Questions about the login screen, specifically customizing/troubleshooting it.
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Ubuntu - Cannot get to login screen after successful install
I have Windows 7 installed on one of my HDDs and I installed Ubuntu 12.04.2 & 13.04 64-bit, none of them worked. I got the same error with them both; I couldn't get to the login screen. So what ...
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I want to delete warty-final-ubuntu.png
I've seen many stuff here about it but all I want to do is delete this big 2 MB image which loads everytime my Ubuntu boots. As the general law says these things slows down the system. On boot it ...
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Lightdm making me log in twice
The second login screen is normal. But in the first login screen, I can type any password to go through it and strange characters appear in the upper-left hand of the screen when I type.
Would ...
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Logon screen resolution on two displays (Intel HD Graphics)
I have a laptop with Intel HD Graphics and resolution 1366 x 768 (d.1) and a display with resolution 1280 x 1024 (d.2).
When I connected it via VGA while in my desktop it worked all right, but after ...
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How to inhibit automatic login in gnome3
I use automatic login in gnome3 recurrently.
Altough, from time to time, it happens I want to power on my PC and inhibit auto-login at startup in order to login with other account. In KDE, I remember ...
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Startup Screen stuck after login done
Its a very new install of Raring (Ubuntu 13). My only OS on a HP dv2600 laptop with 2Gb RAM & 160Gb HDD.
My Login screen is stuck after the login is done. Its like it freezes after the login. It ...
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How to extend keyboard settings to login screen?
I need to use a 3rd level key while in the login screen.
I have mapped it to Left-Alt in my account, but in the login screen settings seem to have been not applied.
Is there any way to apply an ...
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Lost desktop in Ubuntu 13.04
I have Ubuntu 13.04 installed alongside Win 7 in a 10Gb recovery partition that has been fine.
I didn't like Unity, so was using Gnome desktop, no problems.
Today I noticed disc space on Ubuntu was ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 - Login screen loop [duplicate]
I've installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu 13.04 on my new Dell XPS 13 laptop, the installation went fine and so i continued to configure it for my needs.
After a lot of configurations I've rebooted the ...
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Where is the /etc/login.conf file in Ubuntu 12.10 and latest?
Where is the file for the general login for to configure it?
/etc/login.conf seems to be outdated in 12.10 ?
I want to adjust maximum number of login attempts. e.g. in sudo from 3 to 1.
same for ...
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How To Set Default Wallpaper As Login Screen Wallpaper [Automatically]?
I`m Unable To Set The Login Screen Wallpaper Of My Custom Wallpaper Is There Any Working Tool Which Changes Easily Without Any Bugs
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I can't access to my session
I try to log in my session but the login screen reappeared each time , the password is correctly entered.
NB: the guest session is accessible
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Can't login to my user
I was installing NVM using this command:
curl https://raw.github.com/creationix/nvm/master/install.sh | sh
as explained in the github page https://github.com/creationix/nvm
It didn't work, so I ...
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Can't log in after waking up Ubuntu 13.04 from suspend
After I suspend my laptop and try to log back in, a bunch of messages appear really fast (something like NOUVEU is in the message, but I can't read it all because it disappears after about 15 seconds) ...
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How can I get back to a login screen after a freeze?
I have to manually shut down and to enter my SDA crypt pass and my user pass over again.
How do I force the poweroff without having to hit the power button, or get back to a login screen. Nobody has ...
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Blank screen after entering password on login screen after clonezilla restore
I get a blank screen after entering my login password at the ubuntu login screen. And after a short while the login screen is restored. Any further attempts result in a similar cycle as before. This ...
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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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Black screen after update to 13.04 (HP 530) - Solution available
After updating to Ubuntu 13.04 (from 12.04) I've got a blackscreen at boot. The machine is running fine as I hear the startup sound to enter my password, I just don't see anything.
I started using ...
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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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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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When I enter password to login, it returns login desktop inspite of correct password [duplicate]
How to login my Ubuntu? I want to login to my Ubuntu desktop. When it is turned on and ask for enter password for specific user I add password keyboad and hit return key, but again it return login ...
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I consistently get two login screens
"... I consistently get two login screens!
I enter credentials correctly and am immediately presented with a second login screen (no errors). Authenticating against the second screen completes a ...
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Can't get past login screen on 12.04 server. How to get past it?
AS of right now, I am unable to log into my machine. No GUI is installed, so all I have is the CLI. The computer boots, and then comes to logon prompt. I can put in my username (the only one on the ...
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Awesome WM Does Not Appear as a Login Option? [duplicate]
I am running 13.04, with the default Unity and lubuntu-desktop desktops. The LightDM login manager gives me both Unity and Lubuntu as desktop options and some variants on them but Awesome WM does not ...
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I can't see login screen
I'm a user using ubuntu 12.10, and recently, I got a problem loging in in ubuntu.
