Questions tagged [login-screen]
Questions about the login screen, specifically customizing/troubleshooting it.
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No user shows up in login screen
When I get to the login screen, it appears as normal, except no user is selectable and the ubuntu logo on the bottom of the screen is missing as well. When I restart the machine several times, my user ...
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Ubuntu login screen instead of suspending
after updating to ubuntu 21 when I try to suspend, the screen will only turn black for a while and then the login screen apears. If I press suspend again, the screen turns black again and I'm stuck in ...
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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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Ubuntu 20.04 Black screen on login with Displaylink Driver
I have a problem with displaylink driver on Ubuntu. Whenever I turn on my PC (cold boot doesn't change anything) if the display link hub is plugged in, Ubuntu just shows a black screen instead of the ...
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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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On the login screen everything is fine but when after login pixels are shown on screen
I use ubuntu 20.04 on the login screen everything is fine but when I login then pixelated lines and patters come on the screen. Some keyboard button also stopped working after login. Please help. I ...
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Login page doesn't appear
Whenever I boot my laptop, my Ubuntu 20.04 doesn't show login page and just shows a cursor in a black screen.
I find out by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2 and then pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1, the login page appears.
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How to navigate gdm3 login manager with keyboard shortcuts
Pretty much I want to know how to access the cog-icon with a keyboard shortcut. Is there a way? (Everything I know about Linux tells me there should be and probably is.)
I know this is a question that ...
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How can I execute a command before login?
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
I want to execute the command xdotool mousemove 960 540 to center my mouse pointer before login. I can do it just by adding the command to Startup Applications, but then it only runs ...
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Custom login screen with screenfetch and glances
I have a home Ubuntu server installation with Lubuntu desktop (sddm display manager), and I would like to make a custom login screen that shows:
The prompt to log in with the user on the left
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Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop unless a different user logs in
I'm trying not to make a duplicate of a previous question, but I do have the same problem. I'm using gdm3 and have purged, and reinstalled multiple times. A different user 'test' and sudo startx work. ...
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ubuntu keeps loging me out randomly
I have been having this problem recently:
Ubuntu keeps loging me out randomly even when I am actively moving the mouse and pressing
keys.
The screen goes blank and there is this cursor thing at the ...
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How to replace login screen system
I'm having issues with my the default ubuntu login system, because
It takes FOREVER to load when I close and open my laptop
It often doesn't load correctly, the dock icons are missing and opening the ...
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How to restore login screen to Ubuntu's default?
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04. I had been using Big Sur GTK theme (https://github.com/vinceliuice/WhiteSur-gtk-theme) for a long time and recently I decided to go back to Ubuntu's default look, as my ...
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Purple screen after upgrading to Ubuntu 21.10
Couldn't log in because the gdm3 login screen has no password field, see screenshot:
The unability to switch from current session to the TTY3 text console (Ctrl+Alt+F4 or F3 didn't work here) forced ...
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After boot go automatically to graphical login screen
I installed Ubuntu 18.04.6 desktop and then lubuntu-desktop.
Now the system boots to non-graphical login screen. The user of the laptop
will have to press ctrl+alt+F7 to go to graphical login screen.
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Unable to login to Ubuntu 20.04 VMWare Workstation
I upgrade my Ubuntu 20.04 VMware Workstation, after restarting, I was not able to login.
When I type password, a black screen appears and then back to the screen in picture.
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VirtualBox: Ubuntu Server loads GUI for Login
I have installed on a MacOS Virtual Box with some Ubuntu installations, some servers and Desktop releases. For Ubuntu Server 20:04 available since months ago, yesterday I executed the image as usual: ...
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Pressing login makes the screen black
I am new to Ubuntu and I decided to change to it from windows due to my work.I successfully installed it but after I press login my screen gets blank and flashing some part of my screen as on ...
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Why does list of sessions types change when I switch user
When I log in with an user I have the following list
Gnome
Gnome classique
Ubuntu
But if I switch user, I have this list
Gnome
Gnome classique
Gnome on Wayland
Ubuntu
Ubuntu On Wayland
Whereas I ...
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Login Greeter takes 20~30 sec (after bootup apparently finished) to appear
I looked into this question among a few others (on and off SO) for a solution.
The upvoted (but not accepted) answer to that question, suggests entropy might be a problem.
I have infact from the ...
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How to Change Ubuntu 21.10 GDM background to a Image or to a Color
How to Change Ubuntu 21.10 gdm background to a Image or to a Color.
Below Pic is of Ubuntu 20.04 GDM Login Screen
Is there a way similar to this post which is for Ubuntu 20.04 How do I change login ...
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keyboard takes time for starting before login
I have installed ubuntu 20.04.3 on my hp laptop. Every time I try to login after suspend or sometimes even after boot it takes a long time for my laptop inbuilt keyboard to start. I have to wait ...
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Erratic management of dual-display configuration on Ubuntu 20.04
I have two displays connected to my PC with Intel UHD Graphics 630 running Ubuntu 20.04.3. 40" display #2 on HDMI1 port is disabled in configuration, 20" display #1 on DVI-D is my main ...
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Ubuntu 21.10 - GDM problem - login screen
I just upgrade my desktop from Ubuntu 21.04 to 21.10. Everything works fine! I was happy.
But after that, I run a wrong program that will change the background of the graphical login screen to ...
