Questions tagged [login-screen]
Questions about the login screen, specifically customizing/troubleshooting it.
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can't signin to ubuntu due to sign-in loop
I am experiencing couple of errors on my ubuntu machine from the booting process to the sign in screen.
My Ubuntu is in emergency mode. Whenever I bootup my machine it shows the below message
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Black Screen on Login After Installing Ubuntu 24.04 - nvidia
I recently installed Ubuntu 24.04 on my system and performed all the available updates. However, I’m encountering a frustrating issue every time I reboot. When I reach the login screen, my primary ...
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Dual Boot Ubuntu 24.04 Screen Flickering on Start Up
I just recently installed Ubuntu 24.04 as dual boot with windows 11. the installation works great. Until I noticed that whenever I restart after using Windows 11 to run Ubuntu, it will flicker just ...
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why does ubuntu 24.04lts crash to my login screen?
I'll be browsing with FireFox and suddenly the machine locks-up (conky freezes, mouse freezes, keyboard non-responsive, etc.) , but the hard drive light is blinking away furiously, then it crashes to ...
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I want to set my login screen's orientation to portrait
This is a fresh installation of most recent Kubuntu. I have everything else running in portrait mode. The last thing is to get my login screen to be in portrait mode. How do I do that?
I'm hoping for ...
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Gnome / OpenBox not working as display manager but lxqt / Lubuntu is
I need Gnome as my display manager. So this is a strange case.
I used to be a windows user but then I switched to Ubuntu and was using Gnome as usual. Everything was fine but one day I installed an ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 on Zephyrus G16 2024 : blinking black cursor on boot after installing NVIDIA drivers
I have the 2024 version of the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16 with an NVIDIA RTX 4070 GPU. Ubuntu 22.04 works fine until I install NVIDIA drivers, and once I install the drivers, upon restart, I see the boot ...
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remove time lock with yubikey
Ubuntu 23.10:
After 5 incorrect password entries, the entry is blocked for a certain period of time. I would like to be able to remove this time lock with the yubikey so that I can enter a password ...
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Keyboard shortcut to open top-panel menu of the logout screen in Ubuntu?
After I'm done using my laptop, I always first log out and then shutdown my laptop. Now, I want to able to do that using keyboard shortcuts, and arrow keys to access the menu options from the menu.
I ...
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Why is ubuntu throwing me out to the log in screen?
I am currently using the Ubuntu 23.10 and sometimes while I am using the computer with no big load of operation it freezes and the login screen appears. Sometimes I am coping large amount of files or ...
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Unable to login to Ubuntu 24.04
I'm unable to login to Ubuntu 24.04. When trying to login I get this screen.
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How can I have the user switcher default to being onscreen the Ubuntu 22.04LTS lock screen?
I've just installed the default install of Ubuntu 22.04LTS Desktop edition after a hiatus of using Ubuntu for a few years.
It is installed on an office computer and there are 2 very regular users that ...
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Black screen on Ubuntu 22.04 after booting without upgrades
I am using Ubuntu 22.04 on an MSI motherboard with an ASUS GeForce GT 730 2GB DDR3 BRK EVO graphics card I bought six months ago. Until last Friday everything was good, and I could plug in two screens....
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Ubuntu 23.10 login loop occurs on raspberry Pi 5 Gnome 45.2
I am trying to log in using corect uid and password but it loops and always come back to the authentication black screen.
Ctrl+alt+F2 using the exact same uid+pwd works well.
It happened just after I ...
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Black login/logout screen on Kubuntu 22.04
https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/XZbGhMJtnn/
This had me going for several days. I thought the following boot message error was the problem: [ 1.159596] hub 8-0:1.0: config failed, hub doesn't have any ...
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Changing Login Screen from List to Manual Entry?
Is it possible to change the login screen so that instead of clicking on your username you have to type it in?
I did ask ChatGPT this and the first time the answer it gave me seemed to work but every ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 black screen
I do have dual boot in my laptop(HP core i5 8th gen).Ubuntu goes black screen for inactivity and does not wake up.Even the login screen goes black after loading.I tried to increase the sleep time and ...
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Blockscreen lost in Ubuntu 22.04
I'm having problems with the behaviour of ubuntu 22.04 desktop. I don't know why, the block button stoped working. I mean the "lock" icon key in the Logitech MX Keys. I think it stoped ...
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Yubikey inserted always asking for smart card login and no longer for password
I'm using Ubuntu 23.10. My company provided me a Yubikey for VPN access and everything works fine. However whenever I turn my pc on, the gdm screen only asks for smart card login (and no longer for ...
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Why does my Ubuntu look like a terminal and not like the nice-looking UI that I am expecting? [duplicate]
I recently installed Ubuntu on my old MacBook Pro 2016 (ubuntu-22.04.3-live-server-amd64.iso). Why does the UI look like a terminal (see the following picture) rather than all the pretty UIs that I ...
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Center the login screen on Ubuntu 23.10
Since I got my Ubuntu 23.10 installed the login screen text box stays on the left, whereas I believe it should be in the center of the screen. Here is a picture of my login screen:
I don't know if ...
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Black screen after disk login
I tried logging into my laptop and after I unlock the disk I get a screen with text that appears for seconds and then a black screen. I have tried to open the terminal using ctrl + alt + f2/f4/F5 etc ...
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Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS (KDE) login screen hangs intermittently
I have just installed Ubuntu Studio 22.04 onto Dell Precision 7530 laptop. I've come across a bothersome issue:
The login screen hangs occasionally - i can maybe type one character, but then it ...
