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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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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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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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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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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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lightdm-gtk-greeter-ubuntu “crashes” after installing KDE4.10
I have a weird problem, which I didn't found anything on the internet about.
I installed KDE4.10 (from kubuntu-ppa/backports) a week ago, and it changed the loginscreen. After there was something ...
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why am i not getting my ubuntu 12.10 login screen back after uninstalling xubuntu 12.10?
I installed xubuntu, then uninstalled it completely, but I am not getting my original log-in screen back. It's a simple log-in screen with the computer's icon, user name, password and session details ...
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How do I change the startup sound? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I change the start up sound?
Note: This is not a duplicate. The above question refers to the sound played at login and not the sound at the login screen.
Is ...
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1answer
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Run conky over LightDM
Is it possible to have my conky gadgets run over my lightDM login screen? If so, how would I go about this? I saw someone doing it with XDM under debian in this screenshot from a thread on the ...
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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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How do I boot into console mode (redux)
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04. This question was asked some time ago, but the answers didn't work for me.
The standard way to boot into console mode used to be to edit /etc/default/grub and set ...
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How do I remove the unity 2D option in lightdm (login sceen) in ubuntu 12.04?
Because I wish to view my full username at login, I want to remove the "Unity 2D" option at the login screen. Currently the last part of the username (after the 20th digit) is hidden behind the ...
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How to change the font on the LightDM login screen
I want to change the font of the unity greeter screen usernames etc...
I saw this link but it says no such file exists!
so how can i get it done?
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Unable to sign in. How to debug?
I had to reboot system with reset button. After reboot I can't sign in. When I enter my password It seems like X-server just restarts.
I can sign-in as guest and also I can sign-in in text TTY. Here ...
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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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Desktop login fails, terminal works
I have a freshly setup 12.04 LTS pc system (120 GB SSD, 1 TB HDD, 16 GiB RAM); since a few days, I can't login to the graphical desktop anymore: there is very short flashing shell window which ...
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How to get 12.04's login screen (lightdm) to display the shutdown menu like 10.04 when the computer's physical power button is pressed?
In Ubuntu 10.04 while at the login screen (gdm), when the computer's physical power button was pressed a screen popped up that offered options on shutting down the system (shutdown, restart, cancel, ...
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“dm-tool lock” doesn't lock my session
When I use dm-tool to lock the screen for userA, I can log in as userB and then use dm-tool to switch back to userA's session without having to enter a password. Is that the expected behavior? If ...
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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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lightdm does not autostart - no login screen!
When I boot up my system, I don't get a login screen, just the boot log scrolling by, repeating after a while lines like this:
* Starting anac(h)ronistic cron [ OK ]
* Stopping anac(h)ronistic cron ...
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LightDM Backgroud is a simple purple radiant
It seems after I tried to change the login screen background with Ubuntu Tweak, the greeter's background stays a simple purple background with just the spots..
I tried using dconf-editor, rechanging ...
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Login screen in 12.10 never displays without manual intervention
I just upgraded to 12.10 and I noticed that whenever I boot up, I need to press CTRL + ALT + F7 to get the login screen to appear.
This didnt happen in 12.04 , so I don't know how to fix it.
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How to add a keyboard layout to the login screen?
The login screen only shows my default keyboard layout, how can I add different ones, so that other users can select these if they want?
Additionaly: is there a way to allow users to select arbitrary ...
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How do I log in with a user that is not included on the list in Ubuntu 12.04? [duplicate]
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit. I have created a system user so as to keep it out of the login screen with sudo adduser --group --system markpaskal, but I cannot login from the greeter because there ...
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How do I change login screen in Ubuntu 11.10 with KDE installed?
I used Simple LightDM Manager to change login screen images in my Ubuntu 11.10 system. But after I have installed KDE environment this software does not works. Login screen changes do not apply now, ...
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1answer
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How do I switch back to lightdm after upgrading to Gnome 3.4?
my lightdm became curious look like in the picture. how to restore the original look like Ubuntu?
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2answers
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How do I remove the Accessibility options/icon from the login screen?
Have young kids that manage to foul up Ubuntu by playing with the universal access options at the login screen. Tried following the directions for 10.04 but the stated directories don't exist in 12.04 ...
