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how can i install the mate login screen on ubuntu 20.04?
I just installed mate's desktop on ubuntu focal fossa 20.04. I already have ubuntu unity downloaded on my pc. so the login screen is unity's login screen. how do I change it to mate's login screen via ...
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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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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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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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My changes to com.canonical.unity-greeter file won't take effect
I've installed lightdm and messed around with my login screen settings, but now that I want to use the standard 16.04 login screen(minus the dot-grid) the changes won't take effect.
unity-greeter ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 login loop, unity-panel-service-lockscreen fails
After installing several updates and restarting Ubuntu 16.04, I was greeted with a strange looking login screen. When I try to login the same screen temporarily disappears and then reappears.
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Cannot login into my session after trying to resolve no launcher no manu bar problem
I had run following commands from terminal as the unity launcher and manu bar were missing, as given in Ubuntu 16.04 Unity No desktop just background wallpaper.
Commands:
sudo rm -fr ~/.cache/...
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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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Ubuntu gets stuck loading account
Ubnutu gets stuck while loading my account. You can see the wallpaper and move the mouse. In the corner you can see ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I am able to start a tty shell with Ctrl+Alt+F1. I think it might ...
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How to change the color of the 'Incorrect Password' text
I want to be able to change the 'Incorrect Password' text to a different color in the lightdm login screen, but I can't figure out how. I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Unity 7.4, and I have the following ...
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No login screen after uninstalling lightdm
I did
sudo apt-get remove lightdm
After logging out I no longer get the login screen. Just a blank screen with a blinking cursor top left. Rebooting results in the same.
I'd like to restore to the ...
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Wrong login dialog after meddling with xrdp and various desktops
After I've been meddling with xrdp for quite a while, trying mint, xfce4 and xubuntu as xrdp desktop environment, I have my login dialog changed to this. I can neither tell which desktop environment ...
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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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Problem with Login-Screen with dual monitor mode since Ubuntu Unity/Gnome 16.04.02
I'm working with an Lenovo T400 with onboard intel graphics combined with a Mini Dock for the last years. I use one DVI-Monitor and one VGA-Monitor/Display. Everything worked well until the ubdate ...
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Why Does My GUI Login Require Me to Move the Mouse to Get to the Password Textbox?
When I boot my Ubuntu Xenial Desktop system, it boots normally and displays the mouse pointer, list of logins, and a textbox for the login password, but then, at the very end, it brings up an Ubuntu ...
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Stuck at Kubuntu splash screen after adding Kde to Ubuntu
Hello I seem to be stuck on the kubuntu splash screen after I installed both Kubuntu-Desktop and Gnome-shell on my Ubuntu 16.10 install.
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lightdm login screen almost unusable with NVidia drivers
I cannot use lightdm to login, while using NVIDIA drivers. I just see a tiny area at the left corner with the icons, and the password text field. Though I can login, I can't choose my session or login....
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Can sign in to xfce but not to Ubuntu Desktop environment after update
I recently updated my Ubuntu 14.04 installation and upon rebooting I am no longer able to sign into the Ubuntu Desktop environment. I've tried several approaches such as:
renaming .Xauthority and ...
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How do I restore the default Ubuntu Unity 16.04 login screen? [duplicate]
Background:
I wanted to change the wallpaper background of my Ubuntu Unity 16.04 login screen. I installed lightdm-gtk-gtreeter-settings and only changed the wallpaper as shown below.
However, now ...
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Login background changed, but lock screen persists [closed]
I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 and I was able to change the login screen background with the Ubuntu Tweak tool, but for some reason, the lock screen does not change. I already checked in dconf-editor, the ...
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After messing with DEs, DMs, panel, icon size and greeter are messed up. How can I fix this?
So I was messing with installing Gnome and KDE desktop environments, and ended up deciding not to. When I was finished, I logged out. Upon opening my laptop again, there were several problems.
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Unable to login to Gnome (-> login loop), only Unity login possible
I have a problem basically exactly the same as this one.
What did I do? I wanted to try out GNOME and installed it according to this guide:
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
sudo apt-get install ...
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ubuntu lockscreen issue
When I do Super + L in Ubuntu it locks the screen and original lock screen with white dots appears. Then after 30 seconds the screen goes black and when wake it up again lightdm greeter is shown ...
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Change top bar and font scaling on login screen 16.04
How can I apply font scaling (or just change font size) and top bar scaling at the login screen? I've customized my settings so the to bar is thinner and text is smaller and I don't like that the ...
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Login cause loop with error
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 with Oracle VM on a laptop : GS60 6QE.
Use to have graphic problem with Ubuntu, but at least I can work.
Suddenly I can't login normally.
I'm on it for hours now ... If ...
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After login Desktop not showing 16.04
I am using Ubuntu 16.04 and I have installed Kali linux tools on top of that using Katoolin, after restarting I can enter the password but desktop showing blank no icons. I used below command but it ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 login loop Unity terminated with status 1
I have ubuntu 14.04 and am stuck in a login loop problem despite trying the common answers to the multitude of questions on the site ,none have worked. I can't figure out what's wrong and would be ...
