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Not able to enter password for few seconds at login screen in Kubuntu 23.04
I am using Kubuntu 23.04 on HP Pavilion laptop.
Everything is working fine except one problem at login screen.
I am not able to type a password for the first few seconds(around 10 seconds). Nothing ...
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All users not visible after screen lock. Only logged in user is visible
When i lock screen from top right pull down menu. I am not able to login into other users as rest of users are not visible. When I press ctrl alt f1 while logged in I sent to black screen with a ...
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Steam app not launch on X11
I can play games from Steam only in Wayland. However, this displaying does not support screen recorders.
Is it any solution to launch Steam in X11 session ?
I tried edit on sudo nano /etc/gdm3/...
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SDDM freezes when trying to switch user after upgrade from focal to jammy
After kubuntu upgrade from focal to jammy when trying to switch user SDDM displays switch user screen but do not respond to keyboard or mouse, so it is impossible to switch. Before upgrade everything ...
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Black screen after logging in on "Ubuntu on xorg" in Ubuntu 22.04 lts
I am new to Ubuntu and have some hiccups using the latest one, whenever I change to Ubuntu xorg on logout screen from the gear option everything changes to black can't even navigate what I am doing ...
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Multiple monitors : Black screen with blinking cursor and GNOME Desktop login only shows after switching console
Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS HWE
Dell Laptop with integrated Intel GPU and Discrete nVidia GPU
Dual monitor ( Laptop monitor + Desktop monitor via HDMI from laptop )
Configured display to "Join Display&...
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Lightdm(with slick-greeter) only starts AFTER tty login
I recently installed slick-greeter, and have wrestled with various configuration issues, and spent quite some time searching various threads across various distros for the issue I'm seeing.
That is, ...
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Login Screen Issue: First lightdm needs to be killed to get X session to work
I'm running MATE 20.04 and have a problem each time I reboot. Instead of getting the lightdm login screen
When I have the grub option "silent" set I get a blank screen (it's all black but ...
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How can I configure monitor settings at boot?
When my system boots, before I log in, the X-server starts up and chooses a configuration for my displays.
It chooses incorrectly. What controls that configuration and how can I force it to be what I ...
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Black screen login loop when using GDM3
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Hello everyone! I am having a problem with my Ubuntu computer using GDM3. My machine gets to the GDM3 login screen just fine, but whenever I type in my password and hit the button to log in ...
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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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No config file found for LightDM
I am trying to change the greeter-session in LightDm, but I am unable to find any lightdm.conf in etc/ lightdm.
This is what's inside etc/lightdm -
The lightdm.conf.d folder is empty.
Also file ...
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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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I cannot log in to my account on Ubuntu desktop
I see the log-in screen but when I select one and enter the password it fails to log me in. It easily enters into guest account by the way.
I suspected there is some graphical problem and checked ...
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Stuck in login loop Ubuntu 16.04
I need some advice for working towards a resolution to my current login loop issue in Ubuntu Desktop 16.04. When I try to sign in locally, after I input the correct password, the gui prompts for the ...
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xubuntu 18.04 login loop
When I enter my password in the log in screen the screen goes black for a second or two, then returns me to the login screen. No matter how many times I try, I haven't been able to login. I never had ...
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18.04 Freeze after login
After upgrading from 17.10 to 18.04 my system freezes after login, sometimes but not every time..
The system boots until I see the login screen, but after entering the password, I'm greeted with a ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 Installing nvidia 390 driver whipped login gear and wayland
After having set nvdia 390 display driver in software&updates the gear icon at login is missing so I can no more choose between xorg and wayland.
Setting back to nouveau display driver doesn't ...
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Ubuntu 16.04.2 cannot login after installing xpra
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (desktop). When I install xpra from official repository, I notice that it removes ubuntu-desktop and many xorg packages. Then as long as I don't log out or reboot, ...