It was working fine till yesterday, but since yesterday, whenever I try to start ubuntu, only orange-yellow screen is ...
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Unable to logged in to standard user account [duplicate]
I am using Ubuntu 12.10 x86_64 on intel machine.
From last 2 days I am unable to logged in standard user (non root) account. Initially the Ubuntu gets booted and then it shows the login screen. Now ...
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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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Not able to login in ubuntu
I changed my etc/environment with path set for ORACLE_HOME and rebooted the system.
It created one more user as oracle in my login screen, now after a reboot I am trying to
login as usual but it is ...
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No login screen after boot
A strange problem happening after update. After I updated Ubuntu 12.10, I restarted. After boot, i realized that there isn't any login screen AT ALL!!! I mean no login screen, just an Ubuntu ...
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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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blank login screen for laptop with Intel 965 Express Chipset Family
I have been using Ubuntu 12.04, current kernel is 3.5.0.02-generic.
I have downloaded and installed 2 days ago Intel Linux Graphics Installer deb file suitable for Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset ...
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can't login in GUI of ubuntu 12.04
I have done extensive search for the answer to this problem:
On the login in page, after tying password, my screen turns dark for a second and becomes the login page again. the guest account doesn't ...
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Can't log in after waking up from sleep
I have this issue since the first time I installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Whenever my laptop wakes up from sleep the log in screen looks like this:
In order to log in I end up restarting my system and ...
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Is there a way I can have my account load on boot [duplicate]
Logging in is already fast, but I believe that it could be faster. I'm the only one who has an account on my computer, but I still want the password for obvious reasons. I'm wanting my account to load ...
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Multimonitor in login screen vs. lock screen
I have a multiple monitor setup with two screens. The login screen uses dual monitor mode (as seen on the first picture), but the lock screen (CTRL + ALT + L) uses only a single monitor and disables ...
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unable to login after installing video card
I have been using Ubuntu for a while. I changed the video card (to have multiple monitors) and after fumbling with it I obviously screwed up something. Net result Ubuntu boots fine but when I try to ...
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Lubuntu Unable to Login with GUI. Coloured lines\bars
I am new to Linux. I successfully installed Lubuntu 12.10 alternate version "lubuntu-12.10-alternate-i386". I checked the .iso file using "WinMd5Sum" and it was proper. I burned it and checked error ...
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Cannot log into user account, can log into guest. (12.10) [duplicate]
after restarting my computer today I cant seem to log into my main user account but i can still log into a guest account (what im using atm). I get a log in prompt like usual but it gives me a quick ...
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Log in fails after installing additional drivers
So I updated my graphic drivers using the additional drivers option and restarted my computer upon completion.
Now when I try to log in everything looks fine, I put in my password and hit enter, ...
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Ubuntu on login shows messages from the linux boot process
I face this weird problem when it comes to login to my Ubuntu system.
It doesn't happen all the time.When it happens I press the Enter button and after that the system shows the normal login ...
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Cannot select gnome shell when logging in anymore 12.04
suddenly the "GNOME" option when logging in to ubuntu disappeared.
I have absolutely no idea why. apt-get remove gnome-shell && apt-get install gnome-shell didn't have any effect.
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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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Ubuntu not allowing me to log in after upgrade from 10.04 to 12.04
I upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04 and it went fine. After restart, when I try to log in from my root user it shows a command screen in a split second and then returns back to the log in screen ...
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Switching OS's on the fly
Is it possible to load Ubuntu after you boot in windows and shut windows down and then switch it back?
Just for fun
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permanent desktop background
Is it at all possible the have the login screen desktop background remain permanent for all users and prevent them from changing to whatever they desire? We are currently using GDM with 12.04 LTS.
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Where can I find the old GDM2 Ubuntu login theme?
I've installed the Mint Display Manager (based on the old GDM2 code).
I'm looking for the most recent GDM2 theme that shipped with Ubuntu before they moved to LightDM, something that looks similar to ...
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Why Ubuntu is freezing at the login screen?
I have windows 7 installed on my PC and I also have Ubuntu 12.10. When I choose to boot with windows 7 it starts just fine, but when I boot with Linux it freezes at the sign in screen.
Can anyone ...
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Lock screen turn off and on : Goes to a loop asking to enter password to unlock- then turns off again.
I recently updated my laptop from 12.04 to 12.10. And now, whenever I lock screen with "CTRL+ALT+L", the screen locks, and monitor turns off. But within 30 seconds, it turns on and asks for password. ...
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is my hardware not compatible?
I have a fx4100 a radeon 6670 a gigabyte moboard and 8 GB of dddr3 ram. The failure occurs once I attempt to log in to my account. Is the hardware causing the problem? It's a diy build so I can ...
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Can't login (unexpected EOF in .profile)
I am having a problem with login. Its in a cycle login with password correct - > login -> login with password correct -> login.
I've seen a few threads about this matter but none helped.
I do ...
