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Ask Question Lightdm (Lightweight Display Manager) Is a Display Manager for the X. Org X Server. It Is the Default X Display Manager of Ubuntu. Lightdm Starts...
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LightDM (Lightweight Display Manager) is a Display Manager for the X.org X server. It is the default X display manager of Ubuntu. LightDM starts an X session and presents the user with a graphical login screen, so the user does not have to issue commands such as `startx` to start the X server
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Firefox can't create temp dir for guest user in lightdm
I've setup latest Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) to use lightdm, and enabled the guest account via a lightdm config.
This seems to work fine, and can login with an ephemeral guest account that gets removed on ...
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Software problem
it's newbie here I messed up with my laptop I tried installing Kali Linux repository using katoolin on terminal but at the mid due to "gpg:keyserver received failed error "the operation was ...
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Boot Problems in Ubuntu 22.04
I have several problems when booting into mate under Ubuntu 22.04
The boot starts both the console and tty1. Makes logging on in text mode nearly impossible
The graphical boot starts lightdm twice
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Why do lightdm and Xorg cause so much CPU load on my Xubuntu 20.04?
What is it that loads the CPU so unreasonably? (Lenovo W530 with Xubuntu 20.04.4 LTS, currently using kernel 5.4.0-110-generic x86_64).
After an upgrade, the CPU on my Lenovo W530 laptop spins at an ...
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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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cant re enable lightdm
I ran sudo systemctl disable lightdm.service and now i cant find a way to enable it.
Using xubuntu22 LTS
What I already tried with output:
sudo systemctl enable lightdm.service
Synchronizing state of ...
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KUBUNTU root login through GUI not possible
I have Kubuntu 22.04 installed with everything as default. It uses lightdm for for windo management. I can login as with root user in a terminal session; for example if I press alt F2 to get a ...
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Light Display Manager 1.30.0 won’t start seat0 on Ubuntu 20.04
I’ve been messing around with a fresh Ubuntu 20.04 install on an HP 17 laptop. I was feeling curious and adventurous and installed enlightenment, deepin, and arctica desktops, with the intention of ...
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When installing various desktop environments, how can one prevent user interactions requesting a selection of display managers like LightDM and GDM3? [duplicate]
I have a Bash setup script for Ubuntu. It is intended to be designed to minimise the user interactions needed to get to a fully set up system.
In the script, there might be commands like the following:...
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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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cannot enable display-manager
for some reason, the systemctl enable display-manager command fails:
Failed to enable unit: Refusing to operate on alias name or linked unit file: display-manager.service
my DE is xfce + lightdm
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Don't boot shortly after upgrading to 20.04 - but can launch startx manually on recovery mode
Using Kubuntu with Gnome installed (I think this is Ubuntu with extra steps but it's work computer, I did not choose flavor)
Computer is Lenovo T440P with 16 Go RAM (Core i5, integrated GPU)
Upgraded ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 - LightDM Auto Login Not Consistently Working
I've got a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04, but can't get auto login to work consistently.
The only workaround i've found is to add a 2 second wait time, but i want to get to the root of the issue.
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Unable to get x11vnc viewer working on a Ubuntu 20.04LTS machine
I am struggling to get x11vnc working on a ubuntu 20.04 server.
It works ok, if I am logged into the Dell idrac and have a viewer session open. I can connect fie from the Sophos firewall and see the ...
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How do I rice my Ubuntu Desktop?
I saw a few of the posts on r/unixporn with beautiful layouts and styled desktops with beautiful icons.
While the only thing I have done is position my dock on the right lol.
I recently had an issue ...
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