Questions tagged [login-screen]
Questions about the login screen, specifically customizing/troubleshooting it.
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Ubuntu Studio Login Screen Missing?
Just upgraded my machine to Ubuntu Studio (10.10), and am starting to learn my way around.
One thing I noticed off-the-bat is that the GDM login screen promoted on the Studio site is missing (http://...
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How to change the screen resolution for the GDM login screen?
I use a login list with faces and the icons and text are tiny in GDM. Is there an easy way to change the resolution of the login screen? I'm currently using 10.04 Lucid.
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Login timeout disable? [closed]
How can I disable automatic timeout entries in the login screen? Allow me to explain. My typical experience goes something like this: I put my laptop to sleep, then wake it. When it wakes, it comes ...
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Screensaver forces logout? [closed]
I am using the most recent ubuntu desktop edition 10.10. Everything works fine, except the screensaver. Instead of going to the screensaver the OS forces a logout and all my apps are shutdown.
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How can I set the clock to 24 hour mode? [closed]
How can I set the clock to global (24h time) in Maverick instead of am/pm? Including the login screen?
I mean there's no option to do that in rclick clock > preferences or in system > admin > time &...
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Force gdm login screen to the primary monitor
I have two monitors attached to my video card. Primary monitor has a resolution equal to 1280x1024 and the second has 1920x1200. My gdm login screen always appears on the second monitor even if it is ...
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Screen magnifier wrecks login screen — how to get rid of it?
In the Ubuntu / GNOME login screen, I tried some of the different accessibility settings out of curiosity. Big mistake!
Enabling the "use screen magnifier" (or whatever) option breaks down the view ...
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Is there a way to replace kdm with gdm?
Well i tried kubuntu not long ago , didnt liked it and purged it from my system,
except one thing, I still have the kde login screen, is there anyway to get my gnome login screen back?
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What login screen program will 11.04 use?
Will Ubuntu continue using that old (GNOME 2.X) login screen, or create its own, or there will be a new one in Gnome 3?
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Blank screen at Ubuntu login
I am running a 64 Bit Ubuntu, AMD quadcore, with 4gb of RAM and a Nvidia gtx260 graphics card. The issue is as follows:
Once Ubuntu has booted and I get to the login screen, my screen goes black and ...
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How can I change location of login dialog in GDM?
How can I change location of login panel on Ubuntu 10.10 start up page, where entering password. I want to move it down and now it is in center of screen
thank you
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Will Ubuntu 11.04 use GNOME 3?
Will Ubuntu 11.04 use Gnome 3? If so, what differences for end-user is going to be? I know that there won't be Gnome shell, but what about the login screen? Will Ubuntu continue using that old (GNOME ...
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Why I have to wait some seconds before I can input my password on login?
When on login I click on the user, immediately shows password field but before I can type it I have to wait some seconds, sometimes even 5! I don't see this problem on other computers that I have, ...
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Laptop works fine with ac adapter, hangs after login screen using battery [closed]
I did an Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop Edition clean install (amd64 version) on a notebook Medion Akoya E1311. With AC adapter everything works fine, but using battery, it hangs after login screen.
I can ...
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Screensaver + lock double login problem after Maverick upgrade
Just found something strange after updating from 10.04 to 10.10. I've set up my screensaver to lock the account when activated.
When I log back in, I see my desktop for a second and then the ...
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How can I change the default user shown in the login screen?
Well, the title is pretty much it.
When I start my system I always get the same user on the login screen (this is the original user created when the system was first installed). How can I change that ...
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Tweaking Login Screen
Are there any applications similar to Login Screen GDM2?
It's only supported till Ubuntu Lucid, is the Splash Screen after login available for MavericK?
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Can't login, kde loads, then back to kdm
Hello to all (K)Ubuntu users,
I installed Kubuntu 10.10 after it's release.
(I used to use ubuntu, I want to try kubuntu now)
Now I can't login in Kubuntu:
When(/if) I login with my username and ...
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Auto select user on login screen
I am new to Ubuntu (10.10), migrating from Windows 7 and I want to setup my login screen so it auto-selects user (there is only one user profile on my system) and that it asks for my password so I can ...
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Hangs on Splash Screen after login (auto-login), how can I fix this?
Computer: Toshiba Terca A4
OS: Ubuntu Desktop 10.10
After installing 10.10, the splash screen hangs and the mouse pointer appears.
Anyone know what I can do to fix this?
~/.xsession-errors has
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Disabling assistive technologies during login
I have a laptop with Ubuntu 10.04.
My daughter was playing with the keyboard on the login screen, and it seems she activated some assistive technologies because now the screen is split vertically and ...
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How to input commands on the Live CD mode selection screen
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-fix-ubuntu-10-04-lts-lucid-blank-screen-at-startup.html
I have the problem in the above answer page and to fix it I need to highlight Live Mode on the CD/USB and ...
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Where is the order of names in gdm login screen stored? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I change the order of the users in the login screen?
Where is the users' login history stored that governs the order in which the users' names appear in the login ...
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gnome-power-manager is running while trying to log in. How to get rid of it? [closed]
After booting into the ubuntu login screen and clicking on my user name and entering the password, I get a dialog stating that gnome-power-manager is still running. The dialog presents 2 buttons, 1 to ...
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gnome exits unexpectedly
Here's the situation: Since I upgraded to 10.4 LTS, my gnome session unexpectedly ends: it logs off.
This does not happen every time, but rather randomly. I've tried to force this event, suspecting ...
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Takes forever to login?
After upgrading to 10.04, Ubuntu takes a long time (1-2 minutes) to login after typing the credentials. The majority of this time the dialog box says "checking credentials". How do I even go about ...
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Delete Ubuntu to free up space for computer restart properly
I copied photos onto my notebook hard drive and got a warning of limited hard drive space...I continued to copy photos onto my hard dirve. I got a message that the space limit was reached an no more ...
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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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My computer does not want to start-up
I copied photos onto my notebook hard drive and got a warning of limited hard drive space...I continued to copy photos onto my hard dirve. I got a message that the space limit was reached an no more ...
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Can't seem to get my login screen back after installing slim
At one point I switched from GDM to slim and now I can't seem to get past the splash screen. After pressing Esc I can see that it is stuck on Starting X Display Manager: Slim. I need to get back to ...
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How to log-in via TTY by instead of GDM? [closed]
I want my Ubuntu box to boot directly into a tty login screen and after it does that I want it to automatically run startx how would I go about doing this?
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Automatic logoff [closed]
I had a problem with my Ubuntu 10.04 that automatically log off while working,Even i working with Excel its automatically log off and returned to login screen,i checked it all the power settings and ...
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Login fail with low graphics then crash? [closed]
I was using Transmission to download some stuff, when I got a notification that there was only 800 MB of free space left.
I soon rebooted, only to find out, that i could not login again. I would get ...
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How can a user avoid entering password on boot? [closed]
Is there a way to avoid entering a password in the process of booting up?
I am using a new and latest installation of Ubuntu, with Gnome desktop in it.
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How do you start-up in the login screen with Num Lock on? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to enable numlock at boot time for login screen?
I use numbers in my password and would therefore like to start Ubuntu with Num-Lock enabled. This would also be handy in a ...
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How can I change the login screen theme in GDM?
How can I change the Login screen theme? Is there a graphical way or no?
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How do I go back to KDE splash / login after installing XFCE?
I started with Ubuntu Karmic, and wanted to try KDE. So I installed kubuntu-desktop. Then I wanted to see how XFCE progressed, so I installed xfce4. I now have Kubuntu with an XFCE splash and login.
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