Questions tagged [login-screen]
Questions about the login screen, specifically customizing/troubleshooting it.
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Black login/logout screen on Kubuntu 22.04
Operating System: Kubuntu 22.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.7
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.92.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3
Kernel Version: 6.5.0-27-generic (64-bit)
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Ubuntu logs out to empty screen
I've got several machines running Ubuntu 20.04, but on some of them when user logs out it goes to an empty purple screen with mouse cursor. Nothing can be done to log in again - reboot is needed, then ...
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how can i find my ubuntu De password?
I installed Ubuntu DE for my GCloud with this guide. Everything went smoothly but when I connected to Ubuntu DE with Chrome remote Ubuntu it needed a password for my username to log in. Where can I ...
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Changing Login Screen from List to Manual Entry?
Is it possible to change the login screen so that instead of clicking on your username you have to type it in?
I did ask ChatGPT this and the first time the answer it gave me seemed to work but every ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 black screen
I do have dual boot in my laptop(HP core i5 8th gen).Ubuntu goes black screen for inactivity and does not wake up.Even the login screen goes black after loading.I tried to increase the sleep time and ...
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Blockscreen lost in Ubuntu 22.04
I'm having problems with the behaviour of ubuntu 22.04 desktop. I don't know why, the block button stoped working. I mean the "lock" icon key in the Logitech MX Keys. I think it stoped ...
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Yubikey inserted always asking for smart card login and no longer for password
I'm using Ubuntu 23.10. My company provided me a Yubikey for VPN access and everything works fine. However whenever I turn my pc on, the gdm screen only asks for smart card login (and no longer for ...
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Why does my Ubuntu look like a terminal and not like the nice-looking UI that I am expecting? [duplicate]
I recently installed Ubuntu on my old MacBook Pro 2016 (ubuntu-22.04.3-live-server-amd64.iso). Why does the UI look like a terminal (see the following picture) rather than all the pretty UIs that I ...
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Center the login screen on Ubuntu 23.10
Since I got my Ubuntu 23.10 installed the login screen text box stays on the left, whereas I believe it should be in the center of the screen. Here is a picture of my login screen:
I don't know if ...
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Black screen after disk login
I tried logging into my laptop and after I unlock the disk I get a screen with text that appears for seconds and then a black screen. I have tried to open the terminal using ctrl + alt + f2/f4/F5 etc ...
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Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS (KDE) login screen hangs intermittently
I have just installed Ubuntu Studio 22.04 onto Dell Precision 7530 laptop. I've come across a bothersome issue:
The login screen hangs occasionally - i can maybe type one character, but then it ...
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can't have multiple login screen
I am trying to use Ubuntu 22.04 on a PC and multiple X terminal (vcxsrv on window)
XDMCP and X-11 works but i can't have multiple greeter running at the same time :
Until i login on the server screen,...
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After entering the password and hitting enter the screen is blurred
Ubuntu boots normally and reaches the login screen. After entering the password and hitting enter, screen goes blurred. Is there any way to troubleshoot this problem?
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Gnome error during login
At the time of login in Ubuntu 23.10 & gnome 45.1, I'm faced with this screen.
after repeated attempts of logging-out & restarting, it finally lets me in.
I tried to pull some logs using:
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How to permanently set a custom keyboard layout for Linux console, login screen (GDM) and desktop session (GNOME/Wayland/XWayland)
I'd like to have simple instructions of how to permanently and consistently set up a custom keyboard layout configuration for all of these user interfaces in a standard Ubuntu desktop installation ...
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Keyboard Layout Login Screen
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04. I changed my password to one which is not even in the Latin alphabet. How can I change the keyboard layout on the login screen?
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ubuntu 22.04 gdm3 blank screen on boot
I'm running Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS and can't get gdm or lightdm to work correctly on boot. When it comes up the screens are blank, but the process is running (see below).
nvidia-smi returns correct ...
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No Desktop after version upgrade
Thinks look dark!
After doing a system upgrade from 22.04 to 23.04 my laptop displays a black screen, not even wallpaper. However, I can login via ssh. I've flailed about in ignorance and gdm.service ...
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Disarranged login screen in Ubuntu 22.04
Whenever I wake up my computer from suspend the login screen acts kind of weirdly.
It's all the way in the top left and then jumps back to normal a second later when I start typing.
Do you have any ...
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How to change the resolution of the login window?
I've installed Ubuntu 22.04.3 gnome and My device resolution is 1600x900. But the login screen resolution seems like 1024x768. I've tried changing the resolution from the settings manger but the login ...
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Screen flickering on login attempt
Yesterday I had an update, today when something weird is happening, when the machine boots it all seems fine but when I reach the login screen the screen glitches and flickers, it's completely ...
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Screen glitching when login user in Kubuntu 22.04 [temporary fixed?]
I just getting update & the system requires me to restart. I do it like the way it told me & everything is normal.
But right after my laptop shows the user login screen, it immediately ...
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Windows 11 dualboot ubuntu 22.04, casually crashing or back to login screen in linux
The problem is pretty much in the title, windows work perfectly, I deactivated the fast start beacuse I read can cause problems. I have windows in a ssd, ubuntu in a usb and shared hdd with windows.
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Login loop both from GUI and console
Whenever I try to login to my Ubuntu desktop, it asks for login in a loop.
I tried to login from console (Ctrl+Alt+F3), but it's also not working. Console also asks for login in a loop. Now I am ...
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Xubuntu 22.04 freezes on login screen
I'm running Xubuntu 22.04 on a Lenovo Thinkcentre M710s SFF (no Nvidia) that I bought used. There have been occasional problems with it turning on, but it has mostly worked.
Today, the machine booted ...
