Questions about the login screen, specifically customizing/troubleshooting it.
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Ubuntu 12.10 shutdown/restart from login-screen [duplicate]
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I can’t shut down nor reboot without console
When I click shutdown or restart from login-screen, nothing happens.
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How can I turn off my server when i am in the login screen?
I would like to turn off my server by pressing the power button. The problem is if I am in the login screen (I haven't logged in yet). Pressing the power button will not shutdown my server. How can I ...
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Login Wallpaper Spanning Dual Monitors in 12.04
Is there a way to make the background on the login screen span dual monitors rather than being mirrored? I know it's possible for the actual wallpaper when you're logged in but can't find an option ...
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How To Reset To Old Login Screen Settings [ubuntu 12.10] [duplicate]
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How do I add customized wallpapers so they appear in the dynamic unity greeter?
How do I switch from LightDM to GDM?
When I Tried To Change Default Ubuntu Given ...
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Login Screen Background
I changed the Login Screen Background picture using ubuntu-tweak. It worked!
However, after a second reboot, the picture does not appear... well, it shows up for a mili-seconds, and after that the ...
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Inconsistent Purple Screen After Boot
Ubuntu 12.10 - HP Pavilion g4 - AMD Radeon HD 6480G Discrete-Class Graphics
After upgrading to Ubuntu 12.10, I have encountered a random "purple screen after boot" issue.
Here is the nature of 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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Hide an account from the login screen
I am using Ubuntu 12.10, can someone give-me instructions on how to make an account invisible from the login screen without deleting it?
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Mouse lagging on 12.10 login page
I just installed ubuntu 12.10 and it seems the mouse lags/is choppy (it will momentarily stick to the page and then appear where I had gestured to instantly every half second or so) on the login page. ...
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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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monitor not turning off at login screen
Since upgrading to Ubuntu 12.10 I noticed that the monitor stopped turning off (standby or suspend) when at the login screen. I have been able to configure the monitor to sleep when logged in ...
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num lock on at login screen but off after login [duplicate]
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How to enable numlock at boot time for login screen?
I installed numlockx to enable num lock at login screen.It did what I wanted.But I also had enabled default numeric ...
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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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Can't startup as login screen requests a name and password - but I have not set one up yet?
I am trying Ubuntu on an XP machine. Downloaded burnt to DVD - all good, rebooted and Ubuntu started from DVD. I clicked TRY and it then came up with a login.
What name and password do I use the ...
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Unable to switch Desktop Environment/GUI's at login page
I'm unable to switch to the Gnome Environment from the default Ubuntu user login page. The list comes up, but when I click Gnome, it doesn't select the gnome enviromnent. When I click back to see the ...
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How do I set automatic login in Ubuntu 12.10?
When I boot my computer, I already have to enter my password to decrypt my drive. So an additional password at the login screen (Light DM) would not be necessary.
How do I enable automatic logging in ...
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how can I prevent the login screen to be shown after suspending?
I mean the following screen:
I am using Ubuntu 10.04. I tried various solutions from previous posts but none of them helped .
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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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Issue in the initialization of Ubuntu 12.10. How to proceed?
50% of the times I turn my pc on, I am having an issue after the selection of Ubuntu in the grub.
The screen becomes purple and stays that way forever. I can hear the little sound that Ubuntu does ...
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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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How to disable sliding login screen in Gnome 3.6?
I am using Gnome 3.6 and I am quite annoyed by the login screen when my computer wakes up. The new implementation in Gnome includes two steps. First you have to hit Esc or click and drag upward ...
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Unable to change desktop environment in 12.10
I upgraded to 12.10 some days ago and now I'm unable to change between the environments. I currently have GNOME 3 (with extensions), KDE and, of course, Unity installed. The computer is a Lenovo G550.
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Login screen hesitates and login issues with another user after 12.10 upgrade
I installed 12.10 last evening, no issues during install and rebooted OK, however from there have had problems:
When login appears for the main account I use, I enter password and screen hesitates, ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 Login screen doesn't show background
I own two laptops, and upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10 on both of them. On one of them, when I get to the login screen, I see a nice interface with the same background image as the desktop, and a nice ...
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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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12.04 Login gone wrong
I seem to have a fault in the login procedure somewhere. When I boooted up I found that if I selected Guest I could use the computer. If I selected my administrator account I was taken straight to ...
