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How to login back to GDM3?
I installed packages to run python code, but during installation some packages conflicted between those that were already installed and I decided to ask about this chat gpt, he suggested removing all ...
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Cannot log in to session after update with gdm3
I was running Regolith (an i3-based WM) with Ubuntu 22.10.
I just updated my laptop to Ubuntu 23.04 using the do-release-upgrade.
After booting, I could access the login session (which is GDM), but ...
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Have to manually start gmd3 after installing and uninstalling KDE Plasma
Some months ago I installed KDE Plasma, didn't like it much and uninstalled it again. Now every time I start my laptop, a black screen comes up and asks for login name and password. After that I have ...
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How do I can manager and change and add anything(like : software) on a display manager like GDM before login user desktop?
Unfortunately, I could not get an answer, so I will ask my question again.
Do the sound and keyboard settings, reset the operating system and the clock, as well as the various options of the desktop ...
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When installing various desktop environments, how can one prevent user interactions requesting a selection of display managers like LightDM and GDM3? [duplicate]
I have a Bash setup script for Ubuntu. It is intended to be designed to minimise the user interactions needed to get to a fully set up system.
In the script, there might be commands like the following:...
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Can not access tty terminal
My HP Probook has problems with Display manager. Basically, for now I can not access even login page (While I am on login page, I can access tty isn't it ? But it is unreachable for now).
I do not ...
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How to disable the "screen locking disabled" notification in gnome 3.38?
This message pops up after every login, this started happening when I removed the desktop icons gnome extension - DING https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/2087/desktop-icons-ng-ding/ (I'm using ...
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Getting issue with display on Ubuntu 18.04.4
While running docker for scraping/splash, I kept getting notification of "Empty Trash" which indicated that the disk was out of space.
After few seconds,GUI got stuck. I powered of the ...
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Why is my ubuntu display manager doing this?
I rebooted my ubuntu machine and this happened with my display manager - the options on the sidebar jumbled together. How can I fix this?
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Always loopback into loginscreen: How do I fix it? (Ubuntu 18.04, gdm3)
Installed a fresh 18.04 on a Lenovo T440. After 2 days, Ubuntu presents me a loopback into login screen every time I try to login.
ALT + STRG + F2 brings me into console, where I can proceed with ...
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Change lock screen to gdm in kubuntu (kde)
I have installed gdm3 on Kubuntu and changed the default display manager from sddm to gdm3, and the login screen works fine, it looks just like Ubuntu. but the lock screen (when you press ctrl+alt+L) ...
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How do I switch back to LightDM from GDM3 in Ubuntu Mate 18.10
So while trying to solve Logitech TouchPad T650 intermittent freezing issue, I installed Solaar ( https://pwr.github.io/Solaar/ ) via Synaptic. During the installation, it asked me to select between ...
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Reconfigure the display-manager non-interactively
I am trying to change the default display-manager on a Ubuntu 18.04.1 in a non-interactive way to do this in a script.
Everything works as expected when using
dpkg-reconfigure gdm3
dpkg-...
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GDM freezes when logging out in 18.04
I have recently done a clean install of Ubuntu 18.04. I have noticed that if I choose the 'Log Out' option, after logging out of the session, the GDM screen does appear, but there is no cursor, and I ...
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Is gdm3 preferred to lightdm?
I have hard a hard time finding good information on the performance difference between display managers on Ubuntu (specifically between lightdm and gdm3).
With Ubuntu switching to Gnome, I would ...
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Do new installs of 17.10 have a "cog" at sign-in to choose display server?
I have 3 installations of 17.10. Two are upgrades from previous versions, which were done a month or so ago. These are vms on a Mac (MBP); one on Fusion and one on Virtualbox. These two installs ...
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Can't switch to gdm3 using sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm3
I was looking for a way to switch to gdm3 from lightdm, when I found this answer.
So I tried to apply it, and entered sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm3, then a selection screen appeared with 2 options: gdm3 ...
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Unable to switch to gdm3 in 17.04
I'm trying to get the full gnome experience and I was trying to switch from lightdm to gdm3. I did this by changing /etc/X11/default-display-manager.
The problem is that, after closing the session, ...
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Is there an alternative lock-screen available? [duplicate]
I'm using lockscreen that came with Ubuntu Gnome. It's called GDM. can I replace it with LightDM or lockscreen that comes with KDE , LXDE or others?
what are the names of these packages? how to ...
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How to start gnome wayland desktop from lightdm?
I installed Gnome 3.24 (gnome-shell and gnome-desktop-environment) on a previous Ubuntu 17.04 (Unity) installation.
I can start gnome Wayland session from display manager gdm3, but not from Lightdm. ...
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Which display manager should I choose when installing Gnome 3 [closed]
When I was trying to install Gnome 3 on Ubuntu 16.04, just to get an experience, I got the below message. That dilemma forced me to search the site and found this and many others.Which display manager ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 (64bit, Unity 7.4.0) stucks in splash screen after enabled gdm3
I am trying to set gdm display manager on fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04 with unity 7.4.0
Installed and enabled gdm:
sudo apt-get install gdm
sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm
After reboot PC stucks in ...
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Which display manager is used by default in Ubuntu GNOME 16.04?
I can't find this information, and while trying to install the nvidia drivers for my laptop, I got a message explaining that I had 2 display managers installed, and that seemed strange.
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Stuck on splash screen, does not progress to login manager
My login manager stopped loading, for no apparent reason, instead tty7 was a black screen I could type into but with no effect. I tried several variations of service lightdm restart service sddm ...
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Do logins by the gdm (or lightdm) user in auth.log mean my system is breached?
Please look at this auth.log (from Ubuntu 14.04) I have provided and tell me who this gdm user is and why there are all these unauthenticated logins? I am freaked out; please help!
Here's the /var/...
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How to end X session?
Is there a generic way to orderly end X session regardless of display mangager or window manager?
More specifically, I use different windows managers for different users, and after reboot one user ...
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Where can I find the old GDM2 Ubuntu login theme?
I've installed the Mint Display Manager (based on the old GDM2 code).
I'm looking for the most recent GDM2 theme that shipped with Ubuntu before they moved to LightDM, something that looks similar to ...
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Is there a way to use LightDM and Unity but get a lock screen like GDM in 12.10?
I like the GDM locked screen theme a lot! But even if i set GDM as the Display Manager but log in to Unity session,the lock screen remains that oh LightDM...
I want to use LightDM as my login Display ...
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How do I switch from LightDM to GDM?
How do I switch from the default display manager (Lightdm) to the older display manager (GDM)?
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How do I make GDM the default display manager?
I believe my question says what I am trying to achieve.
Steps I tried to make gdm my default display manager:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure than select gdm as my default.
Edit /etc/X11/default-display-...
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How do I make GDM use the upstream GNOME theme?
I have installed GNOME 3.4
And according to Gnome 3.4,when i reconfigure my display manager to GDM i should get a login screen like this-
But when I reconfigure my display manager to GDM my screen ...
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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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Why use a Display manager?
I'm currently trying to free as much memory as possibile because I'm using my laptop for scientific simulations. One of the things I made is disable gdm and using login+startx to start GNOME session. ...
