Questions tagged [unity-greeter]
The greeter (login screen) application for Unity. It is implemented as a LightDM greeter.
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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 do I hide a particular user from the login screen?
How do I hide a particular user from the login screen on a default install of 11.10 and higher? (ie. using Unity Greeter)?
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How do I change the wallpaper of the login screen?
I would like to set the wallpaper in the login screen (Unity Greeter), how do I do that?
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How do I remove the dots from the login screen?
I can change the background image that Unity Greeter displays, but regardless of the image I choose, it's overlaid with a grid of dots. The dots look OK on the default background, but they look ...
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rotated monitor. login screen needs rotation
I rotated my screen, and once I login, it works fine.
But, the greeter (login) screen hasn't got the message that things are rotated 90 degrees. How can I change the rotation of the login screen?
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Is there a way to shut off showing the user's wallpaper at the login screen?
I don't want to expose my wallpaper to other people who share my computer, is there a way I can disable this feature or work around it?
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How can the login greeter drums be turned off in Ubuntu 15.10?
I want to disable the startup sound effects that play when the login greeter appears after booting Ubuntu 15.10. How can this be done?
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How can I invoke a user switch from the command line?
In 11.10 I used 'gdmflexiserver -xnest' to switch users without logging out however I think gdm has now been completely removed.
I'm trying to bind a keyboard shortcut to do the equivalent of 'Me ...
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Restore Unity Greeter
I've installed XFCE Desktop environment, but when I decide to switch back to Unity, while uninstalling the XFCE packages, the LightDM keep starts like XFCE, and I want to restore the Unity one. I ...
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How to change circular icon to indicate chosen session in unity-greeter?
In Precise (12.04), when I login to lightdm, using the unity-greeter, there's a white circle by my name. For the standard DEs like Unity or XFCE, the circle has a representative icon (Ubuntu symbol ...
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How do I remove the shutdown button only on the login screen?
I don't want anyone to be able to shut down my computer from the login screen. Can I remove the shutdown button at the top right corner of the login screen in Ubuntu 12.04?
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What is the greeter?
When I was troubleshooting an Xorg problem, I came across solutions telling me to set the greeter such as:
greeter-session=unity-greeter
But I am unable to understand:
what a greeter is to begin ...
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How do I change the font on the login screen?
I want to change the font in the login screen - where is the configuration for that?
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How do I set the LightDM wallpaper in Ubuntu 14.04?
In previous versions of Ubuntu, picking one of the default wallpapers meant that you saw it on the login screen as well.
I am now on a clean install of Ubuntu 14.04, the LightDM wallpaper appears to ...
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Unity greeter does not display custom wallpaper
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64 bit . I know this question has popped up many times but I want to make it very clear that none of the posts helped me a bit.
my Problem:
I am unable to get my custom ...
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How do I restrict a user to a specific desktop environment?
I'm running a more or less standard installation of Ubuntu Precise 12.04 and I am quite satisfied with doing everydays task with Unity desktop environment.
When it comes to playing, however, I feel ...
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How to use the new feature of remote login in ubuntu 12.10?
Recently i have upgraded ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10. I saw a new feature of remote login under the login page. How can i use that remote login? I have got the Ubuntu live account. Searched on internet but ...
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Switching desktop environment from Unity?
Basicall I have installed a few desktop environments. And if you are familiar with Unity, you know that the way switching works, is you get this sort of drop-down with all the environments installed, ...
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lightdm: cannot type password on login screen
I am running 12.04 LTS, fully updated. My system is configured to automatically log me in into my account. Auto-login works fine.
However, sometimes I need to access the unity-greeter/lightdm login ...
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How Do I configure LightDM to run seamlessly?
My Unity Greeter/LightDM is working fine in Precise with one exception.
When the greeter first displays the default system wallpaper /usr/share/backgrounds/warty-final-ubuntu.png is visible for 1 ...
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When will the Unity Greeter begin to look like the propositions from the Design Team? [closed]
The Canonical Design Team gave a rather beautiful login screen mockup for the unity greeter. These designs, in my opinion far exceed the current UI that we have for Quantal (which I think is worse, ...
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How can I make lightdm scale on a hidpi screen?
I have a laptop with a 3200x1800 screen. When I start up my laptop, lightdm doesn't scale to the resolution and looks tiny. When I lock the screen afterwards, lightdm scales and looks fine. I found ...
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This session is locked - problem
When I try to login after resuming from a suspend, I get this message with a huge lock icon.
This session is locked - you will be redirected to the unlock dialog automatically in a few seconds
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12.04 desktop login loop
I installed 12.04 from CD in a partition where 8.?? had been working. The installation appeared fine but Ubuntu booted to a black screen. After updating packages and fighting with nvidia drivers for a ...
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Unity greeter background on Xubuntu 12.04
I'm running Xubuntu 12.04 and using the Unity greeter with LightDM. Everything works well except for I can never change the background. I've tried editing the .conf file, editing the gsettings as the ...
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Is it possible to use Caribou on the login screen instead of onboard?
When using GNOME Shell it comes with Caribou, an on screen keyboard that looks really nice (on par with screen keyboards found on iOS and Android). I see that Unity Greeter is configured to use ...
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How to configure login screen in Xubuntu 18.04 - Slick Greeter
I have installed Xubuntu 18.04.
