Questions tagged [display-manager]
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Arch linux greeter without DM
I'm using Arch Linux with i3wm with xinit which results in having tty1 as my "greeter".
I wanna know if there is any possibility to have a greeter, for instance, Deepin greeter at login prompt ...
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Kali Linux KDE not showing GUI for initial login [duplicate]
this is my first Linux OS, and I'm trying to get more acquainted with my environment. I've got Kali Linux KDE working well, but when I first start linux, it boots into the terminal screen for TTY1 ...
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Cannot change default display manager on Mint 19 Beta
On Linux Mint 18.3, when I used to install mdm, the command sudo apt install mdm would open a prompt such as:
and I would choose the default display manager. Running sudo dpkg-reconfigure mdm would ...
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The difference in Ubuntu 18.04 that requires nomodeset?
My laptop which has an Nvidia GeForce 310M GPU is 9 years old and it has been OK with all Ubuntu releases until now.
What is the difference between 18.04 and previous releases that causes the black (...
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Display not working for any user except root on tool vnc for Os Suselinux
I was trying to install SAP Hana Data provisioning agent for which SAP Note said that we need a non-root user who should have read/write access to /usr/sap folder and display access. So I started ...
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Linux mint 18.3 boot at black screen
After apt upgrade, I have problems with booting into the system.
Firstly, I was getting the message that Plymouth was missing and Bluetooth failed to initialize. After installing Plymouth theme I ...
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Catch-all command to restart display manager?
Is there a catch-all command to restart display managers (on any given common init system)?
I've got systemctl restart display-manager for systemd-based systems currently, but I don't know that that'...
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What is the correct procedure to replace MDM with LightDM on Linux Mint?
OS: Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon 64-bit.
I almost got a heart attack, after reboot preceding this; in an important VM:
sudo apt-get install lightdm
... I chose LightDM as the default DM ...
sudo apt-...
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Keyboard doesn't work at graphical login [closed]
After an update, my laptop keyboard doesn't work anymore when I want to login (while the touchpad does). This is true whatever the display manager used (xdm, lightdm). I can't even switch to console ...
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Will this damage my PC? GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash pci=noaer pci=nomsi"
When I tried to install my Ubuntu 16.04.2 I faced with no screen problem! and PCI_bus errors! after many searching and trying only this modifications on /etc/default/grub solved my problem:
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Is there something like Turnkey Linux configuration console out there?
Turnkey Linux comes with this nice blue background console thing that has some basic options like showing the current IP, time, etc. I find its nicer for our system admins (me too) to be greeted with ...
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Could Not Start the X-Server - Linux Mint 17.2
I have an external SSD with Linux Mint Installed onto it (so not as a live USB, but as if it were an internal SSD). I used this around 1 week ago, and it worked fine. Tried to boot into it today, and ...
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Using hardware acceleration without screen/display
I have a Linux machine (ubuntu 16.04) which I want to access using remote desktop. I am currently using Teamviewer for this.
As long as the remote machine boots with a screen plugged in, this works ...
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How to set i3 to be the default window manager?
In the Kali login, I have to select i3 in the menu in order to use i3 instead of gnome. How to set i3 as the default window manager (no need of selection?
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Display manager on multiple tty
I recently upgraded from Fedora 23 to 25, which seems to have broken my display manager configuration.
I was using lightdm and was able to switch between 3 GUIs running lightdm by just hitting ctrl+...
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Switch to dvorak layout at boot. (decryption and sddm)
System: Host: MyComputer Kernel: 4.8.14-gnu-1 x86_64 (64 bit)
Desktop: LXQt Distro: Parabola GNU/Linux-libre
There are three places where my computer wants me to use qwerty input.
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Arch Linux, "hang" on "Reached target Graphical Interface"
EDIT: I just tried gnome and gdm and it worked flawlessly. So something with the virtualbox packages and the SDDM package seems to not work.
At first this question looks like this one (Arch Linux ...
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I messed up my Ubuntu installation, how to fix it
After installing various desktop environments, just for testing purposes, I messed up my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and now,
The clock has vanished from the top menu bar
Unity tweak tool has gone
I get unmet ...
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How can I close all currently running graphical programs?
I need to manually install the proprietary graphics driver for my NVIDIA graphics card and to do that I first need to make sure that no graphical programs are running. What is the simplest way to do ...
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How to switch from CLI to GUI Ubuntu
I am currently running Ubuntu 16.04 operating system. In order to experiment, I had asked for the way to login to Ubuntu CLI mode only (i.e. the GUI version must not start at all). In response to my ...
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How to specify the display manager of a new session launched from tty?
When prompting startx from tty, the graphical display start but without any display manager but have a xterm from which my display manager have to be launched.
How can I directly launch a session ...
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X display-manager login fails, console login + startx works
I have one machine (my main desktop, as it happens) where I've been unable to login from the display manager for months. As soon as I enter my password, it looks like it's about to start my session ...
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Two monitors. Menu panel on wrong screen
I have a debian 8 jassie with LXDE. I have a two monitors one from my laptop, second is external 24". Second monitor is a above my laptop. If I plug in second monitor he was recognized correctly in
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How can we define a default configuration for xfce4-settings/display?
As in Cinnamon's display manager, I want to make last settings applied for connected display in XFCE4, but XFCE4's display manager asks for configuration (rotation, position etc.) everytime.
How can ...
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Change Default Keyboard Layout on Lubuntu 16.04
I installed Lubuntu with QWERTY, and now want to switch it to DVORAK.
The documented way to do this is to use the Keyboard Layout Handler on the panel.
This works, but only during and within a ...
