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Xubuntu 22.04 freezes on login screen

I'm running Xubuntu 22.04 on a Lenovo Thinkcentre M710s SFF (no Nvidia) that I bought used. There have been occasional problems with it turning on, but it has mostly worked. Today, the machine booted ...
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22.04 black login screen on Early 2008 iMac

for some days now I only get a black screen after booting. Detailed error description: During the boot, the display resolution seems to be messed up and everything is displayed in a distorted manner. ...
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Login screen not showing up after waking from suspend, desktop showing with no interaction (xubuntu)

[xfce version 4.16 on ubuntu 22.04] I have been having an issue with the login screen not showing up ever since I have installed xubuntu. After opening the laptop lid, the system wakes up from suspend ...
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Alt-F4 not shutting down pc anymore on Xubuntu 20.04.2.0

Since a few weeks Alt-F4 is not shutting down my pc anymore on Xubuntu 20.04.2.0. I get the login screen and from there I can shutdown the pc, but it asks if I am sure because there might be other ...
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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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Uninstalled gtk and ubuntu freezes in login

Summary: Unintentionally removed gtk from my xubuntu and now it is stuck at xubuntu loading screen. Details: I wanted to uninstall libjson-glib-1.0 but it uninstalled gtk as well which i didnt think ...
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Set keyboard layout at login splash screen

I have looked on many posts on all kind of forums and tried myself many things, for example: manipulate plymouth rc.d file, set as startup command setxkbmap de, create a boot time script in init.d, ......
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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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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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XUBUNTU 18.10- Blank screen after waking from suspend

Whenever i press any button to wake my system from suspend it screen get on with grey background and mouse poniter then w/o showing the login screen goes blank.. After that no matter what i do 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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How to get SDDM themes working on Xubuntu?

My problem is the following : I'm on Xubuntu, and I use SDDM on xfce. I need to use SDDM because there is a theme I want to use on it, I've installed it in the right folder, changed SDDM.conf, and ...
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some keys behave strange on login screen

I use XUbuntu. I updated recently. I have 105generic keyboard. When I try to log in, some keys don't work as expected: 7,8,9,u,i,o,.,- give nonsense like ^[[1~ 0 turns out to / P gives * These are ...
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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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Dual monitor setup not working on XFCE login screen

I've had this problem before where the dual monitor setup would not be kept (i.e. I had my right screen as the main screen, but after restarting, the position of my right screen would be shifted to ...
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How can I fix lightdm login black border?

There is a black border around my login screen every time I boot up. I have a second monitor connected and noticed that the background of the first monitor shrinks so that it matches the background of ...
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Xubuntu 14.04 Change Xfce Login and Lockscreen Button Color

I have Xubuntu 14.04, and I would like to change the login and lock screen button color from blue to green without changing the theme. However, I can't seem to find the proper configuration file to do ...
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Unable to login into any account

How it happened My computer was becoming very unresponsive and I could not close any applications to free memory so I held the power button until the computer turned off. When I turned it on ...
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How do you change keyboard layouts from the login screen in Xubuntu?

I've set up multiple user accounts in Xubuntu 14.04. I (the admin) am a dvorak user so I have English US dvorak as the default layout, but the other user is a qwerty user. I've added English US ...
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Is there a way to disable portrait/login picture display in the Xubuntu login?

I recently upgraded a machine from XUbuntu 12.10 and now the login screen has a blank silhouette that looks like the Facebook empty profile picture. How do I disable this and get back to just username ...
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Login goes nowhere after upgrade to 13.10

After upgrading to Xubuntu 13.10 I rebooted once and found that after login, regardless of account, I end up stuck after the login window disappears, with a movable pointer and the background from the ...
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External monitor won't show login screen

I'm using a laptop with external monitor (laptop screen disabled). I had a power failure in our house so laptop (without battery) closed, I had a lot of stuff opened and something broke because Ubuntu ...
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Node.js NVM causes Xubuntu login loop with ~/.profile line

There are various posts on the Xubuntu login loop, but none of them address NVM (Node Version Manager). I have installed NodeJS via NVM on my Xubuntu VM and it works fine, however after rebooting, 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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Changed my display manager to lightdm-gtk-greeter. Now I can't login

Last night I edited the default-display-manager file and changed my default display manager from lightdm to lightdm-gtk-greeter. Then I edited the lightdm-gtk-greeter config file and changed the ...
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why am i not getting my ubuntu 12.10 login screen back after uninstalling xubuntu 12.10?

I installed xubuntu, then uninstalled it completely, but I am not getting my original log-in screen back. It's a simple log-in screen with the computer's icon, user name, password and session details ...
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Remove Ubuntu login screen from Xubuntu 12.04

I fresh installed Ubuntu 12.04 then recently installed xubuntu-desktop on top of it as I don't like Unity's slowness. Still when logging in it shows Ubuntu style login screen. Now I want to bring ...
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Reset GDM to default Display Manager

I'm currently running Xubuntu 10.04 LTS and wanted to try out the SLiM display manager on my system. Well I installed it (from the synaptic package manager) and something really bad happened; I can't ...
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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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Is it possible to use the 'unity-greeter' for LightDM on Xubuntu 11.10?

I was wondering if there is a way to use the 'unity-greeter' instead of 'lightdm-gtk-greeter' for LightDM on Xubuntu Oneiric. I tried installing the unity-greeter package and changing the greeter-...
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How do I create a .xession / .xinitrc file to launch the default Xubuntu-Session?

I'm trying to use SLiM instead of GDM as a login manager, but I fail miserably when creating the proper .xsession / .xinitrc file needed by SLiM. How would a proper .xession file look like to start ...
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Is there a way to change user picture in Xubuntu, and actually display it on login?

I am aware that the way to change user picture, is creating a .face file on /home... The thing is, this only works when one checks the users and groups on System directory... When it's time to login, ...
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