The login screen shows lightdm gtk greeter like login.
I didn't like this type of view so I installed slick greeter through terminal and removed gtk greeter through ...
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Where is Ubuntu's drum roll sound located?
Where is Ubuntu's logon sound (Triple Drum Roll) located? It plays right when you see the Unity Greeter? When I searched up for the startup/login sound, which is what I thought it was, I got results ...
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How to select lightdm greeter theme or appearance?
I'm testing Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with many desktop environments installed.
Currently I have the following:
$ dpkg -l | grep -i greet
ii arctica-greeter 0.99....
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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - How to stop Unity menu from showing on console login screens and RDP
I've got two nearly-identical Ubuntu 16.04 LTS systems, installed from the same DVD.
https://hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/7624/can-someone-recommend-a-low-cost-linux-computer-with-a-hdd-...
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unity-greeter: missing indicators on login screen after logout
Just installed Ubuntu 16.04.
It uses lightdm and unity-greeter.
If only one user is logged in (Unity session), the login screen does not look fine after logout, these indicators are missing: power, ...
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Wrong resolution of login screen
I have a problem with login screen.
1) After boot-up the login screen appears with correct resolution (i.e. my default 3200x1800). However, after a fraction of second it changes to some ~1600x1200. ...
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unity-greeter login background won't change according to the user that is highlighted
I use Ubuntu 12.04.
Recently, I change to use another Accounts Service which could remove certain users from the graphic login screen of unity-greeter. I downloaded source code from a branch of
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Lost gtk theme style in login screen after Compiz crashed
Normally, all controls in login screen (button, textbox, etc..) have the current gtk-theme style. But after Compiz crashed (always happen when I enable or disable a plugin), the style has gone (no ...
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Xubuntu 12.04: Use unity-greeter and set user background automatically [duplicate]
on a fresh Xubuntu 12.04 Installation i have set greeter-session=unity-greeter in
/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.
Also I have installed unity-greeter gnome-settings-daemon.
Now I want to change the ...
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upgrade problem from 16.04 to 17.04
I did try to upgrade the ubuntu 16.04 LTS to 17.04 using information from this link :
After switching you’ll need to run a quick update (it’ll prompt you to do this anyway) and then you’ll need to ...
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How to change the default Desktop environment (That appears in the greeter) in 14.04
Previously I navigated to /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf and changed user-session=ubuntu. lightdm.conf doesn't exist in Ubuntu 14.04 at that location, so how do I change user-session=ubuntu to something ...
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I see gnome-screensaver lock screen instead of unity one. What happened and how to fix it?
For a long time in 14.04.1 LTS I see gnome-screensaver lock screen instead of unity-greeter (or which one is the latest and greatest?). I've already tried to dpkg-reconfigure lightdm and dpkr-...
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/etc/lightdm/unity-greeter.conf file missing
I have no /etc/lightdm/unity-greeter.conf file. but there is /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf and /etc/lightdm/users.conf but there isn't a background=path/to/image line in either of those files.
Related:
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No Greeter on Ubuntu 18.04
I updated to Ubuntu 18.04 and now my greeter is gone.
After reboot my computer, I am automatically logged into my GUI.
I understand Ubuntu now uses GDM3, how can I enable/configure its greeter?
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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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Unity-greeter not using personal wallpaper in Bionic
It just displays the default Ubuntu background instead of the one I set. I didn't have the issue with 17.10 before upgrading.
Does anyone have an idea how to fix that?
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15.10 lightdm broken - gdm works
After some updates to my system lightdm seems to be broken (can't get a session with lightdm to work, always ending up in low graphics mode at boot). If I chose gdm it however works. But I would like ...
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16.04 Restrict the ability to change the desktop wallpaper and greeter wallpaper
I have seen threads with this question so many times but have yet to find a real solution. How can someone restrict permissions, capabilities, etc. of changing a wallpaper both as background and ...
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Changing DPI of login screen (Ubuntu 16.04)
Is it possible to change the DPI of the greeter? I have a new laptop with a 1080p screen and all of the fonts/menus are too small. I can change the scaling setting for my user account but there doesn'...
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How to customize unity-greeter
The only thing I don't like about the default greeter is that the input box with user list etc. is aligned to the left. I want to have it centered. The only ways to customize unity-greeter I found ...
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How do I completely uninstall default Unity Greeter and use text mode login instead? [duplicate]
If I would like to completely uninstall the default Unity Greeter and use text mode login instead, how should I go about it?
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - the regular flavor; with Unity.
I prefer a ...
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Can't get rid of Lubuntu's Login Greeter
If I lock my computer or logout, when I log back in, I want to see unity-greeter. But I can't seem to get rid of Lubuntu's greeter upon logging in.
I once installed Lubuntu but have since uninstalled ...
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How to restore greeter settings changes made in Ubuntu Tweak?
I was playing around with "Ubuntu Tweak" and changed some of the greeter settings. Now I would like to restore these to their defaults.Is there a way to undo all changes made by Ubuntu Tweak?
I am ...
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Why is Lubuntu default desktop environment
So I just wanted to try things out on 14.04, so I did
sudo apt-get install lxde
sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop
When I get to the greeter, it reads
Lubuntu (Default)
Lubuntu Netbook
LXDE
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