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Ubuntu 18.04 password
I am running long running matlab code on Ubuntu 18.04.
Can I do something that requires a password so that there is no user login while the analyzes are being made on the computer ?
So when I'm not at ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS slow boot and problems after update
I have ubuntu 18.04 LTS installed in my machine. Since the last update (kernel 4.15.0-176-generic) the machine is very slow to boot (login) and there are problems after the login (slow and laggy).
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After boot go automatically to graphical login screen
I installed Ubuntu 18.04.6 desktop and then lubuntu-desktop.
Now the system boots to non-graphical login screen. The user of the laptop
will have to press ctrl+alt+F7 to go to graphical login screen.
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How do I fix the Ubuntu Login Loop Problem [duplicate]
I am using ubuntu 18.04 as a dual boot with my windows and the storage got full, which caused a login loop problem. I try to login into the system with the correct password but the screen flashes to ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 gdm3 login loop
I am currently using gdm3 destop manager while I login it gets stuck in login loop.
I have followed almost all the procedures suggested in this post
Permissions of Xauthority and /tmp were fine.
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ubuntu LiveCd enable user login
I am customizing Ubuntu 18.04 and want to boot from a USB drive. As the LiveCD does automatically log in, I Want to enable user login while booting. Can someone pls help me to enable user login for ...
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Change background for login screen for 18.04
I want to change the background for my login screen for 18.04.
I tried to change my login screen background via modifying /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/ubuntu.css
but that file does not exist.
I found ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 tab flashing screen after upgrading from 18.04
I am having Lenovo G40-80 laptop with configuration of i3-5th gen processor
I recently upgraded to ubuntu 20.04 LTS from ubuntu 18.04. After doing all the necessary steps and restarting the system, ...
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Cannot log on as other user with Bionic and (vanilla) GNOME without first logging off
NB: This is not the same issue as in this question (Unable to switch users at lock screen. Unity, Ubuntu 18.04)! In my case lightdm isn't even installed and so reinstalling it is not an option.
I am ...
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Touchpad not working in login screen
I have an Asus x507 laptop. I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 everything working fine; but, the touchpad is not working on the login screen. I have changed default Ubuntu dwm to Cinnamon's login screen that I'm ...
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Log in Loop in Ubuntu 18.04, after I changed something in my $PATH, but startx works
As per the title, I stuck in a log in loop, I tried everything from Xauthority, installing lightdm and purging the Nvidia, but none of them works.
I messed up after I tried to install Flutter ...
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Automatic Login "ON" but login screen persists on startup Linux Ubuntu 18.04
I am trying to enable automatic log-in on a linux PC that starts a QT application on startup. There is only one user account on the machine, and I have Automatic Login "ON" in the user settings. ...
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Stuck at login screen on fresh install
So I have just installed Ubuntu 18.04 on an unformatted SSD using a USB boot media I flashed from macOS.
I used the minimal install, and selected install 3rd party drivers from the options, as well ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 VirtualBox black screen after login
I've been running Ubuntu 18.04 on VirtualBox for 5 months now, with no problems.
Today, I've encountered a quite annoying problem, to be honest. After I log in, the screen goes black with no ...
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Ubuntu login broken
I have recently downloaded ubuntu dual boot with windows 10 on my laptop. It was working fine until I shutdown my laptop and restarted it.
I got an old ubuntu login page picture and even if a login I ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 lightdm does not work properly
I do not like gdm on Ubuntu 18.04 so I have replaced it with good old lightdm and unity-greeter with the following command:
sudo apt install lightdm unity-greeter
I've also selected lightdm in ...
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Screen blinking while unlocking the system Dell Vostro 3568
I have a Dell Vostro 15 3568 with Ubuntu 18.04.3 which starts blinking after
the system gets locked and I want to unlock it again.
I just completed the fresh installation.
Sometimes, the blinking ...
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Log in fails on ubuntu 18.04
I am using ubuntu 18.04 on hp-elitedesk.
Once in a while, when I log in, instead of going to the desktop screen, it comes back to the same log in screen.
I am very afraid of someday, it will get ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 login hangs
Installed a new ubuntu machine 18.04. Running it vmware work station, on win10 host on Dell XPS laptop. Had used the ubuntu-18.04.3-live-server-amd64 image.
I see this peculiar behavior - login prompt ...
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really slow login on ubuntu-18.04
just installed ubuntu 18.04 on my new computer. the OS is dual booted next to win10. the OS is installed on SSD, and so the boot takes about 10 second.
when I get to the login window, and after typing ...
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How to stop Ubuntu from changing numlock state on boot?
There is no problem in other OS. Default expected behavior for standart PC - is that you:
Set up NumLock initial status in the bios
It remains same in bootloader
It remains same at login screen
It ...
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Unable to login to ubuntu 18.04 (only via wayland)
I have a DELL inspiron 15-5567 and my graphics card is AMD radeon R7 M445 running Ubuntu 18;04.3. Suddenly after going to an apt-get upgrade my desktop is not logging the user account into xorg ...
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Bold User name text on login screen
In 18.04, during the first login, my user name appears in bold text. I need to click on it to enter the password. Is it possible to remove bold and make the user name appears as normal text ?
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Boot: Normal vs Recovery
After a recent update to Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS, my system hangs during boot (see my first question at 18.04.2 Hangs during boot after update).
