Questions tagged [login-screen]
Questions about the login screen, specifically customizing/troubleshooting it.
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super + space not working in login page
on the login page, changing the keyboard language is not possible with super + space shortcut. by pressing super + space it shows changing language popup but does not affect keyboard language.
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Is it possible to configure GNOME settings on Ubuntu through dconf database? Or is it possible to have a custom login (greeter) screen on Ubuntu?
I have a custom login screen with a welcome screen on my CentOS machine, and I am trying to figure out how to do this on my Ubuntu as well.
My /etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/00-login-screen looks like this:
[org/...
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Input not supported on 75Hz monitor
After getting this new monitor, I have always had display issues with it. This isn’t is just normal Ubuntu, I’ve had issues with every flavor and linux distrobution. For some reason, displaying ...
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Unable to login, blank screen does not revive, after upgrade to 22.04
Yesterday I attempted an OS upgrade from Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS to 22.04 LTS. The machine being upgraded was a new Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 10. Following the upgrade I have two severe problems ...
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mouse and keyboard not working in Ubuntu 22.04
I'm running Ubuntu 22.04. I just got this box (HP Z220 Workstation) back from a student who was using it successfully. However, when I boot, my mouse and keyboard are not working at login.
The machine ...
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Loop login - /tmp permission issue
I am facing loop login issue on Ubuntu 22.10.
I was able to log into the shell and observed the following /tmp permissions:
drwxr-xr-x 20 arnaud arnaud 60K mars 24 08:55 tmp
I was able work around ...
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Authentication Required popup blocked access to my laptop
I see this popup after reboot and it doesn't allow me to login into my laptop. Also I can't enter my password into the textbox.
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Ubuntu 22.04 won’t let put the password
I upgraded ubuntu to version 22.04 just today, when it finshed the upgrade, it restarted the machine, however since then when boots and gets to login screen, I can see my username but it won’t move so ...
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Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS. Login issue after suspend / inactivity
Sometimes i can't login after screen lock due to inactivity or suspend. I type in password, it processes 5 seconds and then clears out the password. Trying several times doesn't work. Only after ...
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Solving "Kernel Panic - Not Syncing: Attempted to Kill Init!" Error During Ubuntu Installation on Old PC
I am currently using Windows 7 on my PC and I am trying to install Ubuntu using a USB drive that I flashed with Balena Etcher. However, when I insert the USB into the port on my old PC and try to ...
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How to take a screenshot of login screen
I want to take screenshot of login screen in ubuntu 22.04.1.
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xRDP login dialog really small
My laptop that I'm using has a 3840x2160 13" screen. I'm using a Ubuntu 22.04 image on Hyper-V that I got from Microsoft. When I connect to it everything works fine except for one thing the login ...
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How can I ensure I can login to my laptop with a failing screen?
I have a Lenovo Flex with Ubuntu installed and the screen has been increasingly unreliable (flickering, sometimes just black). I'd like to ensure I can still use the computer when the screen dies, so ...
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black screen in login Ubuntu 22.04
If I turn on my PC and not my monitor when I turn on my monitor the display is black and I don't see the login.
I must turn on the monitor before I turn on the PC to see the login.
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Ubuntu 18.04 password
I am running long running matlab code on Ubuntu 18.04.
Can I do something that requires a password so that there is no user login while the analyzes are being made on the computer ?
So when I'm not at ...
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Problem at login following update to Ubuntu Studio 22.04
I have a Lenovo T460p Laptop with Core i5 CPU, 16GB RAM and a 250GB SSD.
Error message at login page:
The current theme cannot be loaded due to the errors below please select another theme.
See ...
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LXqt login screen choices - what are the differences?
I tried installing LXqt on Ubuntu. The login screen offers the following choices:
Openbox
Lubuntu
LXQt Desktop
Ubuntu on Xorg
Ubuntu
Ubuntu on Wayland (Wayland)
Ubuntu (Wayland)
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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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failure of startup to login screen -18.04
Was using bleach bit to cleanup. PC has very low disk space. Now won't start up and is showing stopping user manager for UID 123. NB: PC shut down unanticipated and now no start up to login.
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on startup login screen has default wallpaper
I am on kubuntu 22.04 and when I start up my device, login screen shows the default login background not the one I set in settings.
waking from sleep or locking screen shows correct login screen ...
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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.
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During the boot, the display resolution seems to be messed up and everything is displayed in a distorted manner. ...
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KDE Plasma, virtual keyboard on login
I see complaints online going back as far as 2009 about a large virtual keyboard that appears and covers the login prompt upon system boot.
Boot.
Login screen quickly disappears and is replaced by a ...
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"sorry that did not work. please try again" when logging into vps
I am a new ubuntu user. I have a XRDP remote desktop setup on my vps. Whenever I connect, the user is "root", but the root password does not work even thought I am putting it in 100% correct....
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How to change the log in keyboard layout in Ubuntu 22.04?
