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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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Unable to switch user after upgrade to 24.04
I just upgraded from 23.10 to 24.04, after the upgrade dialog popped up. Since the upgrade, I'm unable to switch users.
At the login screen (lightdm), I can select any user, but once a session for the ...
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Grey background overlays GDM3 wallpaper
i have a weird issue for a while. I have a GDM login screen on Ubuntu 23.04 set via Login Manager Settings, but when launching the system, wallpapers shows for a second and then gets overlayed by grey ...
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lightdm change badge icon login for "ubuntu on wayland"
I have changed cinnamon login badge icon with:
/usr/share/unity-greeter/custom_cinnamon_badge.png
I would like to change the "ubuntu on wayland" badge (which is empty) in the same way, for ...
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LightDM theme is not acting normal
fellow Ubuntu Enthusiasts! I recently installed LightDM via sudo apt install lightdm and then installed lightdm settings tool via sudo apt-get install lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings
And now, LightDM ...
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How to auto start Xserver after boot?
I was "Desktop Environment Hopping" and I broke the Unity DE in ubuntu. I have reinstalled the unity desktop. But ubuntu is not entering into login screen gui or gnome shell gui after boot.
I am able ...
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Brand logo after login
I changed my desktop to Ubuntu Mate and came back to Ubuntu default desktop. Now after entering my password I see my laptop brand logo for a few seconds. After that Ubuntu starts normally so is not a ...
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Ubuntu-desktop installed on Ubuntu Server. login screen goes nowhere
Followed these instructions How do you run Ubuntu Server with a GUI? on a new install of Ubuntu Server.
Partial success. I get the purple Ubuntu login screen, my user account is selected, and I can ...
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Infinite Login Loop after Upgrade to 18.04 [duplicate]
Well, the title pretty much says it all.
I can log into the terminal by pressing CTRL-ALT-F3.
How can I get the user interface back?
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Computer reboots itself after login - Ubuntu 16.04
I have a really weird problem:
I have an Ubuntu 16.04.5 Desktop with two users, one regular and one with sudo privileges.
After I turn on the PC, it boots to the LightDM Login. If I log in to the ...
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Password less account asking me to type the password
I am using Ubuntu 19.10 with unity DE have an administrator account named as abhishek.
Today I created one more password less account named as public from GUI.
I set the type of account as 'Standard' ...
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Persistent Login loop 16.04.3
Received workstation with Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS preinstalled from Dell.
Computer: Dell Precision 3630
Login loop immediately upon open box.
ctrl alt F1 works and I have access to 2 accounts I created ...
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Problem: Ubuntu 18.04 greeter will not display more than 50 users
How can I make all my usernames show up in the greeter in Ubuntu 18.04 (desktop)? I've tried various different greeters including
unity-greeter
kylin-greeter
lightdm-gtk-greeter
lightdm-kde-greeter
...
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Enable fingerprint reader login in 18.04 w/ Unity [duplicate]
I have a Dell laptop with fingerprint reader built in. I just ran lsusb with the following result:
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 138a:00a6 ...
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Ubuntu MATE took over start up [duplicate]
I was trying out different desktop environments on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and ran sudo apt install ubuntu-mate-desktop. It worked, but when I restarted my computer Ubuntu MATE took over start up and the ...
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How to fix broken login screen on Ubuntu 19.04?
I recently updated to Ubuntu 19.04 and I installed gnome tweaks to install themes.
Unfortunately I installed a login screen theme without backing up the original. Because of that theme my login ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 wont login
I have tried this
Method1:
sudo apt-get purge lightdm
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lightdm
dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
Method2:
ls -ld /tmp
Check for the first 10 letters in the left: ...
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Lightdm is not changing background on Ubuntu 18.04
I installed Ubuntu 18.04.1 and right away installed Unity and configured lightdm instead of gdm and then removed gnome-shell while in unity enviornment.
Since then no problem except lightdm won't ...
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Immediate logoff after login on Ubuntu 16.04
I try to quickly summarize the problem and what happened (details about system are below). I know there exist many similar questions however none of the answers did help in my case. I did not fiddle ...
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Get rid of unity desktop on Ubuntu 18.04
I've installed Ubuntu 18.04, and everything worked excellent until I decided to try Unity desktop. Bottom line - I've uninstalled unity desktop completely.
But! I have some stuff that didn't recover ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 login loop problem with gnome; unity works fine
I just upgraded to 18.04 from 16.04. The upgrade went through with no error messages, but I hit the login loop right after the upgrade: at the login page, after typing the correct password, the screen ...
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Looping login after foolish compiz setting tweaks
After messing around with compiz and ignoring a perfectly good warning that told me this could make my desktop unusable... I am unable to login to Ubuntu (on my work lappy...yay), it simply loops back ...
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Unity X Server not active without physical login
I'm using my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with Unity 7.4.5 as a remote server as well as a desktop computer. Unfortunately, when I reboot Ubuntu, I can't get X server benchmarks to run without physically going to ...
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Running login script in Unity for 16.04
I have a Ubuntu 16.04 client computer that is connected to LDAP (FreeIPA). It takes its users from IPA LDAP. Accordingly, we have a mkhomedir directive in /etc/pam.d/common-session file that creates ...
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Unity has a broken ui on one user but not another
My main admin account works fine with unity but when I login with my LFS account I made from the LFS tutorials which are a "standard" account type it's broken. When I click and drag on the desktop ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 Unity - Can't login to my Ubuntu SSO account from Unity Control Center
I am using Ubuntu 18.04 with Unity 7.