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Avoid having to press any key to unlock screen [20.04]
When opening up my laptop (dell xps) from sleep, I would like to be able to just tap the power button for fingerprint login and get straight into my desktop.
Currently there's a lock screen with the ...
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How to change lock screen and login screen theme to any other theme
I need help changing the login screen theme as well as the lock screen theme to Orchis.
I tried:
How to customize Lock Screen theme in Ubuntu 20.04
Change Ubuntu 20.04 login theme
How do I change ...
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What does the "Not In List" button do in the Ubuntu login screen?
In Ubuntu 21.04, what does the "Not In List" button do when you're trying to log in to your account?
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lightdm crash (once) & thereafter login screen shows "failed to authenticate" - impossible to login
OS: ubuntu 20.04 with lightdm
HW: Raspberry Pi 4B 8GB
History: this system has worked for well over a year without issues.
There was a random crash of the sound system (this has happened before), my ...
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Which packages contains the strings present on login screen?
I'm asking this because I contribute to translations on Launchpad and I need to test them.
I have translated respective strings for words like 'Password' and 'Not listed?' from the gnome-shell package ...
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How do I troubleshoot desktop crashes on 21.04?
I am bumping into desktop crashes (called login loop by many) on Ubuntu 21.04.
This started happening after an interrupted sudo apt install... session which had run 70 (very low bandwidth) hours ...
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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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Ubuntu 20.04 no login screen [duplicate]
My Ubuntu machine will not show a login screen when turned on.It’s an known working install.I do get the Ubuntu splash screen on boot but after that the screen just goes black. None of the information ...
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Black screen on login GUI after changing username
I have installed Ubuntu 20.04.1 in a virtual machine.
I only have one user and after some days of use I decided to change the user name.
I changed the user name successfully, but after logging in with ...
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Black screen, nvidia-modeset : ERROR: GPU:0 Idling display engine time out
How do I troubleshoot/fix this issue?
Using a nvidia GPU, the system is able to show the motherboard firmware logo and Grub screen. After a Ubuntu version is selected, either 18.04 or 20.01, Ubuntu ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 keeps trying to login
When booting my laptop with Ubuntu 20.04 I get to the login screen, here I see my account as normal; after I click on my account it keeps submitting the unfilled password over and over again for ...
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How do I fix the Ubuntu Login Loop Problem [duplicate]
I am using ubuntu 18.04 as a dual boot with my windows and the storage got full, which caused a login loop problem. I try to login into the system with the correct password but the screen flashes to ...
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Ubuntu - Laptop shutsdown at login after some time
I have windows and ubuntu installed on a thinkpad L14. When I start my laptop I can choose wich OS I want to start. Windows is working properly by the way. When I reach de login screen of ubunto, ...
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Can someone explain what happened here?
What I did before:
Updated some apps and linux
Installed some apps
Used bleachbit then power off
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How to bring up drumroll sound at login screen in 20.04
As the title says, I've started using Ubuntu again after using other distros for quite some time, but I'm starting to feel a bit nostalgic for the old drumroll sound (system-ready.ogg) that would play ...
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I get a black screen after loging on ubuntu vm after update
I had similar problem before but it was caused by bad controller.
Things i tried:
reinstalling VBoxGuestAdditions.iso
changing Graphics Controller
changing CPU, video Memory
tried recovery mode but ...
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Login Loop on Ubuntu 20.04 with no . XAuthority
I have gotten into a login loop after upgrading from 18.04 to 20.04.
The cause might be that I upgraded from root?
Do you know any solutions to this?
(I have tried most of them but they didn't work)
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How can I make my log-in screen appear on my external monitor only?
My setup currently consists of a laptop hooked up to an external monitor, and I would like for my log-in screen to display only on my external monitor when I boot up the computer as it would be faster ...
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When I switch to xfce4 desktop, my login credentials don't work until I switch back
Installed the xfce4 desktop environment, logged out, did the desktop environment switch, now I can't login. How do I get xfce to recognize my login?
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Set the login screen to a different fixed refresh rate?
I am using Ubuntu 21.04 with a 144 Hz monitor.
I wonder if there is a way to set the login screen to 144 Hz?
This would probably avoid to switching the refresh rate at session startup (screen going ...
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Login screen gets cursed
It gets cursed only on login. Everything else working fine.
I tried to reinstall the system, downgrade to 18.04 and reinstalling desktop environment.
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Ubuntu 18.04 gdm3 login loop
I am currently using gdm3 destop manager while I login it gets stuck in login loop.
I have followed almost all the procedures suggested in this post
Permissions of Xauthority and /tmp were fine.
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Change keyboard layout for login screen
I have changed my keyboard layout in my MATE session. However, when I log out (or reboot) amd try to log in again, the login screen still has the previous keyboard layout.
How do I change the keyboard ...
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How do I allow both fingerprint and password entry on lock/login screen regardless of prompt type?
I have both fingerprint and password login enabled. However each only works when the corresponding prompt is visible.
When the fingerprint prompt is displayed, entering passwords doesn't work.
When ...
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No login screen : black screen
Hello and thank you for reading!
After and update, Ubuntu asked for a reboot. However after this reboot, I can't login anymore : I have a black screen with a black cross as a mouse cursor... Ctrl+Alt+...
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