Questions about the login screen, specifically customizing/troubleshooting it.
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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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2answers
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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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5answers
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How to enable numlock at boot time for login screen?
I am trying to force numlock to be on upon initial boot at the login screen on Ubuntu 12.04. The only solutions I have found so far switch numlock on only after initial login.
I'm looking to force ...
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6answers
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Cannot login to my user account
I upgraded my ubuntu from 11.04 to 11.10 via mounting the latest alternate CD image released on Oct. 13 as the final standard version and running the cdromupgrade prompt successfully, with full latest ...
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8answers
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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?
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2answers
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How can I make LightDM the default display manager?
I have LightDM installed and can start it with sudo start lightdm. But at boot, GDM is still the default. How can change this so LightDM is loaded automatically at boot instead of GDM?
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2answers
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How do I set the login manager to enable `change languages` at login?
How can I recompile the source to force the option to allow changing languages and keyboard layouts at login?
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2answers
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Login screen won't accept my password
I recently upgraded to 12.04 from 11.10 and since upgrading have been unable to login to my user profile. The upgrade went okay and I can login to a guest session fine but whenever I try to login to ...
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0answers
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How do I disable the startup sound in Ubuntu 12.04 login-screen? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to disable login sound?
I would like to know how to disable the startup sound in Ubuntu 12.04 login-screen; that is, the sound produced at the login-screen before ...
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2answers
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Will Ubuntu 11.04 use GNOME 3?
Will Ubuntu 11.04 use Gnome 3? If so, what differences for end-user is going to be? I know that there won't be Gnome shell, but what about the login screen? Will Ubuntu continue using that old (GNOME ...
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3answers
2k views
How can I take a screenshot of the login screen?
How can I take a screenshot of the login screen?
I do not want to recreate my Ubuntu installation in a virtual machine.
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1answer
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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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15answers
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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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5answers
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Cannot login via Unity login screen after upgrade to 12.04
Logging in via the shell accessed through Ctrl+Alt-F1 and logging in as guest via the graphical user interface work 0O
When I try to log into my standard user account via the graphical interface, the ...
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3answers
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LightDM is running but does not display on login
LightDM is installed and running by default as a part of the Beta release. Yet, LightDM is not displayed at login time, rather a primitive, GDM like manager is the one we find at login time.
I tried ...
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7answers
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Login screen loops unless you login as Guest
I am running a VMWare Player with a Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangloin as Guest on my Windows 7. Sometimes I get the shutdown blue screen error in Windows, this time it happened when I was running the ...
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1answer
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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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8answers
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after 12.04 upgrade: can't log in although password is correct
I upgraded from 10.10 to 12.04, and now can't log in any more. The password is correct- when I type in a wrong one, I am told it's incorrect, while the correct one is seemingly accepted, but then just ...
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1answer
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Resolution of the login screen is wrong on a second monitor
Is it possible to do changes to the login screen in Ubuntu 11.10? I'm running with a laptop and an external screen and in boot and login they're mirrored and has a weird resolution.
To clarify: I'm ...
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2answers
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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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1answer
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How can I change another user's “About Me” photo?
Is there a way for a user with administrative privileges to change another user's "About Me" photo?
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3answers
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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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0answers
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Must login twice before entering Unity; first login screen has graphical anomalies [closed]
When booting my computer I am first presented with the regular lightdm login screen except there are some graphical anomalies in the top 5th of the screen. When I press a key on the keyboard the ...
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2answers
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How To Change Login Screen Background On 11.10 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I change the wallpaper in LightDM?
How do i change the background of the login screen on 11.10 i have tried Simple-lightDM-Manager and now all i get is a black ...
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2answers
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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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3answers
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Where is the login screen wallpaper located?
Just wanna know this because I like the pic and I'd like to learn where is the LightDM wallpaper located in Ubuntu.
Thanks!
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1answer
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How to input commands on the Live CD mode selection screen
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-fix-ubuntu-10-04-lts-lucid-blank-screen-at-startup.html
I have the problem in the above answer page and to fix it I need to highlight Live Mode on the CD/USB and ...
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0answers
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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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2answers
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How can I change the keyboard layout in the login screen?
I have different users on the machine who use different keyboard layouts. In 11.04, you could change the keyboard layout on the login screen (and it would remember it per user).
How can I do this in ...
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3answers
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How do you start-up in the login screen with Num Lock on? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to enable numlock at boot time for login screen?
I use numbers in my password and would therefore like to start Ubuntu with Num-Lock enabled. This would also be ...
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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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3answers
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capture login screen-not sucssecful
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 . If more information is needed, please tell me.
I Tried some guides to cature my login screen:
How can I take a screenshot of the login screen?
...
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2answers
2k views
No Unity 3d option on the login screen
I upgraded my ubuntu to 11.10 on day one but the unity 3d is not there as an option. I have User Defined, Recovery Mode and Ubuntu 2D.
I've done this test /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p and all ...
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1answer
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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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2answers
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How does “Accounts Service” work with lightdm?
I have added two users using the command useradd but they do no show up in the lightdm/unity-greeter login screen. So there is no way to graphically login for them. It seems Accounts Service ...
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1answer
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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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2answers
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Black screen after “Lock Screen”
I'm using a new HP Home G42-215BR notebook, which uses an Intel HD Graphics GPU (i915 kernel driver).
My Ubuntu 10.10 installation is new and is up-to-date.
When I choose to lock screen in the menu ...
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2answers
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How can I change the default user shown in the login screen?
Well, the title is pretty much it.
When I start my system I always get the same user on the login screen (this is the original user created when the system was first installed). How can I change that ...
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2answers
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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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1answer
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The terminal is shown when shutting down or logging out
When I shut down my system or log out the terminal (the one I reach with Ctrl Alt + F7) is sometimes shown before the login screen appears or before the computer is shut down. Is there a way to stop ...
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2answers
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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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5answers
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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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1answer
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Logging in over and over again. How to fix this? [closed]
Ok, I messed up. I installed ubuntu 11.10, installed awesome wm and removed unity, to have something to fall back on, I also installed gnome-session-fallback.
I was messing around and did the ...
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1answer
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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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2answers
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How do I hide a user from the login list? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to hide users from the login screen?
I'm setting Ubuntu 10.10 up on my father's desktop and have two user accounts, his and mine (for remote administration ...
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2answers
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Ubuntu Wont Login
I have Ubuntu 11.10 installed...
for some unknown reason it wont log me in. entering the password returns me to the login screen immediately
i googled for solution and applied the following and yet ...
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2answers
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How can I disable automatic login on a LiveUSB?
I've just made myself a persistent LiveUSB, running Ubuntu 12.04, and I've immediately found a problem - It logs you in automatically as root, and I don't need this since I'm going to keep files and ...
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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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Add terminal session with network to login in screen
I want to add a terminal Xsession to the log in drop down screen. Can anyone let me know how to do this? No desktop, load only terminal with network support.
Booting in recovering from grub lets me ...
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Delete Ubuntu to free up space for computer restart properly
I copied photos onto my notebook hard drive and got a warning of limited hard drive space...I continued to copy photos onto my hard dirve. I got a message that the space limit was reached an no more ...
