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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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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How disable programmatically notebook built-in keyboard before login screen
How can I disable a notebooks built-in keyboard - before the login screen.
I have a non functioning built-in keyboard on my notebook. In it's current state it types characters randomly. I am using an ...
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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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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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Login screen - set default user
On login screen i have two options: my default user (let's say User1) and "Other User". When i work as "Other user" and make "Log out", on logon screen the 'active' one is "Other User". I wish that ...
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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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Ubuntu 16.04 flickering and disappearing screen
Running Skylake/Nvidia GTX 950 on a clean install. I'm no expert at all and I haven't got a clue what to do. I've tried various things but nothing works and the guides are often not clear enough for ...
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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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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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Unable to enter gnome session - configuration GNOME power manager failed to install
When I enter the password to login into the gnome session, it says the configuration for gnome-power manager installation failed and when I enter the password I get logged out automatically, to the ...
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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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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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I am not able to login. Getting "Sorry that didnt work. Please try again" error before entering password
My system is not even letting me enter my password. As soon as i select the username to enter my password i am getting an error "That didnt work Please try again." I tried to login to tty by pressing ...
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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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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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How to fix "The system is running in low-graphics mode" error?
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This is an attempt to create a canonical question that covers all
instances of "low-graphics mode" error that occurs to a user,
including but not limited to installation of wrong ...
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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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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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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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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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How to disable sleep/suspend at login screen?
I've been at trying to do this for the last several hours with no progress.
I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 and I want to disable the sleep/suspend at the login screen (before logging in with any user) so ...
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sddm blocks screen with on-screen keyboard in Ubuntu 20.04
I have recently installed KDE 5 (kde-plasma-desktop) on Ubuntu 20.04, and as part of the installation, it asked me to switch the login screen manager to sddm.
When sddm starts (either on boot, or ...
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Keyboard and mouse are extremely slow / lagging in Ubuntu 18.04's login screen
I have just installed Ubuntu 18.04 in a computer that has an ASRock EP2C602-4L/D16 motherboard with two Intel Xeon E5-2660v2 CPUs and 128 Gb of DDR3 RAM. Ubuntu is installed in a 1Tb SSD.
Everything ...
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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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Ubuntu 15.10 randomly crashing back to login screen
fresh install of Ubuntu 15.10 here.
Everything works fine, but I'm getting random crashes back to the login screen.
I pasted my syslog here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/12989589/
Edit: Confirmed bug on ...
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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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How to remove GNOME and GNOME on Xorg which shows up on login screen?
Newbie here. On my Ubuntu 18.04 LTS gdm login screen, clicking the cog wheel below the password field shows the following options.
Cinnamon
Cinnamon (Software Rendering)
GNOME
GNOME on Xorg
Ubuntu
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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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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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How can I change the Keyboard Layout on login screen?
I changed my Keyboard Layout from Swedish to English, but now my password doesn’t work and I can’t login. I need a way to change the keyboard layout at the login screen without having access to the ...
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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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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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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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Unlocking Ubuntu with a pin instead of a long password
I am trying to set up a pin unlock for my laptop running Ubuntu 19.10. Everything is going very smooth except that I don't know how to do it. I found a page that has the procedure.
https://bbs....
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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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How do I change login screen theme or background in Ubuntu 20.04?
How can I change the Ubuntu 20.04 login screen theme or background?
In the previous version 19.10, I can change it from the CSS file under Yaru theme but now there is no CSS file.
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Running a webbrowser on the screen saver or login screen?
I would really like people to be able to use my locked computer to surf, so I would like some way to run a browser on login screen. So can I make GDM run Firefox in some way? It would be cooler if I ...
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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.
also in ...
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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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