lockscreen in MATE?
I want the lightdm-webkit-greeter to be mine lockscreen, do you know how to change it? I found a way how to add Xscreensaver screensavers to mate-screensaver or even change background, but no word on ...
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Unable to switch back to lightdm default settings
Installing the lightdm on ubuntu20.04, after that I changed some configurations on themes and panels.
Becuase I found that the panels modified by me was somewhat ugly, So I tried to switch back t
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Login Loop and strange PWD
I'm getting the infinite log in loop on Ubuntu for just one of my user accounts - I've tried all of the recommended solutions (modifying .Xauthority, /temp/ and using lightdm)
Strangely when I ctrl+...
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Login problem in 20.04 : can't type anything in the login box
Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS / XFCE / Dell Latitude 3460 recently upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04.
(1) After suspend first wakes up to an Unlock screen with a simplified log-in window (with just one Unlock button ...
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Ubuntu 18 login loop + startx works
So recently I got stuck in a login loop on Ubuntu 18. I tried some solutions posted here but none of them works for me so far. Here's what I tried by accessing terminal from login screen:
Checking ...