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can't have multiple login screen
I am trying to use Ubuntu 22.04 on a PC and multiple X terminal (vcxsrv on window)
XDMCP and X-11 works but i can't have multiple greeter running at the same time :
Until i login on the server screen,...
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After entering the password and hitting enter the screen is blurred
Ubuntu boots normally and reaches the login screen. After entering the password and hitting enter, screen goes blurred. Is there any way to troubleshoot this problem?
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Gnome error during login
At the time of login in Ubuntu 23.10 & gnome 45.1, I'm faced with this screen.
after repeated attempts of logging-out & restarting, it finally lets me in.
I tried to pull some logs using:
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How to permanently set a custom keyboard layout for Linux console, login screen (GDM) and desktop session (GNOME/Wayland/XWayland)
I'd like to have simple instructions of how to permanently and consistently set up a custom keyboard layout configuration for all of these user interfaces in a standard Ubuntu desktop installation ...
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Keyboard Layout Login Screen
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04. I changed my password to one which is not even in the Latin alphabet. How can I change the keyboard layout on the login screen?
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ubuntu 22.04 gdm3 blank screen on boot
I'm running Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS and can't get gdm or lightdm to work correctly on boot. When it comes up the screens are blank, but the process is running (see below).
nvidia-smi returns correct ...
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No Desktop after version upgrade
Thinks look dark!
After doing a system upgrade from 22.04 to 23.04 my laptop displays a black screen, not even wallpaper. However, I can login via ssh. I've flailed about in ignorance and gdm.service ...
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Disarranged login screen in Ubuntu 22.04
Whenever I wake up my computer from suspend the login screen acts kind of weirdly.
It's all the way in the top left and then jumps back to normal a second later when I start typing.
Do you have any ...
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How to change the resolution of the login window?
I've installed Ubuntu 22.04.3 gnome and My device resolution is 1600x900. But the login screen resolution seems like 1024x768. I've tried changing the resolution from the settings manger but the login ...
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Screen flickering on login attempt
Yesterday I had an update, today when something weird is happening, when the machine boots it all seems fine but when I reach the login screen the screen glitches and flickers, it's completely ...
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Screen glitching when login user in Kubuntu 22.04 [temporary fixed?]
I just getting update & the system requires me to restart. I do it like the way it told me & everything is normal.
But right after my laptop shows the user login screen, it immediately ...
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Windows 11 dualboot ubuntu 22.04, casually crashing or back to login screen in linux
The problem is pretty much in the title, windows work perfectly, I deactivated the fast start beacuse I read can cause problems. I have windows in a ssd, ubuntu in a usb and shared hdd with windows.
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Login loop both from GUI and console
Whenever I try to login to my Ubuntu desktop, it asks for login in a loop.
I tried to login from console (Ctrl+Alt+F3), but it's also not working. Console also asks for login in a loop. Now I am ...
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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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Login screen disappears after a few seconds
I'm on Ubuntu Studio 22.04.2 LTS (5.15.0-76 low latency 64)
When I boot up and get to the login screen, I have a few seconds to type the password ans enter before I get an empty black screen with a ...
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After upgrading to 22.04 screen stays at a black screen when logging in
I'm using a Lenovo ThinkPad P15s. I recently upgraded Ubuntu to 22.04, but after rebooting I can't seem to log in to my account, and the screen stays blank. I performed a system restore and was able ...
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etc/update-motd.d added script which executes. But after change the old version is being executed
My script executes OK. But when I altered it on login the old one is still executing instead of the amended one. Do I need to refresh/restart something (except system :) ) for my changes to be ...
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Can not login to (graphical terminal) and stuttering
I'm new to Linux and chose Ubuntu onto recommendation of The Odin project.
I got an issue that everything is slow and laggy (stuttering) and I tried to fix it with doing system updates. According to ...
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Ubuntu login screen seems like 22.04 after updating to 23.04
I updated Ubuntu 22.04 to 23.04. But after booting up. The login screen seems like it is from 22.04. When I suspend and see the login page it seems like 23.04. And the graphics of buttons at login ...
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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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How to customize the login avatar? I want to remove the circle that is automatically put around my picture
The default avatar looked really nice as a transparent ping outline of a person. It had no circle around it so I wanted to put a zergling as my avatar as transparent .png. Unfortunately it ...
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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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Make GNOME keyboard shortcuts available on lockscreen (login screen )
I configured some usefull custom keyboard shortcut via gnome built-in shortcut feature (for example a keyboard shortcut for quick suspending ).
However, when I lock my computer, they are not available ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 unable to boot to desktop, stuck at command-line login screen
Ubuntu 22.04 unable to boot to desktop, stuck at command-line login screen after I ran sudo update-initramfs -u
and sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target
It only shows login terminal login ...
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how to resolve D-Bus system message bus
after an update i restarted my system after the restart i got stuck at the loading screen after pressing the F2 it says
Failed to start System Logging service.
Failed to start D-Bus system Message Bus....
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Installed nvidia drivers: black screen with blinking cursor
I was running Wayland on 22.10 using nouveau on a GTX 550 Ti, and decided to install nvidia's 390 drivers using the Additional Drivers tool. The installation finished with asking me to reboot. After ...
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Opening laptop shows regular screen for split second before log-in
Upon opening my laptop, the screen always flickers to the regular desktop with all the windows open and readable before going to the log-in screen.
I'm on a ThinkPad E470 currently running Ubuntu 22....
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