I'm a former windows user and completly new to linux and ubuntu (I had no idea what kernel, or booted, or distro was until a day ago). I just installed it to try it out. I am however not able to ...
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Series of cascading issues
I just had many problems of increasing severity in rapid succession.
I am not terribly computer literate, so sorry if I don't have much information. I think I'm running 20.04. I can't easily get my ...
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Ubuntu Studio 22.04 Auto-login in-active and using On-screen Login
This is with a fresh install of Ubuntu Studio 22.04, the earlier /home/user folder contents intact to preserve extensive wine DAW plugins and with a dual boot into Windows 10.
Ubuntu Studio 22.04 uses ...
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live session locked out ubuntu-studio 22.10
22.10 Live version locks it's screen & demands a user & password - none of the usual suspects seems to work - may I please know the magic keys ?
I have processes running & cannot get to ...
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Log in screen requires mouse to show password field
The log in screen displays the user selection screen (only one user) and if I click the mouse, the password field is displayed and the keyboard works fine to enter the password.
However, I can't get ...
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How to change Ubuntu Logo on Login Screen?
I changed the logo named ubuntu-logo.png under /usr/share/plymouth
But, it reverts to the original logo (please click/tap on the "Image" for reference) after I rebooted my system.
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Anydesk Start Without Login 22.04
I'm using ubuntu 22.04, and I wanted to remote my computer using anydesk. Unfortunately, sometimes when remoting, I need to restart my computer, preventing me from reconnecting to any desk since I ...
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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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Not able to login, getting /etc/profile error while trying to login
I'm not able to login to my desktop. Every time I try to login to my system I get this error as shown in the screenshot.
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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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white screen on login pages after 22.04 update
I am experiencing an issue after update to 22.04 (UbuntuStudio with KDE Plasma): login (and lock) page are white, only the logo and text space are visible.
Everything is working fine, so not really a ...
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Black screen on login on Ubuntu 22.04.01 with Nvidia drivers
So, I have fresh install of Ubuntu 22.04 alongside Windows 10 (on separate drive). I have Nvidia GTX1050 GPU with Dell U2414H monitor via HDMI. Everything works fine, except for one small quirk. On ...
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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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Google Login problems
ScreenshotI'm using Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS aarch64 on my PI400 and really liking it, however when i try to log my Google account in Settings/Online Accounts I get the attached.
It's not urgent, just ...
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Setting XFCE-Session as default [closed]
How can I set ´Xfce-Session´ as default in the session selection during the login procedure?
Here is my ubuntu version information:
# lsb_release -a
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 21.04
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22.04 upgrade from 20.04 - stuck after login; lightdm problem?
Yesterday I upgraded my Ubuntu 20.04 Pixelbook (full Ubuntu, no Chrome nonsense) to 22.04. However, the system now gets stuck immediately after login. After I successfully log in, the login prompt ...
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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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How do I disable the screen going blank for the login screen in Ubuntu 22.04?
How do I prevent the screen from going blank after a period of inactivity for the login screen in 22.04?
I tried setting sleep-inactive-ac-timeout=0 and sleep-inactive-ac-type='nothing' in /etc/gdm3/...
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS slow boot and problems after update
I have ubuntu 18.04 LTS installed in my machine. Since the last update (kernel 4.15.0-176-generic) the machine is very slow to boot (login) and there are problems after the login (slow and laggy).
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Ubuntu 20.04 not starting after first encryption password
I start my computer, a Lenovo Thinkpad. Ubuntu 20.04 is asking for login encrypt disk password. Normally for the past year it was starting and asking for a second login password, but now only a black ...
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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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Ubuntu 20.04 Can't get passed login after update
4 days ago, I decided to install the update that "Software and Updates" has been suggesting for a while. After the progress dialog was gone, I closed the laptop lid, expecting it to sleep(...
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How do I set user background for lightDM login screen?
I am quite lost on how to set user-specific background.
There does not seem to be many resources on this matter.
Setting background from gnome-control-center does not work.
org.gnome.settings-daemon....
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Switching monitor of gdm3 from TV to PC monitor (Ubuntu 22.04)
I can't switch my login screen from my tv to the pc monitor. It's also not possible to change plug order as one is Display Port and the TV is HDMI. So, is there any way I can change the monitor on ...
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Clicking suspend turns the screen black for a moment and then takes me to login screen
Suspend was using fine, but for some reason unknown to me it has stopped working properly and takes me back to the login screen. I suspect that something is instantly causing the computer to wake up ...
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I cannot log in
I've been using Ubuntu for a few weeks and today I modified/tweaked it. I restarted my laptop and now I cannot log in. I try to log in but it takes me back to the log in screen. I don't want to lose ...
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Managed Ubuntu 20.04 system - login loop
I have been struggling with a login loop issue for ~1 month now and am unable to resolve it despite help from my work IT department. The issue is that I am unable to login through the GUI - if I do, I ...
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