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1answer
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Change Ubuntu Gnome Shell Remix login screen [closed]
The current login screen in Ubuntu Gnome Shell Remix is very ugly...
How can I setup another appearance for the login sreen ?
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1answer
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Ubuntu 12.04 login hangs on “Checking Battery” or “SANED,” then returns to login screen
Working earlier tonight, my mouse froze in the middle of the screen, and so I restarted my system. Upon trying to log back in, the screen flashes black, and something along the lines of saned: edit ...
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How can I require users to also enter their usernames upon login?
Good day,
Does anyone know how to modify the login screen so that users are required to type their username along with their password?
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 with all default settings
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How to swap the language before login as per the old GDM login screen? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I set the login manager to enable change languages at login?
I used to run Ubuntu 10.04 on an computer.
When upgarde to 12.04 I have got a totally new login ...
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How to show avatar and username (not only full name) on the login screen?
I used ubuntu tweak to change the login background, but I need these other things as well:
Show username (not only full name) and avatar if possible, in the login screen
Any ideas how to achieve ...
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Why don't I have ubuntu tweak setting to mute/enable ubuntu login sound?
Ever since I installed Ubuntu 12.04, I couldn't figure out a way to enable the login sound.
I already have ubuntu tweak installed and I have been at this question, but on my ubuntu, there is not any ...
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How can I make lock screen be like the login screen? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to make the lock screen look like the login screen?
Is it possible to have the login screen displayed when locked instead of that ugly and horrible current lock ...
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User Accounts not listed in System Settings User Accounts
I'm running 12.04 on PPC (IMAC G5) - but have a problem with creating/editing user accounts with the System Preferences User Accounts tool. All updates have been downloaded and installed.
When I ...
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1answer
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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 to fix “The system is running in low-graphics mode” error?
Note:
This is an attempt to create a canonical question that covers all
instances of "low-graphics mode" error that occurs to a user,
including but not limited to installation of wrong ...
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How can I get LightDM to work on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit?
Is there a permanent fix for the looping login problem in LightDM?
I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit. LightDM won't work even though I haven't changed any options (background, etc.). It just ...
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LightDM run desktop for one session “This session Only”
I sometimes experiment with many different desktop environments, some of which can be unstable. I have had a few times where I needed to drop into root shell, disable auto login, then log into my ...
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user-specific log in background not working in 12.04 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I add customized wallpapers so they appear in the dynamic unity greeter?
The new feature included in ubuntu 12.04 Precise of having users-pecific background image ...
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243 views
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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Login screen restarts while entering password
I am having a problem that only occurred after installing the fglrx proprietary driver through the additional drivers app.
The exact same issue is described in this question, however it's closed.
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VMware tools easy install relic
I made a fresh 'easy install' of 12.04 on vmware workstation.
This is yet another problem (quite a few have been asked here.) with the vmware tools installation. I managed to install vmware tools ...
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Cannot log in into Ubuntu after an upgrade to 12.04 [closed]
Today I cannot log into the GUI, but I can use the console (Ctrl+Alt+F1) to log in as a user or as root, and I can login via ssh.
Under Natty, before the upgrade, I had set up Ubuntu to auto-login as ...
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Ubuntu 3D selection has been lost [closed]
I had a problem that i cannot login to Ubuntu(3d) desktop because the selection has no avaliable at the settings.
In lxdm logon screen, there is 2 'Ubuntu' written in desktop selection, but i can't ...
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How-To limit user-names in LightDM login-screen when AccountsService is used
I have several "user" names in passwd that don't represent real people, and that should not appear on the LightDM login-screen.
The lightdm-gtk-greeter configuration file clearly says that if ...
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How to take a screenshot of login screen? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I take a screenshot of the login screen?
I want to make a screenshot of my Login Screen on Ubuntu 11.10. So far, no method I read here has worked out for me. So ...
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Is LightDM is broken? Autologin works
I recently upgraded my Mythbuntu box to 11.10.
LightDM worked for a while and then I configured autologin on my user account. After some time, I've removed some packages to lean down the system.
Now ...
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1answer
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Login screen is rotated [closed]
When I turn on the computer, the login screen is rotated. But when I log in to my account, the screen is normal.
I have an ATI graphics card on an AMD laptop. The settings is normal for two user ...
