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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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How to convert MDM theme to GDM theme?
Recently I have installed MDM Display Manager in Ubuntu 12.10 with Cinnamon.
I don't know why Manager Login Window can't install mdm themes, only accepts GDM.
So How can I convert a MDM theme to ...
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Log in fails and returns to log in screen
I am running a very nearly fresh Gnome version of 12.10, with no particular tweaks or customisation. I performed an upgrade yesterday using
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade
which completed ...
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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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Reset GDM to default Display Manager
I'm currently running Xubuntu 10.04 LTS and wanted to try out the SLiM display manager on my system.
Well I installed it (from the synaptic package manager) and something really bad happened; I can't ...
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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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How would one change the GDM theme in Ubuntu 12.04? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I change the login screen theme in GDM?
I am using GDM, not lightDM.
None of the established GDM login theme changers work in precise.
How can I change ...
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Log in manager doesn't appear after editing /etc/X11/default-display-manager
I have ubuntu 11.10 , and I installed kde and I choosed kdm mistakly, as mentioned here I did this procedure
Pretty simple. Open the file /etc/X11/default-display-manager with your editor of ...
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Use GNOME 3 login screen instead of LightDM? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to get Gnome 3.2 login theme installed?
Everytime I start up my laptop I get the unity login screen while I want this to be the GNOME3 login screen.
The unity login ...
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How to modify the system default login background image?
Following this, I added a couple of modified background images to the backgrounds collection. Now, I want to select a different background for the login screen. How do I do that?
UPDATE: Just tried ...
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How do I switch back to GDM and have it launch at boot?
So I got rid of Lightdm but how do I get GDM to launch at default. It hangs on "checking battery state" this is in virtual box if that matters. I want GDM login to load by default instead of me ...
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Replace the desktop by an application: two exact same set-ups: one works, the other does not [closed]
I followed the question How do I replace the desktop by an application
religiously and was very excited when it worked on my laptop. (Dev environment).
The next step for me was to replicate it on a ...
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How to remove the old gdm [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I make LightDM the default display manager?
I have installed Ubuntu 11.10 beta and all of its changes are now working and let me testing them, but the only ...
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1answer
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How do I create a .xession / .xinitrc file to launch the default Xubuntu-Session?
I'm trying to use SLiM instead of GDM as a login manager, but I fail miserably when creating the proper .xsession / .xinitrc file need by SLiM.
How would a proper .xession file look like to start the ...
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What's the difference between GDM and LightDM?
What is the difference between GDM and LightDM? How can one switch between them. I mean if I have selected LightDM during installation process, will I be able switch to GDM?
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Is the OpenGL greeter (facebrowser) still on the table?
A few years ago, there was an OpenGL greeter (GDM Facebrowser), which would narrow down the user list as you type the user name.
Here is the video: link. Can someone tell me if it is still under ...
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Disable auto-login from the CLI
After successfully installing Ubuntu and logging in to the Unity desktop, I followed the prompts to enable the proprietary display drivers.
After rebooting, the Unity desktop is now entirely ...
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How to play a sound in login before going to desktop [closed]
Well hello to all again. Thanks for all of your help but now I was thinking that maybe I could get Ubuntu to play like a 2 minute song in GDM, and the song plays in the login screen when not in ...
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How can I use the recovery console to start a session step by step? [closed]
If you select "Recovery Console" at the GDM login screen, you are presented with a terminal screen in the top corner of the screen and the usual GDM background.
I'm trying to diagnose a problem which ...
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1answer
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Opening files in LibreOffice logs out and returns to the login screen
I was working with some .pptx presentations, and when I opened a new .pptx file, a tty appeared and the system reloaded back to the Ubuntu login screen.
Since then, every time I open LibreOffice ...
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Running a webbrowser on the screen saver or login screen?
I would really like people to be able to use my locked computer to surf, so I would like some way to run a browser on login screen. So can I make GDM run Firefox in some way? It would be cooler if I ...
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Remote login with graphical display manager (GDM, LightDM)
Is it possible to remotely (via ssh) make a login to GDM?
I'll explain a situation in which I'd need this:
I'm on my laptop and connect to my desktop via ssh. I realize there are some updates ...
