Questions tagged [gdm]
the GNOME display manager (GDM) is a display manager for X Windows Systems
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Gnome Kiosk Mode
I have deployed a kiosk mode system with gnome-kiosk on Ubuntu 24.
Kiosk mode in gnome limits user interaction for a self-service computer.
The session is automatically started via GDM, and when the ...
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Numlock LED turns off, GDM login screen
My NumLock LED (and LED only, not the key functionality) is off on the GDM password input screen. Sometimes, the LED is already off when waking with NumLock on. If the LED is on when waking, it turns ...
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How to change or permanently set background image(wallpaper) in openbox WM?
Hey I just installed Arch Linux in Virtualbox btw with openbox, gdm and rofi. I wanted to set a wallpaper for the background.
So, I added this line in the end of my /home/user/.bashrc file -
feh --bg-...
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Arch Linux: GDM is defaulting to X11 instead of Wayland. What's up with my configuration?
I was under the impression that my Arch Linux box was running on Wayland, given that GDM supposedly defaults to it. However, after checking XDG_SESSION_TYPE this morning, it seems that I've been on ...
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GNOME lockscreen disable Quick Settings
I don't like the idea of being able to toggle the radios or connect to a Wi-Fi network on the login/lock screen. Thus I would like to disable the "cards" of the Quick Settings menu, but ...
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Black screen after login when using gdm3
It's been two days and several attempts after since I'm trying to fix the gdm3 on my Dell with Ubuntu 22.04.3. All of a sudden one day after starting the notebook and the user's password, I get a ...
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Why all Xorg log messages are written to journal at level 4 (warning)?
All the content of Xorg.n.log can be viewed with journalctl. As Xorg is launched by GDM (if I understand it correctly), it always has the --identifier=/usr/libexec/gdm-x-session. But despite this hint ...
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Dual Monitor - gdm3 uses wrong monitor
I have a dual monitor setup for Debian and my Desktop Environment is GNOME. I set the primary screen to screen 1 in Settings > Displays and it works fine. But my Display Manager gdm3 does not ...
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Is there a way to change failed login message on Linux systems (GDM)?
On CentOS7, when a login attempt fails, a message
Sorry, that didn't work. Please try again.
is prompted. Is there a way to change this message? Also, is there a way to customize the message ...
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My KDE is using gdm, and I think it's causing errors
My system is debian 11 and recently I migrated from Gnome to KDE. I don't think I did a clean job migrating it, but all I did was installing KDE in tasksel and swapping the desktop environment.
My ...
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gdm doen't start on Debian 11
When I start Debian 11, it can't enter into GUI desktop. Everytime, I enter my name and my passwords then I enter the code:
su
systemctl start gdm
Then I can enter into the GUI desktop. How should I ...
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Remove Suspend / Restart / Power Off… menu from Gnome Shell & GDM
I need to remove Suspend / Restart / Power Off… menu from Gnome Shell & GDM.
I’ve been trying using Settings, Gnome Tweaks, Dconf Editor, but nothing found AFAIK.
Trying to enter the Polkit conf ...
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I cannot log in to any of Gnome desktops on Fedora 37, but all other users can
I am running Linux on a completely updated Fedora 37 system. I encountered a problem a few days after my latest update (note that I had logged on and off and rebooted my machine several times between ...
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Remote Desktop Solution for Ubuntu 22.04, Wayland, RDP, and session management
I've been looking for a Remote Desktop solution for Ubuntu 22.04.
'gnome-remote-desktop', Ubuntu 22.04's standard RDP solution, automatically quits when the user logs out and it does not support login ...
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How do variables exported in `/etc/profile.d` end up in the systemd user environment on Gnome?
On Gnome with Systemd, systemd user environment variables are configured using the systemd environment.d mechanism, which doesn't rely on shell scripts, but on configuration files.
In parallel, many ...
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How to get rid of the virtual onscreen keyboard during login?
After updating from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04, the login screen automatically changes to only accepting the password via clicking a virtual onscreen keyboard.
It is very inconvenient and annoying having ...
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Fedora 36 login screen no icons and no cusrsor
Login screen icons are not visible anymore and the cursor is a transparent white box. This happens only when in the GDM login screen. Icons and cursor works fine when inside Gnome DE.
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Runnig python window app on linux (Fedora) without gdm
I have a small project, the project is running python (windows application) as below.On linux Fedora without using gdm,Gdm must be disabled. Any Idea please?
What library I have to download ?
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GDM Crashed after upgrading Arch Linux
OS : Arch Linux.
This happened 3 weeks ago i updated my system sudo pacman -Syu then after reboot GDM Crashed and tried reinstalling GDM using live usb, magically worked, yesterday happened again i ...
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gdm's systemd user process triggers automount
I'm trying to set up a hard drive that's in an external enclosure, so I added the following fstab entry:
LABEL=Mothership /var/local/Mothership btrfs noauto,nofail,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.idle-...
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GDM does not start on void linux
According to void wiki, I installed these packages: xbps-install -S gnome-core gdm. I also installed dbus package and enabled it on startup. The wiki then recommended to test the service, so i ran ...
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Debian 11, Failed to start GNOME display manager
I have been using my usual Debian 11 installation then I launched a command of systemctl reboot, after reboot I have got a black screen which stayed for around 30 seconds before the grub screen ...
