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Is it possible to have my desktop loaded before login?

I am connecting to the system with Putty (this is Windows SSH client) then running some service in interactive personal mode. For example this is a script to run freeswitch: dims@nebulla:~$ cat ...
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Can I move the password field to the center of the login screen?

I am using Ubuntu 11.10 ( I reverted back from 12.04 to 11.10 because of stability issues). I would like to know is it possible to change the location of the password field in the login screen ?
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Logging in over and over again. How to fix this? [closed]

Ok, I messed up. I installed ubuntu 11.10, installed awesome wm and removed unity, to have something to fall back on, I also installed gnome-session-fallback. I was messing around and did the ...
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How to take a screenshot of login screen? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I take a screenshot of the login screen? I want to make a screenshot of my Login Screen on Ubuntu 11.10. So far, no method I read here has worked out for me. So I'm ...
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Is LightDM is broken? Autologin works

I recently upgraded my Mythbuntu box to 11.10. LightDM worked for a while and then I configured autologin on my user account. After some time, I've removed some packages to lean down the system. Now ...
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4 votes
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Login screen is rotated [closed]

When I turn on the computer, the login screen is rotated. But when I log in to my account, the screen is normal. I have an ATI graphics card on an AMD laptop. The settings is normal for two user ...
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How To Change Login Screen Background On 11.10 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I change the wallpaper in LightDM? How do i change the background of the login screen on 11.10 i have tried Simple-lightDM-Manager and now all i get is a black screen ...
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1 answer
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Do not have the Unity 3D option at login

I am not receiving the Unity 3D option when logging into Ubuntu 11.10. The only options I have are GNOME, GNOME Classic, GNOME Classic (No effects), Ubuntu, and Ubuntu 2D. I ran the test /usr/lib/...
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10 votes
5 answers
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How can I disable passwordless login?

I set my account to be allowed to log in without a password. I only wanted this temporarily, but I can't seem to change it back to how it was before. How can I make it so that my password is ...
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2 votes
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How to change log in screen resolution to 1024*768 in Lubuntu 11.10? [closed]

I am new to Lubuntu or any ubuntu OS. Please in detail answer will be appreciated.
Dilawar Ramzan's user avatar
5 votes
1 answer
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How to go to login screen with terminal

I want to make a simple script to go to the login screen and sleep the display on 11.10, as I find the login screen much prettier than the 'lock screen' prompt. However, I cannot find a single ...
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How to make the login screen be in portrait mode?

Since I upgraded from 11.04 to 11.10, my login screen reverted back to landscape mode, and only goes to portrait mode (what I want) once I login. How to make the login screen be in portrait mode?
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Gnome 3 Shell Login, how do I get it? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to get Gnome 3.2 login theme installed? I installed Gnome Shell 3.2 and everything is fine other than the fact that I don't get the newly introduced Gnome Shell login ...
tupperware's user avatar
1 vote
2 answers
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LXDE on a virtual machine refuses to log me in, what can I do?

The system boots and shows login screen as usual, but after I type the password and hit Enter it throws login screen again. it's a VM, so I don't even have GRUB to login without GUI. Anything I can ...
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2 votes
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Getting to virtual terminal with Keytouch overriding Fn keys [closed]

I have a Chromebook running Ubuntu that I just broke. I had everything on the internal harddrive for the computer, but ran out of space, so I decided to move my home partition onto a memory card that ...
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Administrator user session only shows a terminal

Weird problem: After upgrading to 11.10 (and I am sure that I worked with it for couple of days). We had a power failure, and now, when open the computer, what I get is a screen, with a scrollable ...
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Why is there a delay for logging in (wubi)?

I use wubi to install Ubuntu under win7 in partition F which is fat32. When I choose Ubuntu at boot time, it jumps into a window. It shows two choices: ubuntu ubuntu recovery After choosing Ubuntu, ...
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11 votes
1 answer
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How can I enable a face browser in LightDM?

Is there a way to enable face display in the default LightDM greeter in Oneiric? If not, is there another alternative greeter that supports faces? (I know I can switch back to gdm if necessary, but ...
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3 votes
0 answers
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Must login twice before entering Unity; first login screen has graphical anomalies [closed]

When booting my computer I am first presented with the regular lightdm login screen except there are some graphical anomalies in the top 5th of the screen. When I press a key on the keyboard the ...
Mark Jones's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
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How can i remove the white dots in login screen on Ubuntu 11.10 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Removing the dots from the lightdm greeter I want to customize the login screen from Ubuntu 11.10 but i cant find the location of the white dots. I know how to change the ...
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Keyboard Layouts missing in lock screen, 11.10

I'm a frequent user of the USA Dvorak keyboard layout, but have the default QWERTY keyboard. Stuff works simply by adding the layout in the Keyboard settings in Ubuntu, and worked well in 11.04. ...
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6 votes
1 answer
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Resolution of the login screen is wrong on a second monitor

Is it possible to do changes to the login screen in Ubuntu 11.10? I'm running with a laptop and an external screen and in boot and login they're mirrored and has a weird resolution. To clarify: I'm ...
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After I put my computer on sleep, when I turn it back on, my screen freeze like this. Why? [closed]

I use ubuntu 11.10. My display freeze when I put my computer on sleep. So on wake-up, I'm forced to restart it. I tried with 2 differents screen and same result. Why? PS: I would upload a screen-...
Marc Couture's user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
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Can't login into Ubuntu

I started having this issue after having removed Kubuntu from my computer. At first login screen wouldn't even show, instead the screen stopped at Checking Battery state stage. At this point I still ...
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4 votes
2 answers
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No Unity 3d option on the login screen

I upgraded my ubuntu to 11.10 on day one but the unity 3d is not there as an option. I have User Defined, Recovery Mode and Ubuntu 2D. I've done this test /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p and all ...
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1 vote
1 answer
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Can't start a Unity session from an upgraded account but I can from a new one

After upgrading to 11.10 I can't seem to login into an X session in no matter what mode I try (Unity, Unity 2D, Recovery Console, Gnome, and Classic Gnone). I was able though to start a unity session ...
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1 vote
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How to change the default keyboard layout for the login screen? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I apply changes to the keyboard layout system-wide? Title pretty much says it all. I had it working in 11.04 but the new login screen in 11.10 doesn't seem to have ...
NetworkGuru's user avatar
23 votes
6 answers
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Cannot login to my user account

I upgraded my ubuntu from 11.04 to 11.10 via mounting the latest alternate CD image released on Oct. 13 as the final standard version and running the cdromupgrade prompt successfully, with full latest ...
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8 votes
2 answers
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How can I change the keyboard layout in the login screen? [duplicate]

I have different users on the machine who use different keyboard layouts. In 11.04, you could change the keyboard layout on the login screen (and it would remember it per user). How can I do this in ...
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12 votes
1 answer
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How to disable num lock warning

In the log in (and lock) screen of Ubuntu 11.10 I get annoying warnings that my Num Lock is on. As it is (on my Desktop) totally irrelevant or Num Lock is enabled or not, is there a way to disable ...
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7 votes
3 answers
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LightDM is running but does not display on login

LightDM is installed and running by default as a part of the Beta release. Yet, LightDM is not displayed at login time, rather a primitive, GDM like manager is the one we find at login time. I tried ...
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3 votes
1 answer
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How to remove the old gdm [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I make LightDM the default display manager? I have installed Ubuntu 11.10 beta and all of its changes are now working and let me testing them, but the only missing ...
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