This time I am asking for help to learn about what would be ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 login page freezes, not entering tty
Cannot log into Ubuntu. Recently removed python3, regretting it, restarted a computer and cannot enter the system. Not reacting to inputs at all, cannot switch to tty as well.
Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
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Keyboard and mouse are extremely slow / lagging in Ubuntu 18.04's login screen
I have just installed Ubuntu 18.04 in a computer that has an ASRock EP2C602-4L/D16 motherboard with two Intel Xeon E5-2660v2 CPUs and 128 Gb of DDR3 RAM. Ubuntu is installed in a 1Tb SSD.
Everything ...
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Use login screen as lock / unlock screen
I've seen this question and I am asking myself if its possible to use my login screen as lock / unlock screen as I prefer the login screen visually. I use Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
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Stuck in the "Log in as another user" screen loop
All of my Ubuntu 18.04 LTS installations eventually gets stuck in a loop where the screen shows the last user who logged in and is prompting for a password.
It has the following options:
Cancel, ...
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Ubuntu 18 login loop + startx works
So recently I got stuck in a login loop on Ubuntu 18. I tried some solutions posted here but none of them works for me so far. Here's what I tried by accessing terminal from login screen:
Checking ...
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Cannot login anymore to XFCE
I cannot login anymore to my XFCE desktop environment, since today.
From the login screen (GDM3, LightDM and SDDM behave the same), I login to my account choosing XFCE, the screen turns black, and it ...
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Sometimes when I lock the screen and try to resume my work the password screen acts like something is repeatedly trying to log
Sometimes when I lock the screen and try to resume my work the password screen acts like something is repeatedly trying to log.
The end result is that I can't type anything and the error message when ...
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How to prevent someone from logging in into Ubuntu without knowing the password?
I just had my browser tabs changed when I just logged in today, it was Incognito so I can't tell if I can go back to it, but I'm very confused as to how can someone logged in to my computer without ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 unity login loop
Description of the issue:
I'm stuck in a login loop with Ubuntu 18.04 64 bit (4.15.0-46-generic x86_64 GNU/Linux) when I try to login with "Unity (default)" (installed after: https://linuxconfig.org/...
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Changing the Colour of GNOME (GDM) Login Box on Ubuntu 18.04
I changed the background to an image on my login screen. No problem. However, I want to change the user selection box from orange to something complimentary.
How do I do this?
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Lock Screen shows weird old dialog box [duplicate]
My lock screen looks like this.
And when I log in, my computer doesn't get lock.
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From Suspend directly to desktop? [duplicate]
I am using Ubuntu 18.04. I have disabled the lock screen but enabled suspend mode after 10 minutes.
Each time my PC goes into suspend mode, the first thing that I see when I move the mouse is a ...
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What are the issues that make Ubuntu 18.04 gets stuck in a login loop?
Yesterday,I was configuring Java Path for installing Netbeans Apache,then I went to sleep.Today,when I'm trying to login with correct username and password ,the screen gets stuck to display login ...
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18.04 Switch users stops working after a while
After a reboot, I am generally able to switch users, and this works for a while. However, after some time the switch user option returns me to the password dialogue for the current user, and clicking ...
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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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Cancel button and settings option not working on the login screen of ubuntu 18.04
Nothing is happening on clicking cancel button and settings option on the login screen of ubuntu 18.04
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Kubuntu login screen does not show network
I have Kubuntu 18.04 but the login screen does not show the network. i.e the WiFi connection. Already, I have a wifi connection available to all users and it connect automatically and I ask for any ...
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Apply theme on login screen
I've installed the popular arc-theme (with gnome-tweaks) and it looks awesome in the darker variant. However it does not load until I log in. I would like to have it applied to the login screen as ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 Login window loop
Is there any reason the login window would stop working and start looping? I'm running 18.04. I normally RDP into the ubuntu box, but that isn't working now. Using a keyboard and mouse, I see my ...
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Ubuntu Budgie: Can't use FN keys on login screen
I can't use FN keys on the login screen in Ubuntu Budgie 18.04.
This means I can't change the brightness or volume.
How can I fix this?
edit:I can use FN after login screen.
my device is asus ...
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18.04 login fails after screen lock
After doing an update today, I can no longer login after a screen lock. I enter my password, the screen goes black and then returns to the login screen. The only way to login again is to reboot.
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cloud-init smg in login screen
I am getting this SMG from cloud-init; with a clean installation of Ubuntu 18.04.1
Capture
how Can I Fix this?
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My Login Screen is different Help! [duplicate]
I just installed Ubuntu 18.04 this day. Everything is fine until my screen froze and did not come back. So I restarted my computer and when it booted, my Login screen was different. Sadly I couldn't ...
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Ubuntu Bionic - No Keyboard-Layout-Selector at Login-Screen
I have two computers running Ubuntu Bionic.
On one of them there is no language- /keyboard-layout-selector at the login screen.
What can I do to get it?
Is there any configuration file for the login-...
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I can login using su in other accounts, but not using login screen
When I try to login to my administrative account using Ubuntu's login screen, I cannot. However, I can access other accounts and log in to them. Additionally, I can login to my account using su ...
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Unable to Login even after trying correct password
I thought of creating another standard user account but just after I clicked add user it took me to my login screen. After entering my root password it says that it's incorrect. Even in tty4 it does ...
