Questions tagged [gnome-session]
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I killed a task called 'gnome-session-a' without wanting to and my ubuntu broke up
I am new into the Linux world, so i was trying to access an App Task List Management Tool by the terminal to kill the task of an specific app that bugged, i saw some tutorials in Ubuntu's forums to ...
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Session ends abruptly when disconnecting HDMI cable (Ubuntu 24.04)
I've just upgraded from Ubuntu 23.10 to 24.04 and realized that everytime I disconnect the external monitor (HDMI), the Gnome session ends abruptly and the login screen is shown. On Ubuntu 23.10 that ...
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Errors on my huawei matebok x pro 2020
I am having problems with my Huawei matebook x pro version 2020 device using Ubuntu 22.04.
Since I installed it, my screen has frozen several times, I get a white Windows BSOD style saying "...
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Login too long in Ubuntu 22.04.3 / GNOME 42.9
I find the GNOME (42.9) session login too long, around 45 seconds while the boot sequence takes about 30 seconds.
Checking journalctl -b _UID=1000 I find this error a number of times, the process may ...
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Updates to GNOME always cause breakage due to Smartcard settings not being available
So, this is a headache when you use Yubikeys or smartcards, but to disable Smartcard support in GUI, you have to remove it from the session environments.
Unfortunately, this causes some headaches, as ...
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Will Gnome 43 be included in the upgrades of 22.04 Jammy?
I found information that the bug GLib-CRITICAL is fixed in Gnome 43. Will Gnome 43 be included in an upgrade of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS?
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Can't start a gnome session over ssh
I have a Raspberry Pi with Ubuntu 22.04 running on it. I want to start a gnome session over my PC which also runs on Ubuntu.
I setup my OpenSSH configs for the client (PC) and the server (Pi) to ...
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How do I customise the gnome-shell commandline?
I'm trying to create a new GNOME session that has some custom arguments to gnome-shell (specifically, creating a couple of virtual monitors). But I'm having some strange difficulties.
I've started by ...
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How do I unlock of login the local console from SSH
I would like to remotely unlock and/or log into the local console from SSH. The reason I want this is to unlock the machine for my son so he can play games.
I want it to behave as if he'd typed in my ...
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What is happening to my programs and session?
In the last 2 days, when I am away from my computer for a while and come back, I enter my password and it comes up, but I can't do anything. It has always been that when I come back, my browser is ...
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How to move Ubuntu top bar to primary monitor (Ubuntu 20.04)?
How does one move the Ubuntu top bar (and also the alt-tab and workspaces popups) to the primary monitor?
I have managed to get the Ubuntu dock to the primary monitor by fiddling with dconf.
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How to reset/fix terminal sessoins (server), after I've killed its PID?
I was trying to kill responded window so I used kill -9 PID
and the PID was the ID of /usr/libexec/gnome-terminal-server by mistake. Now, every time I start terminal (even if it is a virtual terminal) ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 somehow starting 2 users?
I have Ubuntu 20.04. I was trying to setup chrome remote desktop and then after I set it up and try to connect I had to choose session it was black screen and when I restarted my computer I prompted ...
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Desktop environment isn't working after trying to install GNOME 40
I have installed Ubuntu 21.04 on my Laptop, everything with the DE was fine till now.
I saw a video on YouTube showing the new Gnome 41. I wanted to install that.
I didn't found a tutorial to install ...
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'gnome-session' command does not start up GUI anymore after updating Ubuntu, returns GLXBadFBConfig error
I am using Ubuntu on Windows with WSL. After updating Ubuntu to the latest version (20.04.3 LTS I believe) I am not able to run the gnome-session command anymore, which would usually allow me to ...
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How to fix broken GNOME on Ubuntu 21.04
I cannot login with GNOME session.
My default Ubuntu is Kubuntu with Plasma, and in the past I have been able to use both Kubuntu and the default GNOME sessions, even with the latest 21.04 release.
I ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 freezes instantly with kernel 5.8.0-45
When I ran apt upgrade yesterday it installed linux-image-5.8.0-45-generic in addition to linux-image-5.8.0-44-generic. But trying to reboot into this new kernel causes Ubuntu to freeze instantly on ...
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How to fix my Ubuntu-sessions after a weird crash?
In the recent days, I've had to reinstall Ubuntu 20.04.2 not once but twice, because of a weird crash. The computer works fine, and when I turn it on and off again, at first it behaves as expected. ...
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where is XDG_CACHE_DIR?
I've been suggested that Gnome Podcasts stores the files in
XDG_CACHE_DIR/downloads
Where is XDG_CACHE_DIR ?
:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
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two errors after starting the GNOME desktop 20.10
Ｈi all
When the system boot is complete, there are two important error messages in ‘gome logs’.
“Failed to start Application launched by gnome-session-binary.”
Desktop environment and version.
OS : ...
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Configure monitors for session?
I have three monitors connected to my Ubuntu 18.04 box, and I'm struggling to get them to come up automatically configured how I want them. They all work by default, but I need to select which is ...
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Brew causing this message on bootup "Error found when loading /home/user/.profile:"
When I restart my PC I get this error:
Error found when loading /home/ray/.profile:
/home/ray/.profile: line 28: /bin/brew: No such file or directory
As a result the session will not be configured ...
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Display manager not working
I recently restarted my computer and the Display Manager stopped working. I got the login screen and as soon as I tried to log in the screen went black.
I went to reinstall gdm3 but that failed to ...
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Default xsession for new users
How do I change the default xsession for new users which will be added to the system in the future?
I know I can change the last/default session for an existing user by editing the setting XSession= ...
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Two gnome-sessions
I have two process gnome-session-binary running on my computer. One is running with my user and one is running with the gnome display manager user, they are running in different tty's.
my user ...
