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Xubuntu 22.04.4 Slow desktop start after login (2-15 minutes)
I have problem and I need help with my Dell Inspiron 3525.
The PC starts up correctly until the login screen. After entering my username and password and accessing it, I can see the wallpaper and the ...
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Consistent Appearance Between Lock Screen and Log Out Screen in Xubuntu 22.04?
I installed Xubuntu 22.04 and applied a Gruvbox theme I downloaded from the internet.
Now, from the application menu, when I press "Lock Screen," a login screen comes up that matches my ...
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22.04 fresh install won't recognise existing home folder - login loop
can anyone help with this please?
I upgraded xubuntu 18.04 LTS to 22.04 LTS. Laptop is elderly but trusty Lenovo T400. I have an encrypted home folder which I kept on a separate partition (mount point ...
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Upgrade to Xubuntu 23.04, can't login, popup loop, tty login info doesn't work
Trying to login after upgrading to 23.04 via the GUI prompt. It warns of the dangers of not disabling your lock screen, but I was sure I didn't have a lock screen enabled.
The login prompt pops up, ...
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Xubuntu freeze on lightdm login after upgrade to 22.04/22.10
I think it's the first time, that I ask a question here, since I found an answer for all previous issues.
I upgraded my xubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 (and then on commandline to 22.10, because I hoped, the ...
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Enabling fingerprint login in Xubuntu
I have looked around and found that Ubuntu supports fingerprint reading, but I can't find any information for Xubuntu. I have tried to find the equivalent of Settings → Users → Authentication & ...
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Unable to login - need to boot into single user and recover password?
A week ago I installed Xubuntu (20.04?) on a Dell Latitude e6530 that had Windows 10 "ready to install" (I never agreed to MS terms, so didn't activate). I was the only user and had root ...
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My Xubuntu 20.04 LTS is stuck in a login loop, can't login through shell doesn't work
My Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is stuck in a login loop whenever I enter my password it the screen goes black, it flashes me an error, and then takes me back to the login. when I open the shell with Ctrl + Alt + ...
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How to remove the Xubuntu Login screen in Ubuntu 18.04 (and NOT 14.04)
Apart from Gnome I had / have Unity desktop in my Ubuntu 18.04. Later I installed Xubuntu over it. Change the desktop background with windows wallpaper. The same wallpaper was automatically taken by ...
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Xubuntu freezes when trying to launch discord
I'm running the latest LTS of Xubuntu on my machine with 4 GB of RAM.
Whenever I try to launch Discord, which I installed through the Snap Store, it freezes and either forces me to reboot or loops ...
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Slick-greeter wont stay persistent in Xubuntu
I'm running Xubuntu 20.04 and I've installed slick-greeter, I've also run sudo apt-get autoremove lightdm-gtk-greeter and yet when my computer wakes up from a sleep it still goes back to the lightdm-...
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Xubuntu Live USB suddenly asking for username and log in password but I did not set any
[Xubuntu 18.04 LTS live USB | Persistent | Created using UNetbootin]
Things I've tried:
Blank username and password
Username: ubuntu Password: blank
Username: xubuntu Password: blank
Username: ...
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After upgrade to Xubuntu 20.04.1 white screen after login
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I updated my Xubuntu 18.04 to 20.04.1LTS, and stuck with issue. After i enter password for my user and press enter, i see white screen and cursor. If i press Alt+F4 (there should be a ...
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Login problem in 20.04 : can't type anything in the login box
Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS / XFCE / Dell Latitude 3460 recently upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04.
(1) After suspend first wakes up to an Unlock screen with a simplified log-in window (with just one Unlock button ...
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Can't log back in to only my account after switching to another user in lightdm on xubuntu
My family has a shared computer were we all have accounts. This is an Xubuntu 20.04 system running lightdm as the user manager. For whatever reason, whenever I login to my account, then lock the ...
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Stuck on the login screen in Xubuntu 18.04
I installed Xubuntu DE on my machine and when I rebooted, my ubuntu got stuck on the login screen. Even the command to bring up the terminal CTRL + ALT + F2 is not working and every time I enter the ...
