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Having to manually start gdm everytime
I recently installed lightdm, Big mistake. It was terrible, So i then un-installed it using systemctl remove lightdm.service.
However, I am still having issues. First is that on startup it still has ...
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18.04 `sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm` falls back to gdm3 after unity greeter
Situation
Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS
ubuntu-desktop 1.417.4
ubuntu-unity-desktop 0.1
lightdm 1.26.0-0ubuntu1
Action
Starting off from a GNOME enviroment, I have run sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm, chosen ...
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I have two different login screens on two separate ttys
When I boot up, lock or switch users in Ubuntu 18.04 I have two separate login screens that I can... well, basically choose from. One is the classic Ubuntu login and the other seems to be the gdm ...
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Unable to lock firefox.desktop file to dock
I created a .Desktop file for Firefox (I downloaded the nightly version from their website). Here is the file.
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Nightly
Comment=This is the nightly entry ie firefox ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop Menu Bar and upper panel missing, windows cannot be dragged, closed etc [duplicate]
I spent the entire day yesterday til 3am trying to fix this, and all the possible solutions you can find on the web just don't work for me.
I agreed to some regular updates on Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS, all ...
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How do I find the gear icon to change from GNOME to Unity in 17.10?
On the login screen, we are supposed to click a gear icon to change between graphical different session types (such as different desktop environments). But I cannot see this gear icon in Ubuntu 17.10.
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Can't switch from Unity to Gnome using gear icon
I have recently installed ubuntu-desktop/unity and gnome on my machine. When login prompts, I click on gear icon to switch to gnome environment but what I get is a hanged screen;on pressing Enter, ...
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How to set unity as default after installing ubuntu-gnome-desktop in Ubuntu 16.04?
Recently I installed gnome-desktop in my Unity Ubuntu 16.04.Now I want to set my Unity desktop environment as default.
I installed Gnome by using these commands :
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-gnome-...
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Can you have a desktop environment without a display manager?
The following article nicely explains the differences between a display manager, a window manager, and a desktop environment:
What is the relationship between Unity, Gnome, Gnome 3, Compiz, Metacity, ...
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ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 distribution upgrade pauses "configuring lightdm" ... "Default display manager:" gdm, lightdm
Apologies if I overlooked this in the docs somewhere. Let me document something just incase it was missed.
My upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04 pauses on a package configuration. The first time I did ...
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Stuck at boot screen 12.04
I tried to install a lightdm greeter theme but after dissapointing results I chose to try gdm instead, which prety much reconfigured my desktop theme, so I chose to remove them both. Since the last ...
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Ubuntu automatically logs in as gdm how do I stop this?
Not sure what I did but as of this morning ubuntu on my imac has been auto logging in as gdm. I've tried the following remedies
reinstall lightdm and ubuntu-desktop
delete auto-login and set auto-...
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Are there instructions for removing or rebuilding the graphical interface?
Recently, I could not log in on a regular user desktop installation through the graphical login screen. However, I was able to successfully log in by switching (CTRL+ALT+F1) to terminal mode. ...
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Problems with both LightDM and GDM using DisplayLink USB monitor
When I use LightDM, it will auto-login to desktop just fine. The only problem is Compiz doesn't work, and menus don't work. I can't right-click the desktop, and I can't select program menus in the top ...
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Macbook Pro 8.1 Keyboard Backlight on Ubuntu 11.04 With KDE
Can anyone tell me how to enable my keyboard's backlight? It works fine using gdm and Unity. I recently installed kde 4.6.5 and started using kdm, everything works fine as in unity, only my keyboard's ...
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How to configure my login screen to remember last session I used?
I'm using 11.04 and I want it to remember the last session I use, unity or ubuntu classic, where can I configure it?
Thanks.
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GDM session list borked
I must have done something especially stupid, but I observe the following behavior:
When I start gdm, I see the "Warning: unable to load /etc/gdm/custom.conf: file not found" message.
My GDM session ...
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Unity doesn't load anymore
I installed 11.04 a few days ago and the first few boots unity loaded as expected.
But now its just booting into GDM.
I did get one popup about it not being supported on my machine (After the it had ...
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How can I remove "Ubuntu Netbook Edition" option from the GDM session menu?
I was trying out Unity and then I uninstalled it but there is still an Ubuntu Netbook Edition option in the GDM session list. Accidentally clicking on that causes the user to log in to a broken ...
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