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I've been tweaking with my system appearance lately, and wanted to change Gnome's Display manager and change the login screen theme.

After boot, the display shows the following for few seconds:

/dev/sda5: clean, 754129/10690560 files, 13222358/42732800 
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Ubuntu 19.04 muathasus tty1

muathasus login: muath
Password :
Last login: Sat Jun 15 15:16:42 IDT 2019 on tty1
Welcome to Ubuntu 19.04 (GNU/Linux 5.0.0-16-generic x86_64)

* Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com
* Management : https://landscape.canonical.com
* Support : https://ubuntu.com/advantage

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3 updates can be installed immediately.
0 of these updates are security updates.

muath@muathasus:~$

Pressing ctrl-alt-f1 or ctrl-alt-f7 have no effect. I could continue to desktop manually by writing startx or by sudo service start gdm3.

I have Ubuntu 19.04 with X.org drivers, and haven't upgraded lately. Also tried to switch from gdm3 to lightdm or to slim, with no effect.

Additional:

Output of systemctl status gdm.service include:

Jun 15 16:14:56 muathasus gdm-password][3554]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file

Trying to change gnome's display manager using sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm3 returns

Error: can't open /lib/modules/5.0.0-15-generic/update/dkms

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I finally solved it, it appeared to me that systemctl get-default returns multi-user.target. I don't know what this affects and how, but I changed the default to graphical.target:

systemctl set-default graphical.target 

and it just works now!

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