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what are gnome-session and gnome-settings-daemon?
Can someone explain to me exactly what gnome-session and gnome-settings-daemon do and how they might be useful to me, as someone who doesn't use GNOME or any of its relatives as a DM (i use i3)?
I've ...
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Failed to start X server
My system is OpenSUSE Leap
I had a problem with HDD that lead to the system not booting. After fixing that and fixing the boot loader I ended up with a failed to start X server.
At boot time I got:
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"No protocol specified" when starting Xorg via lightdm, but works when started directly
To start the X server on boot, use of a display manager such as lightdm seems to be the preferred method. However, if I start X by starting the lightdm service, I get a "No protocol specified" error. ...
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Equivalent for `dm-tool switch-to-user `otheruser in different display managers
When using lightdm I can switch to another user by executing dm-tool switch-to-user. Is there a way that doesn't depend on the display manager? If not, what would be the equivalent command for the ...
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Proper way to install mdm display manager in ArchLinux
I am wishing to install mdm display manager in ArchLinux. Normally the similar gdm is used, but I want to be consistent with the Cinnamon desktop I use, instead of Gnome desktop, so I'd also like to ...
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How to recover a failed KDE4 desktop without deleting the entire ~/.kde4 directory?
This is a tale of two 64-bit Mageia 5 GNU/Linux systems equipped with 6xx/7xx nVidia video cards. Each is configured with a KDE4 desktop (task-kde4-minimal-4.14.3-2.mga5), and use a proprietary ...
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How to change the date format in the LXDM login/greeting screen (LXDE)
I found a number of resources to change the system (Archlinux 2016-03-01) date format, amongst others one to create a new format from an existing locale file.
I then modifed /etc/environment and ...
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Killing a secondary Xorg stops display manager
My computer runs on Debian Stretch. For testing GUI applications purpose, I'm using a second instance of Xorg on display :X (X != 0). After upgrading from jessie to stretch. Killing the secondary Xorg ...
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What is the difference between starting x and starting the display manager?
What is the difference between running startx and starting your display manager with sudo service (display_manager) start? Two different events happen, so I am curious as to know the difference behind-...
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Unicode fallback font
When the system displays a text, whose responsibility is to select the appropriate font for the letters?
Let's say I have the following 3 fonts installed and I open a website with letters and ...
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After updates my system won't boot into LXDE, X is running but screen stays black
The task bar tries to load, flashing white a few times but then stops and screen stays black, and mouse cursor is available.
Here are my updates:
Commit Log for Sat Oct 17 10:46:41 2015
Removed the ...
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What display manager/window manager can support multiple monitors with different dpi?
There is no permutation that I have yet found of window manager / display manager, that correctly scales windows and applications on two different monitors with two different DPIs.
I have a 40 inch ...
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Display manager mdm fails to load desktop environment
I was having abnormally long waiting times during which the DM was checking my (correct) login credentials. After mucking around with it a bit I decided to remove the mdm package and reinstall it. I ...
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Lightdm Won't Start in Test Mode With OpenRC
I have a funtoo installation and I recently did sudo emerge x11-misc/lightdm which appeared to work fine, but attempting to start lightdm in test mode with sudo lightdm --test-mode gives this:
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What to do when the desktop freezes?
I am on Linux Mint 17. I experienced an unexpected software failure.
The desktop stopped responding to anything.
As I am inexperienced, I only managed to switch to the console using Ctrl+Alt+F1 and ...
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How do I get xinputrc to work for login screen?
I have the following lines in /etc/X11/xinit/xinputrc to tame my mouse sensitivity:
xinput --set-prop 9 "Device Accel Constant Deceleration" 4.5
xinput --set-prop 9 "Device Accel Velocity Scaling" 1
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Debian not booting into GUI
My problem is, that my Debian installation shows a grey screen on start up and boots into a console, instead into gnome.
When I start X manually with startx everything starts fine, so the DE seems to ...
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KDE 5 in Debian wheezy?
I really hate the look of all the desktop environments officially supported by Debian 7. I also really really like the look of KDE Plasma 5. Unfortunately Debian seems to only support KDE 4, and it ...
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What is the purpose of having two login managers on one system ?
I read, that the first process born in user-space is called Init, it starts by itself further processes, it also possesses an incorporated login manager. So far, I could understand it, but than I read,...
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What do I need to do additionally to start X in order not to end in a black screen?
From the Xfce desktop environment in Linux Mint, I pressed Ctrl + Alt + Fn in order to get into a virtual terminal.
Then I stopped the mdm display manager with killall mdm. So far, it worked, but ...
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Start graphical user interface using startx and display manager
Can someone tell me what differents between starting graphical user interface using startx command (which xinitrc contains exec gnome-session or exec xfce4-session) and using an display manager? And ...
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Can't access virtual terminals after manually starting an X server
I'm working on a display manager. When an X server is already started, my display manager works fine and is able to log in a user. However, in order for it to be a proper display manager, it needs to ...
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How do I permanently disable a specific display in gdm?
My laptop has an unknown display always active in the background. It is called "unknown display" in the system settings on Ubuntu GNOME, and it was the same when I was using Unity. I have once ...
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Cinnamon not working on Mint 17
I installed Mint 17 on an older desktop and everything is OK, but the start menu is not being rendered correctly. It either does not appear at all when you click on it, or it appears empty (no icons). ...
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How to set 3 displays as follows: primary, mirror of primary and secondary?
The current setup of my displays is as follows:
I would like the 2nd Sony display to be a mirror of 3rd Dell display, while the 1st Samsung display should remain as separate secondary display.
When I ...