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How to log in by typing username & password on 12.10? [duplicate]
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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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ubuntu 12.04 Boot stuck at splash screen
I tried to change lightdm with gdm but when I set the computer to use gdm and logged out lightdm was used, so I uninstalled gdm, now this is the problem:
I shut down my computer and went to sleep, ...
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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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Unable to login - account disabled
Ah, recently, I've been unable to login to my main master account, as it would return me to the login screen after entering my password. Thinking I could just delete the account and make a new one, I ...
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Ubuntu freezing after boot [duplicate]
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What should I do when Ubuntu freezes?
12.04 stuck at the login screen
I have ubuntu 12.04 LTS dual booting with windows 7 on my laptop without any problems and felt ...
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12.10: login screen never goes blank
I have installed the 12.10 beta (with all updates) on my iMac Early 2008. One annoying problem I'm having is that, when I log out of my account and go back to the login screen (lightdm, per default), ...
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Can't Log Into Ubuntu 12.04
Yesterday, after turning on Ubuntu, I logged into a Gnome session. A few minutes later, I tried switching to Unity for a change. Unfortunately, the background and my desktop icons loaded, but the ...
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Login not working after upgrade to 12.10 [closed]
I just upgraded to 12.10 from 12.04, and now my login isn't working. When I log in with the incorrect password, it tells me that it's wrong, but when I log in with the correct password, it just brings ...
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Ubuntu restart into login screen when I move the mouse pointer [closed]
I just installed Ubuntu on my old computer. It is a Intel Pentium IV 1.8 GHz processor and have 512 MB RAM and P4VM800 ASRock motherboard.
The problem is when I move the mouse pointer, it always ...
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Graphics problem can't login [duplicate]
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How to fix “The system is running in low-graphics mode” error?
I have installed 12.04, after installation I tried to install an antivirus, which required i386 ...
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Purple flickering screen on log in?
I've installed the latest version of Ubuntu on my PC. Every time I boot, I get a purple flickering screen. It takes me to the log in screen (I know this because i can hear the noise that indicates ...
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Cannot log in to Ubuntu after changing /etc/fstab
I was recently trying to change my /home directory to a new hard drive using these instructions.
I got to the step where I have to change the fstab file and I think what I did was I set the location ...
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How do I create a popup banner before login with Lightdm?
When Ubuntu was using gnome I was able to create a popup banner like the banner below before the login screen using zenity in the /etc/gdm/Init/Default. The line of code would be like this:
if [ -f ...
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New User logs faster than old user
my main user on ubuntu is about one year old, and it has become very very slow to log in (after I enter password it takes time to show anything) but for guest user or another new user it is very fast.
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I uninstalled Ariya in Kubuntu, how do I install it again?
I have installed Kubuntu 12.04 LTS. By mistake, I removed default login screen (Ariya).
It is now showing this message:
Cannot login /user/shared/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/ariya
Now I am not able to ...
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ubuntu log-in screen is broken what to do?
It all happenned after i tried to upgrade my gnome-shell 3.4.1 to v3.5.4. I didnt know that it was an unstable release. The first problem was that the wallpaper was busted with improper colour ...
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Kubuntu freezes after leaving on login screen [duplicate]
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What should I do when Ubuntu freezes?
Sometimes after I logout (Ctrl+Alt+L) and leave my pc for a night I can't wake it up next day.
It is happening randomly like 1-2 ...
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When laptop turned on, and Ubuntu is chosen for OS, I get a blank purple screen and can't log on. How do I fix this problem?
I turn on the computer.
I can select either Windows 7 or Ubuntu.
When I select Windows 7 it works well.
When I select Ubuntu, it normally works well.
But right now when I select Ubuntu,
It leads ...
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Black & White screen after resuming from Suspend [Ubuntu 12.04] [closed]
I recently thought of giving Linux a try with Ubuntu 12.04. So far I managed to figure out how to troubleshoot and fix some of my older issues. But i wasnt able to find a problem similar to mine.
The ...
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Kubuntu 12.04 - Failed to load session 'gnome'
Since the upgrade from Kubuntu 11.10 to 12.04, everytime I want to log in the computer starts doing something and then the message
Failed to load session 'gnome'
appears with the button ...
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Set wallpaper in the Lock Screen
Is there an app or some way to set the desktop wallpaper as viewable when only logged in, and to set another when logged out or locked? I've tried Ubuntu Tweak, but it only does the login wallpaper, ...
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Ubuntu-Tweak login background [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I change the wallpaper in LightDM?
I changed my login wallpaper to an image,which is different from my desktop background,using Ubuntu Tweak. When I ...