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15.10 Unity stuck after login, even as guest, background image permission denied despite 644
Yesterday I ran the last Ubuntu security updates, and now my desktop does not open anymore. Only the purple login wallpaper is visible (my user wallpaper is different and does not appear) and I can ...
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how to make unity available on login-screen
I've installed unity over kubuntu 15.10 and I can see it on the login screen.
how could I do to make it available?
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How to change lock screen?
I installed KDE in ubuntu 15.10, but the login screen is the one that comes with Unity. Is there any way to use KDE login screen instead?
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/etc/lightdm/unity-greeter.conf file and /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf missing
In my Ubuntu 14.04 /etc/lightdm/unity-greeter.conf and /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf files are missing. Only /etc/lightdm/users.conf file is there in /etc/lightdm/ directory.
And login screen is not ...
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Ubuntu 15.10 randomly crashing back to login screen
fresh install of Ubuntu 15.10 here.
Everything works fine, but I'm getting random crashes back to the login screen.
I pasted my syslog here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/12989589/
Edit: Confirmed bug on ...
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Stuck at login screen in Ubuntu 14.04 [duplicate]
When I've start my system, Ubuntu 14.04, my login screen got stuck, with mouse cursor in middle of the screen. However, sometimes system allow me to enter my credential but the results are same and ...
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Changing default resolution system-wide in Ubuntu 15.10
Ubuntu 15.10 uses the native resolution of the screen by default. The native resolution on my laptop (3200*1800) is too big for the size of the screen (13"), leading to a very high pixel density, it ...
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Now that `/usr/share/backgrounds/warty-final-ubuntu.png` has changed, where is the solid purple background screen file stored?
Now that /usr/share/backgrounds/warty-final-ubuntu.png has changed, where is the solid purple background screen file stored?
/usr/share/backgrounds/warty-final-ubuntu.png is the default background, ...
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Webkit-greeter only changes after a restart, not when logging out or locking computer
On Ubuntu 14.04, I installed the lightdm-webkit-greeter using sudo apt-get install lightdm-webkit-greeter
then, I did the following to get the greeter I wanted:
cd /usr/share/lightdm-webkit/themes/
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Cannot login from lock screen
On a new 14.04 setup I am having an issue where I cannot login from the lock screen. When my screen locks, the only way I can login is by selecting to login as a different user, which takes me back ...
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Can't get rid of Lubuntu's Login Greeter
If I lock my computer or logout, when I log back in, I want to see unity-greeter. But I can't seem to get rid of Lubuntu's greeter upon logging in.
I once installed Lubuntu but have since uninstalled ...
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System Logs out when unused for some time instead of going into lock screen
I have switched to XFCE4 some days back from Unity, but now i again switched to Unity. From that time onwards I am facing following problem.
My system logs out automatically when unused for some time,...
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change login screen without sudo
I'd like to understand whether a user, without root permissions, can change login screen background, in the same fashion as one can change desktop background or icon size in unity, in particular ...
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I deleted my home folder, now I can't log in through Unity
I deleted my home folder when followed the steps in:
ecryptfs-setup-private --undo
I'm not worried about the data or anything, but I can't log in through Unity anymore.
I switched to root in the ...
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How do I reboot login screen?
After locking Ubuntu 14.04 and invoking login screen sometimes I get the page with disabled password field. How can I restart login screen in command line without restarting whole X server?
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Changes in /etc/lightdm.conf.d/*conf or /etc/lightdm.conf makes any difference
I am trying to make my lightdm use a correct setup of my displays both for login and session.
I have most likely misunderstood something here, but by reading the wiki I did the following:
I have ...
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Unity Greeter starts with a black output Screen
The unity greeter in my Ubuntu 14.04 laptop starts with a black output screen. When I say this I mean every error and output of the greeter is printed on the screen but the GUI is not visible.
What I ...
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How to edit the text that appears on the Unity login screen?
I was previously using Ubuntu 13.04 and had done PostgreSQL Advanced Server installation which edited my Unity login screen to include its title. I've since uninstalled that proprietary version of ...
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Upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04, re-activation of 3rd party sources, login doesn't show up
I've just upgraded from 12.04 to 14.04. It went all fine, also the restart. Then, I re-activated some third party packages sources, and I did some updates. Afterwards, ubuntu doesn't start. The screen ...
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What file specifies the desktop environment for a user?
I'm having problems with Unity on a slow laptop, but it's configured to autologin so I never see the login screen. Also, the screen or display driver is messed up so I don't see the far right part of ...
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swich from ubuntu (unity) lockscreen/login to gnome [duplicate]
I have Ubuntu GNOME installed on my pc and I also installed the unity shell, the problem is I seem to have lost the GNOME login screen and lock screen, is it possible to switch back from the new unity ...
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No Unity greeter after installing Xubuntu desktop [duplicate]
I installed xubuntu-desktop metapackapge on my system and after this action unity-greeter no longer appears. I've purged lightdm twice, then reinstalled lightdm and unity-greeter. But still no result. ...
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How to show old account on the greeter
TL;DR --> I want to know how to make an old account show up after reinstallation of Ubuntu so that I can log in to that account and not have to reinstall all the other software I had installed on that ...
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