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Xubuntu 20.04: cannot login into my account!
Good day! During my session something went wrong. My wifi connection suddenly switched off so I restarted my notebook. After which I cannot login into my account on Xubuntu 20.04. The system now ...
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Xubuntu 19.10 with ZSH hangs after login in tty
I have oh-my-zsh installed on my Xubuntu 19.10. Sometimes, as (X)ubuntu usually does, it freezes together with the whole X server.
Therefore I wanted to switch to tty1. Once I provided my credentials, ...
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Why is fingerprint authentication so complicated / slow?
Booting the system takes:
Swiping my finger on the (lighted up) fingerprint reader. → LED on the fingerprint reader goes out.
Select my user.
Swiping my finger on the (lighted up again) fingerprint ...
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Why should I use SSH keys instead of passwords?
I'm trying to understand why I should use SSH keys instead of passwords.
I currently have an account with a different random 25 char password for each server. I use 'sudo' to elevate privileges when ...
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Cannot Login to Xubuntu 18.04 though password is correct
Everytime I type my password in to the login screen CORRECTLY the screen will say "started bp filter" and then go back to the login screen. Help!
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Cannot log into Xubuntu
I took my wife's computer today to do a fresh install of 18.04 LTS. (Her machine has 16.04.) First thing I did was get her to set a new password (of my choosing) so that I didn't have to keep running ...
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Xubuntu login session corrupted?
After one of the innumerable recent updates (in particular to xfce4) I logged out and back in again to find that for one thing the mouse pointer has become invisible and some of the configuration has ...
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Stuck in login loop on ubuntu, works on xubuntu
I was stuck in a login loop on ubuntu 18.04 and tried a lot of the answers from other questions to no avail. Like here and here regarding .xauthority, cleaning disk space etc.
Eventually I installed ...
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How to configure login screen in Xubuntu 18.04 - Slick Greeter
I have installed Xubuntu 18.04.
The login screen shows lightdm gtk greeter like login.
I didn't like this type of view so I installed slick greeter through terminal and removed gtk greeter through ...
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No GUI after Login, GUI works if I drop into TTY terminal then back to lightDM
Just installed Xubuntu 18.04 on my HP Pavilion 15 in a dual boot configuration with windows. I was running Gnomebuntu 16.04 previously, but I am now unable to either install any distro or get the ...
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Login interface completely changed in Xubuntu 18.04 [duplicate]
My hard drive got full yesterday and some weird things started to happen, like uGet not working anymore and the trash can not emptying. I switched to another OS and cleaned some stuff in the Xubuntu's ...
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How to remove XFCE login wallpaper
I made the terrible mistake of installing xubuntu-desktop. Following this answer I was able to purge almost all XFCE related components. However, the bright blue mouse-themed wallpaper is still shown ...
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Greeter appears to work, but restarts immediately after user/pw entry on fresh installation of Xubuntu 18.04
Lightdm refuses to allow me to login on a new Xubuntu 18.04 installation. After I enter my user name and passwd, instead of logging in, the screen blanks and the greeter re-appears. I'm baffled by ...
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GUI goes blank after login screen Xubuntu 18.04 on dual-boot installation on Windows 10 machine
I just did a fresh install of Xubuntu 18.04 on my new ASUS laptop with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card, alongside my Windows 10 partition. I shrunk the factory C: partition by 200gb, deactivated ...
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xubuntu 18.04 login screen to all displays
By accident or not, on my PC at work, xubuntu login screen showed on both displays. Every ware else it shows only on single display and I can make it jump to a second display by dragging the mouse.
To ...
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Can't load Xfce due to login loop, other DEs work
I'm a newbie on Ubuntu. I wanted to install XFCE to create a very personal DE.
The problem is I've got a login loop. Since I upgraded my distro to 17.10 to support my wifi, I can't load XFCE.
But I ...
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Login loop in Xubuntu 17.10 after upgrade from Xubuntu 16.04 LTS
I have recently upgraded from Xubuntu 16.04 LTS to Xubuntu 17.10 (Yeah, I know it wasn't a good idea, but i did for testing purposes).