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Login screen disappears after a few seconds
I'm on Ubuntu Studio 22.04.2 LTS (5.15.0-76 low latency 64)
When I boot up and get to the login screen, I have a few seconds to type the password ans enter before I get an empty black screen with a ...
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After upgrading to 22.04 screen stays at a black screen when logging in
I'm using a Lenovo ThinkPad P15s. I recently upgraded Ubuntu to 22.04, but after rebooting I can't seem to log in to my account, and the screen stays blank. I performed a system restore and was able ...
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etc/update-motd.d added script which executes. But after change the old version is being executed
My script executes OK. But when I altered it on login the old one is still executing instead of the amended one. Do I need to refresh/restart something (except system :) ) for my changes to be ...
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Can not login to (graphical terminal) and stuttering
I'm new to Linux and chose Ubuntu onto recommendation of The Odin project.
I got an issue that everything is slow and laggy (stuttering) and I tried to fix it with doing system updates. According to ...
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Ubuntu login screen seems like 22.04 after updating to 23.04
I updated Ubuntu 22.04 to 23.04. But after booting up. The login screen seems like it is from 22.04. When I suspend and see the login page it seems like 23.04. And the graphics of buttons at login ...
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Not able to enter password for few seconds at login screen in Kubuntu 23.04
I am using Kubuntu 23.04 on HP Pavilion laptop.
Everything is working fine except one problem at login screen.
I am not able to type a password for the first few seconds(around 10 seconds). Nothing ...
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How to customize the login avatar? I want to remove the circle that is automatically put around my picture
The default avatar looked really nice as a transparent ping outline of a person. It had no circle around it so I wanted to put a zergling as my avatar as transparent .png. Unfortunately it ...
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All users not visible after screen lock. Only logged in user is visible
When i lock screen from top right pull down menu. I am not able to login into other users as rest of users are not visible. When I press ctrl alt f1 while logged in I sent to black screen with a ...
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Make GNOME keyboard shortcuts available on lockscreen (login screen )
I configured some usefull custom keyboard shortcut via gnome built-in shortcut feature (for example a keyboard shortcut for quick suspending ).
However, when I lock my computer, they are not available ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 unable to boot to desktop, stuck at command-line login screen
Ubuntu 22.04 unable to boot to desktop, stuck at command-line login screen after I ran sudo update-initramfs -u
and sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target
It only shows login terminal login ...
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how to resolve D-Bus system message bus
after an update i restarted my system after the restart i got stuck at the loading screen after pressing the F2 it says
Failed to start System Logging service.
Failed to start D-Bus system Message Bus....
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Installed nvidia drivers: black screen with blinking cursor
I was running Wayland on 22.10 using nouveau on a GTX 550 Ti, and decided to install nvidia's 390 drivers using the Additional Drivers tool. The installation finished with asking me to reboot. After ...
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Unable to login to ubuntu laptop after restart with incomplete upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04
I have a dell xps laptop. Yesterday I was running Ubuntu 16.04 and was trying to upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04 from the command line.
. I ran the following commands in the command line
sudo apt update &...
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Opening laptop shows regular screen for split second before log-in
Upon opening my laptop, the screen always flickers to the regular desktop with all the windows open and readable before going to the log-in screen.
I'm on a ThinkPad E470 currently running Ubuntu 22....
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super + space not working in login page
on the login page, changing the keyboard language is not possible with super + space shortcut. by pressing super + space it shows changing language popup but does not affect keyboard language.
also in ...
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Is it possible to configure GNOME settings on Ubuntu through dconf database? Or is it possible to have a custom login (greeter) screen on Ubuntu?
I have a custom login screen with a welcome screen on my CentOS machine, and I am trying to figure out how to do this on my Ubuntu as well.
My /etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/00-login-screen looks like this:
[org/...
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Input not supported on 75Hz monitor
After getting this new monitor, I have always had display issues with it. This isn’t is just normal Ubuntu, I’ve had issues with every flavor and linux distrobution. For some reason, displaying ...
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Unable to login, blank screen does not revive, after upgrade to 22.04
Yesterday I attempted an OS upgrade from Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS to 22.04 LTS. The machine being upgraded was a new Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 10. Following the upgrade I have two severe problems ...
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mouse and keyboard not working in Ubuntu 22.04
I'm running Ubuntu 22.04. I just got this box (HP Z220 Workstation) back from a student who was using it successfully. However, when I boot, my mouse and keyboard are not working at login.
The machine ...
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Loop login - /tmp permission issue
I am facing loop login issue on Ubuntu 22.10.
I was able to log into the shell and observed the following /tmp permissions:
drwxr-xr-x 20 arnaud arnaud 60K mars 24 08:55 tmp
I was able work around ...
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Authentication Required popup blocked access to my laptop
I see this popup after reboot and it doesn't allow me to login into my laptop. Also I can't enter my password into the textbox.
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Ubuntu 22.04 won’t let put the password
I upgraded ubuntu to version 22.04 just today, when it finshed the upgrade, it restarted the machine, however since then when boots and gets to login screen, I can see my username but it won’t move so ...
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Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS. Login issue after suspend / inactivity
Sometimes i can't login after screen lock due to inactivity or suspend. I type in password, it processes 5 seconds and then clears out the password. Trying several times doesn't work. Only after ...
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Solving "Kernel Panic - Not Syncing: Attempted to Kill Init!" Error During Ubuntu Installation on Old PC
I am currently using Windows 7 on my PC and I am trying to install Ubuntu using a USB drive that I flashed with Balena Etcher. However, when I insert the USB into the port on my old PC and try to ...
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How to take a screenshot of login screen
I want to take screenshot of login screen in ubuntu 22.04.1.
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