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How do I disable the drum beat sound on the login screen?
I would have expected System ▸ Administration ▸ Login Screen ▸ Play login sound to control this, but unchecking it does not prevent the drum beat sound from playing.
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Change Login Window Appearance [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I change the login screen theme?
Is there any way to change the appearance of the login window (specifically including the font hinting settings)?
It would be ...
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How to disable GUI root login?
Sometime ago I just tested to see if I could login to desktop from root, and I succeeded. I clicked on Others on the userlist and entered root and its password and logged in. Now I'd like to know how ...
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Ubuntu Studio Login Screen Missing?
Just upgraded my machine to Ubuntu Studio (10.10), and am starting to learn my way around.
One thing I noticed off-the-bat is that the GDM login screen promoted on the Studio site is missing ...
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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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1answer
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How can I set the clock to 24 hour mode? [closed]
How can I set the clock to global (24h time) in Maverick instead of am/pm? Including the login screen?
I mean there's no option to do that in rclick clock > preferences or in system > admin > time ...
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Force gdm login screen to the primary monitor
I have two monitors attached to my video card. Primary monitor has a resolution equal to 1280x1024 and the second has 1920x1200. My gdm login screen always appears on the second monitor even if it is ...
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1answer
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Screen magnifier wrecks login screen — how to get rid of it?
In the Ubuntu / GNOME login screen, I tried some of the different accessibility settings out of curiosity. Big mistake!
Enabling the "use screen magnifier" (or whatever) option breaks down the view ...
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Is there a way to replace kdm with gdm?
Well i tried kubuntu not long ago , didnt liked it and purged it from my system,
except one thing, I still have the kde login screen, is there anyway to get my gnome login screen back?
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What login screen program will 11.04 use?
Will Ubuntu continue using that old (GNOME 2.X) login screen, or create its own, or there will be a new one in Gnome 3?
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How can I change location of login dialog in GDM?
How can I change location of login panel on Ubuntu 10.10 start up page, where entering password. I want to move it down and now it is in center of screen
thank you
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Why I have to wait some seconds before I can input my password on login?
When on login I click on the user, immediately shows password field but before I can type it I have to wait some seconds, sometimes even 5! I don't see this problem on other computers that I have, ...
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1answer
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Screensaver + lock double login problem after Maverick upgrade
Just found something strange after updating from 10.04 to 10.10. I've set up my screensaver to lock the account when activated.
When I log back in, I see my desktop for a second and then the ...
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Auto select user on login screen
I am new to Ubuntu (10.10), migrating from Windows 7 and I want to setup my login screen so it auto-selects user (there is only one user profile on my system) and that it asks for my password so I can ...
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Hangs on Splash Screen after login (auto-login), how can I fix this?
Computer: Toshiba Terca A4
OS: Ubuntu Desktop 10.10
After installing 10.10, the splash screen hangs and the mouse pointer appears.
Anyone know what I can do to fix this?
~/.xsession-errors has
...
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Where is the order of names in gdm login screen stored? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I change the order of the users in the login screen?
Where is the users' login history stored that governs the order in which the users' names appear in the ...
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1answer
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gnome-power-manager is running while trying to log in. How to get rid of it? [closed]
After booting into the ubuntu login screen and clicking on my user name and entering the password, I get a dialog stating that gnome-power-manager is still running. The dialog presents 2 buttons, 1 to ...
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4answers
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Takes forever to login?
After upgrading to 10.04, Ubuntu takes a long time (1-2 minutes) to login after typing the credentials. The majority of this time the dialog box says "checking credentials". How do I even go about ...
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Can't seem to get my login screen back after installing slim
At one point I switched from GDM to slim and now I can't seem to get past the splash screen. After pressing Esc I can see that it is stuck on Starting X Display Manager: Slim. I need to get back to ...
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3answers
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How to log-in via TTY by instead of GDM? [closed]
I want my Ubuntu box to boot directly into a tty login screen and after it does that I want it to automatically run startx how would I go about doing this?
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How can I change the login screen theme in GDM?
How can I change the Login screen theme? Is there a graphical way or no?