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How to diagnose broken gnome 3 desktop?
Under 19.10, after removing some unused (I thought so) gnome-shell extensions and logging out, I now can't start Gnome anymore.
If I choose a wayland session, it simply goes back to gdm after a short ...
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Gnome-session from ssh X returns "X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication", but xterm works
This is a new post from an previous question - someone said to use gnome-session vs. startx, but that gets 4
X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication
and then quits. This is 18.04 ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 freeze after log in (dark window and mouse frozen)
I am experiencing an error at the start of my Ubuntu session, and I cannot figure out what it is.
I dualed boot my hp pavilion 15 (windows 10) with a version of Ubuntu 18.04. I installed it with the ...
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Working vnc xstartup for 19.04?
Has anyone got a usable xstartup for out-of-the-box 19.04? This minimal version just produces a black screen:
#!/bin/sh
unset SESSION_MANAGER
gnome-session&
I've found half-a-dozen others by ...
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When I lock my PC, the fans get very noisy as if there was some kind of a rogue process
The moment I lock my PC, the fans get really noisy, which means there has to be some kind of CPU/GPU load behind the scenes.
I told myself, I need to know, what process is doing this, so I've crafted ...
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After upgrading to 19.04 gnome-session fails to start
Upgraded from 18.10 to 19.04. On boot GDM starts normally, and after I enter my password it fails to start GNOME. It goes back to GDM
This is an Nvidia Optimus laptop. I ran Dingo from USB and ...
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Messed up my PATH environment variable and can't login to desktop
To get an maven environment variable to run, I tried several options. Basically, I followed some options from Ubuntu Community Page, such as ~/.pam_environment, /etc/bash.bashrc and I don't really ...
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Automatically Remember current Running Applications
Hello Guys I am facing an odd issue, I am trying to enable the auto-save-session on Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS, I try to follow some answers already here, but I wasn't able to restore my gnome session.
I ...
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logout script to restore "clean" user environment with 18.04 Desktop? [duplicate]
I'm configuring a bunch of laptops for a teaching lab, running 18.04 Desktop. They have an admin account and a standard account for students. I would like the student account to behave as much like ...
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Logout and then immediately login again with one command
Is it possible to logout the current user and immediately login the same user again with one command in the terminal?
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Ubuntu 18.04 gnome-session broken post installation script
On a a minimal install of Ubuntu 18.04, I attempted to switch to a vanilla gnome desktop by running:
sudo apt-get install vanilla-gnome-desktop
This installation failed due to this bug. This issue is ...
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Gnome-session not installing because of gnome-session-common even though it is installed and updated
So anyway after I figured out how to install customizer, I began testing with chroot (or the terminal feature to install packages and customize changes)
gnome-session says that gnome-session-common ...
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Wayland not available after upgrade to 17.10
I cannot choose wayland in the login screen, can it be a driver problem?
lspci -v
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Caicos XT [Radeon HD 7470/8470 / R5 235/...
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Gnome session broken on Ubuntu 17.10
My dell inspiron 660s with intel graphics ran Ubuntu 16.04.3 for a year with no issues, and I decided to give 17.10 a try.
After installing 17.10, ubuntu restricted extras, lowlatency kernel, and ...
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Make evince save the session and reopen documents on system restart
I am using evince, but it might be any other pdf/document reader for that matter.
I tried this guide, but it did not work (for evince).
I want to make Ubuntu reopen all the documents, which I had ...
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How to set default umask in Ubuntu 17.04?
In the past, I have always set umask at ~/.profile. I set a umask of 077 so my documents get a permission of 600 (rw-------). But setting this at ~/.profile no longer works in Ubuntu 17.04.
So as new ...
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GLib-CRITICAL: g_environ_setenv: assertion 'value != NULL' failed - asked to log in twice
Anything wrong with my gnome-session?
I turned my computer on, logged in, waited a little while (10-20 seconds) and then was asked to log-in again. The second time it worked, but apport has asked me ...
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XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP set to GNOME even though I'm running unity 7
Running Ubuntu 16.10
Something is setting XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP to GNOME, and it's messing up my unity-control-center. If I run bash -x it's not being set in the output, but can still be seen by ...
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Login fails at X_GLXCreateContext
Yesterday I installed some updates like I always do, and I noted that there was a new kernel version and a new version of the nvidia driver. Today, the resolution at the login screen was very low and ...
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Wayland + Crash + Log File
I'm trying to track down a crash (or more accurately a hanging) of Wayland + Gnome on Ubuntu 16.04. I'm trying to find a wayland log file like I have for Xorg (e.g. /var/log/Xorg.0.log). So I can ...
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14.04 Login loop - DMs don't work but gnome-session works from xterm - No Nvidia
Lots of posts related to login loop issues. However, none of the solutions work.
.Xauthority file has permissions -rw------- 1 mangouser mangouser
/tmp folder has permissions drwxrwxrwt 16 root ...
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Killing GUI background processes on logout
I am logging into Ubuntu 16.04, and have written a startup application that runs redshift in the background:
exec redshift
To start this upon login, I added it under Ubuntu's Startup Applications.
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Play logout sound when Gnome session ends
I want to know a way by which I can run a script, which would play a logout sound, just before Gnome session ends.
By Gnome session ends I mean when I click Logout, Restart or Shutdown
I am using ...
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15.10 freezes every 10 minutes
Every freeze is preceeded typically by the following sylsog entry. It is a gst_discoverer_discover call (one of several hundred recorded immediately before every freeze) as an example:
Oct 20 19:35:...
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Unable to reinstall unity-desktop. currently having GNOME
I am tryint to install ubuntu-desktop but it shows following error :
The following packages have unmet dependencies: ubuntu-desktop : Depends: ubuntu-session but it is not going to be installed
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