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Stuck in a login loop and I already tried lots of things
I am very new to Ubuntu. My Ubuntu 14.04 is stuck when trying to login my desktop. The screen goes black for a millisecond and soon after that the login screen comes back.
I tried most of the ...
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Black or purple screen instead of log in [duplicate]
Ubuntu 16.04 boots to a black screen.
I'm using nvidia gtx 580, and it was running smoothly before something happened.
When I open tty7:
/dev/sda1: clean, blahblah/blahblah files, blahblah/...
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I can't access the login screen in Lubuntu 16.04 LTS (2)
Sorry for repeat the same thread but nobody answer me and I need a fix as soon as posible because I can't stay updating PCs going first to 15.10 and later to the LTS. Please help me! Thanks in advance!...
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I can't access to the login screen in Lubuntu 16.04 LTS [duplicate]
I have a Toshiba NB300 with 1 GB RAM with Intel® Atom™ processor N450 and I recently installed Lubuntu 16.04 LTS i386 and I have this message on the screen instead of the login box
/dev/sda6: clean, ...
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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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Udev rules for USB mounting and Low Graphics Mode error
I have a file containing the content bellow
KERNEL!="sd[a-z][0-9]", GOTO="media_by_label_auto_mount_end"
# Import FS infos
IMPORT{program}="/sbin/blkid -o udev -p %N"
# Get a label if present, ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 login loop - Guest sessions does not work either
I have been using Ubuntu 14.04 soon after it is released. Today I messed something up with the Chinese input ibus, and I don't know if this is the reason at all, but when I reboot using sudo shutdown -...
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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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“The system is running in low-graphics mode” - internet not working in recovery
All the solutions to How to fix "The system is running in low-graphics mode" error? require for you to have internet.
I only have wireless internet and when I am in that console the ...
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LTS 12.04 update NVIDIA driver 319.32 reconfigured not able to get past login screen
I've encountered a similar problem as
Nvidia driver updated - mixed versions of 304.88 and 319.32
and
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Black Screen at boot After changing Nvidia Driver
Using what I found there, I ...
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Xubuntu 13.04 X Login Loop
All of a sudden, I am no longer able to login to an X session in my Xubuntu 13.04 install. The graphical login accepts my password, the screen goes blank and then returns to the login prompt. A bit of ...
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Cant log in to gui ,X is broken
Note to others if you just want a summary of the problem skip down to summary. This first part is going to be slightly long and hopefully entertaining. As in, that is screwed up! but there might be ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 login screen finite loop and keep end my session
The difference between this issue and other threads about: "login screen loop" is that in my case it's a finite loop which means it runs five times and then I can type my password and start my session....
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Unable to sign in. How to debug?
I had to reboot system with reset button. After reboot I can't sign in. When I enter my password It seems like X-server just restarts.
I can sign-in as guest and also I can sign-in in text TTY. Here ...
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Xubuntu slow login, unable to go back to login screen. How to debug?
Fresh Xubuntu install (enabling TwinView in Nvidia's propietary drivers) is suddenly taking too long to login after I enter my credentials in the login screen. When I log out (trying to go back to the ...
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How to fix "The system is running in low-graphics mode" error?
Note:
This is an attempt to create a canonical question that covers all
instances of "low-graphics mode" error that occurs to a user,
including but not limited to installation of wrong ...
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Cannot login via Unity login screen after upgrade to 12.04
Logging in via the shell accessed through Ctrl+Alt-F1 and logging in as guest via the graphical user interface work 0O
When I try to log into my standard user account via the graphical interface, the ...
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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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The terminal is shown when shutting down or logging out
When I shut down my system or log out the terminal (the one I reach with Ctrl Alt + F7) is sometimes shown before the login screen appears or before the computer is shut down. Is there a way to stop ...
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NVIDIA 173 drivers/nvidia-settings are never loaded on boot
It seems while the 173 driver is installed, my resolution settings are not loaded when I log in or reboot. I've tried opening nvidia-settings as superuser and user, changed the resolution, applied, ...
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