Screenshot
of problem
When I entered the credentials as shown in screenshot in settings (unity-control-center) and pressed enter, nothing happens. Is it related ...
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Messed up with a Window Manager, how do I disable it from GRUB menu?
I was following a guide to install i3-gaps and successfully changed to it from the login screen. When I logged in from there, nothing loaded up (blank desktop) and it seems as if the keyboard won't ...
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Ubuntu 17.10 can startx in tty2 but stuck in login loop except on unity
I recently (this week) updated my Ubuntu 17.10 and installed the NVIDIA driver. And:
I am stuck in a login loop and tried everything at: 17.04 update login loop
I can log into unity
I can startx in ...
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Unable to login to Ubuntu 16.04 admin user account
Unable to login to Ubuntu 16.04. I had issue of getting only blank desktop screen earlier for which I ran below commands given in other thread to resolve the issue.
sudo rm -fr ~/.cache/compizconfig-...
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Ubuntu 16.04: Unity doesn't load basic GUI after login
When I login I'm presented with only my desktop wallpaper.
Context menu works, I can open terminal and open other apps from there, but there is no basic things like dash and panel at the top.
The ...
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Open a Web Page at User's First Login
I'd like to add a file that opens Google Chrome on a specific Web page the first time a user logs in to an Ubuntu box.
I am guessing it should go in the /etc/skel directory.
I don't know how to make ...
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Unable to login to gnome session after upgrading to 17.10
I just upgraded from ubuntu 16.04 to 17.10, when logging in, I have three options:
Unity
Ubuntu on Xorg
GNOME on Xorg
However, I can only login using unity, the other two options make the screen ...
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Ubuntu MATE 16.04 sends me back to login page when waking from suspend
For some reason, whenever I wake my computer from suspend and log in, five seconds later it sends me back to a login screen, but its different. instead of the classic GNOME 2 login screen, it sends me ...
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Recommends : unity8-desktop-session but it is not going to be installed
I'm not able to login into system because of below error.
screenshot for the command apt-cache policy ubuntu-session
Can someone please help me how to resolve this package issue.
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Why is Ubuntu 17.10 locking the screen and asking for password?
I'm using 17.10 with Gnome. (I upgraded from Unity).
When I close my laptop and reopen I get a duff looking password prompt:
Why is this? There is only one account on this machine and under User I ...
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How to bring back drum roll sound in Ubuntu 17.10 when system is ready for user to log in
In Ubuntu 16.04, when I powered on my computer, the drum roll sound would be played right before I was presented with the Login interface. After I upgraded to Ubuntu 17.10 the drum roll sound is no ...
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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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How do I prevent unattended screen rotation at login?
Recently I've installed Ubuntu 16.04 on Lenovo ThinkPad X230 Tablet. It works just great! I'm experiencing only two minor problems, both are wired with the convertible screen. This one, that annoys me ...
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Lock the screen to Ubuntu lock screen from terminal in non-Unity?
It is basically the same question as in this, but using gnome-screensaver-command -l locks the screen to GNOME3 styled login screen, not Ubuntu lock screen.
On this renewed question for 14.04, the ...
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Cannot login to Ubuntu Gnome or Unity 7 Session
I got the following weird problem. Due to some hardware incompatibilities I was forced to switch off my laptop the hard way (pressing the off button). This caused a state in which I was unable to ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 freezes after login except with nomodeset
I just downloaded and installed Ubuntu 16.04.3 for my Sony Vaio Z Series laptop.
After the installation finished, a message asked me to restart. When I clicked on it, it just froze, so I shut down ...
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Can' log into Ubuntu using GUI
Evening.
I recently upgrade Ubuntu to 17.04 and ran into a problem. I can log into any user that existed in my machine, but only when dropping to the terminal. I cannot do that by regular means in ...
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I can not log in, I'm in loop
I read many solutions but none worked for me.
I need some help, I have the xsession-errors registry
Already a week ago to install something, fglrx always worked well and everything worked normal but ...
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How to set gnome-session-flashback as default in 16.04? [duplicate]
I customized my system by installing Ubuntu 16.04 and replacing Unity with gnome-session-flashback.
How can I switch Unity desktop to GNOME desktop without selecting the session at the login screen?
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Gear icon missing from login screen
I'm looking at the login prompt on an Ubuntu 16.04 laptop. I should be seeing - so I've been told - a gear icon in the corner of the highlighted rectangle around the username, which would allow me to ...
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Unable to use other Desktop Environments through login in 16.04
I had Cinnamon installed and after system reboot, tried to choose Cinnamon ( currently on Unity ) through the login menu. Unfortunately, when I click the icon, the whole page text disappears and the ...
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Unity Login Screen Replaced After GNOME Install
I installed the GNOME desktop environment through the Ubuntu Software Center on Ubuntu 14.04. It installed correctly, but the default login screen got changed to the GNOME login screen. Unity by ...
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startup popup error: error found when loading /etc/profile
I run Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with default Unity window manager and I started getting this popup error right after I login (only when starting up the computer after shutdown; I do not get the error if I ...
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Ubuntu Unity login screen from KUbuntu
Is possible to use classic Ubuntu (Unity) with login screen from KUbuntu (KDE)?
Because login screen in KDE is very beautiful.
I mean this: http://static.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/...
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Logout doesn't work
When I click the logout button all the programs close, panels disappear etc. as expected but it doesn't go to the login screen, it's just stuck looking at wallpaper and mouse cursor. I've found a "...
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