So now I have login loop problem. I have already googled for ...
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Xorg crashes everytime after unlocking desktop on Xubuntu 17.10
I have recently reinstalled my Lenovo Thinkpad T440p with Xubuntu 17.10. Whenever I leave my desk, I lock the screen by pressing Ctrl + Alt + Del. When I return (no matter if it's after a few minutes ...
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Moved /home to separate partition, installed 64-bit Xubuntu, can't log in but everything looks fine
So after trying to install Steam on my old installation of Ubuntu, I realised that I had been using 32-bit Lubuntu on my 64-bit machine. So I decided to move my /home directory to a separate partition ...
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What's the right place to set the XAUTHORITY environment variable?
I'm trying to get rid of the .Xauthority file in my home directory.
The arch wiki suggests defining
export XAUTHORITY="$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"/Xauthority
but neither placing this line in .profile nor ...
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Ubuntu Login loop, can't login either in console
I just made a Xubuntu 64-bit system using VirtualBox and I can only log in with guest, when I try to login with my account it just stays in the login screen.
I've seen a similar question (Ubuntu gets ...
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Cannot get to the login screen, but a yellow colored terminal
I installed xubuntu yesterday, and it now cannot reach to the login screen. It shows a yellow colored terminal. I don't really know what the problem is this, and rebooting does not work. It keeps ...
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Why doesn't "Save session for future logins" save open terminals?
I am using Ubuntu 16.04.2 with Xubuntu Desktop. Upon shutdown, the GUI provides the option "Save session for future logins", a feature I like a lot. However it fails to restore any programs I started ...
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What is the password of a live user?
I installed Xubuntu on a pen drive to use as live (with persistence) and I cannot put a password.
It asks to enter the "current password", but I never changed any kind of password.
I've tried to ...
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Ubuntu 16.10 automatically logs out after loading desktop, dock, background picture
I've tried removing .Xauthority, force-updating libssl, reinstalling Ubuntu completely, "sudo dpkg --configure -a", and a few other ideas people offered. I can access Guest or another account I ...
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Disable touchscreen before login (in the greeter)
Recently I broke the screen of my Asus x200e and the tactile does random thing. I manually disable the touchscreen with
xinput disable ID
I need to do that everytime I restart. It's not a big ...
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Xubuntu guest session crashing [closed]
We have three computers at our facility for our guests to use. All of them are installed with Xubuntu 14.04.
One has issue with the guest session. Immediately after login it crashes and returns back ...
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How to restore xfce4 after "accidentally" running "sudo startxfce4"?
Today I was fiddling around with the video settings to get rid of the tearing, and at some point I wanted to restart xfce without restarting the machine.
So I ran "sudo startxfce4" and I saw something ...
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Computer seems to hang after successful login via lightdm
I sucessfully installed Xubuntu 16.04.1 on my computer. When switched on, it shows the login screen of lightdm and I can enter my credentials.
However, after any window has vanished and only the ...
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How can I add a panel to the Numix Lightdm login theme?
I was wondering if anyone knows how I could add a top panel to the Numix lightdm login theme? In the original theme there's no panel and it's really hard to see the time and date as well as the ...
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Nvidia 361.42 and LightDM problem on xubuntu
I am using xubuntu 16.04 with intel and nvidia GPUs. When using intel there are no problems, when doing prime-select nvidia and logging out lightdm will not start with the error message (see below). ...
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Why i can't login in Xubuntu 16.04? [duplicate]
I have used Xubuntu 16.04 fine for months. Today i updated some snapd package, then i restarted the system as required. And now it just won't let me log in. It replies invalid password. I tried to ...
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Xubuntu 16.04 Live USB won't let me past login...flashes and resets
I found posts saying log in name is 'xubuntu' and password is empty. This just flashes screen and resets fields. Other names or default sounding passwords result in an "incorrect password" message, ...
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Why does Xfce sometimes not properly load the theme (Appearance) on login?
Sometimes when I log in, Xfce (4.10, on Xubuntu-14.04) doesn't look right at all – the colour theme is an odd mixture of the correct settings (Xfce-darkness, in my case) and what's presumably ...
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