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How do I handle PGP issues when installing gnome
I have just finished a fresh installation of Arch Linux in the same way I have many times, and in accordance with the Arch Linux installation wiki. I am trying to install gnome and am using the ...
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how to avoid delete files that comes from gdm-session & cause of increasing used /var
from lsof we can see the following output
lsof /var | grep delete
rsyslogd 9664 root 4w REG 253,2 25589554694 67267903 /var/log/messages-20210513 (deleted)
rsyslogd 9664 root ...
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RHEL8 - cannot set the default session for root; config file resets after reboot
On my RHEL8.5 server I am trying to set the default session for root from gnome-classic to gnome.
Following Redhat's documentation (this guide is for RHEL7 but I haven't found an equivalent for RHEL8),...
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Unmet Dependencies ubuntu-desktop
I am on Ubuntu 20.04
Because of some reason I needed to reinstall Gnome, but now after purging it I can't reinstall it. I am getting unmet dependencies error.
Exact error message -
sudo apt-get ...
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gdm3 or lighdm not working (X11 won't start)
I am using Debian 9. After installing Gnome I only see my mouse cursor on my computer screen. I uninstalled Gnome and enabled X11 but it didn't work. I need to connect to the board I use via ssh and ...
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GDM lock screen after resume
I saw a really old question a but like this one but with no answer and no activity in three years.
I'm on arch linux with GDM and gnome and when I resume my laptop from suspend, the screen is on what ...
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GNOME/gdm disable reveal password button
On the gdm login screen and on the GNOME lockscreen in the password entry box there is this little password reveal button at the right side.
Since this is a toggle some classmates were able to trick ...
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Gnome (gdm) logs in and immediately locks the console. The logs indiciate "WARNING: Could not get session id for session."
Immediately after login to gdm the screen locks and we get this error in the logs:
gnome-session-binary[25582]: WARNING: Could not get session id for session. Check that logind is properly installed ...
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How to disable the default gdm login screen
I'd like my Debian 10 box with vanilla GNOME to prompt for login at a tty/text terminal instead of having the gdm GUI pop up by default. Is there a way to change some config such that it works like ...
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Not able to sleep on Ubuntu 20
Im running Ubuntu 20.0.4 with Ryzen 5 5600x.
As soon as i click suspend button the pc its suspended only for 1 second and turned up again. The monitors go off but computer never go off.
I managed to ...
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Ubuntu desktop (gnome) running as a background process
I've got this instance of Ubuntu server where after booting up gdm start a session automatically and the desktop graphical interface runs offline as a background process i.e not on the standard output ...
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Fedora 34 GUI starts up with desktop selection option
I just installed a fresh Fedora 34, and plan to use this as a home theatre. While my Fedora starts fine, the desktop starts shrunk down, as if I am supposed to pick from one of multiple desktops as ...
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Python tkinter GUI is being pushed behind GDM3 polkit password window
It seems that my Python PAM RFID solution development has come to an end 🎉 and I finally finished developing kind of working GUI solution as well.
Issue
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How to configure default DISPLAY variable on gdm for x11vnc to work (changed in CentOS 8 from CentOS 7)
Problem: GDM/KDE is defaulting to use DISPLAY :1 instead of DISPLAY :0 in CentOS 8, and I want it to use DISPLAY :0 like in CentOS 7. This is affecting x11vnc and causing more of a headache to VNC ...
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ZorinOS, based on Ubuntu 20.04, stuck on the Zorin splash screen
New to Linux. Will try to keep this concise.
After using Zorin today, I accidentally hit the logout button, and it dropped me into the tty. But before the tty became interactable, i.e, before I could ...
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How do I specify Xwayland server options in CentOS 8?
I'm using a generic CentOS 8 install. By default it uses Xwayland as its X server, and it doesn't listen on tcp.
A quick ps aux | grep Xwayland shows:
gdm 2431 0.0 0.2 1746156 65456 tty1 ...
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USB camera not working, recognized as keyboard
Plugging in a USB UVC camera is being detected, but recognized as a keyboard, on a laptop running Fedora 34.
cheese does not see this camera as an input device, only the built-in webcam.
How can I get ...
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Gnome Display Manager (gdm) runlevel 5 not working, black screen on console
I have a supermicro server that has worked fine for however long, and monthly do yum update on it and it is currently at RHEL 7.9 3.10.0-1160.15.2.el7.x86_64. It is one Nvidia K620 graphics card ...
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Fedora 33: Installing Nvidia Drivers from Nvidia
I want to preface this by saying that I understand RPM-Fusion exists and that it has a way to install Nvidia drivers.
But, I am using Nvidia's cuda repo instead because I am interested in development ...
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Edit GDM login screen (not background)
I have fingerprint authentication enabled and password disabled. Still the login screen shows the rectangle where you write the password. I doesn't affect my login since it is disabled but I wish to ...
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annoying CTRL+F# instead of CTRL+ALT+F# Virtual Terminal Switching on Fedora 33 with sway wayland and gdm
I have the annoying problem that CTRL+F# is switching to a Virtual Terminal. This should normally be done with CTRL+ALT+F# but for some reason it is also triggered by CTRL+F#.
I actually have an ...
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Tiny cursor after logout
I am using GNOME with a 4k monitor and 200% scaling and everything seems to be working fine, but after logging out and logging back in, cursor scaling seems to reset to 100%. I am attaching the photo ...
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Boot hangs at "Reached target Graphical Interface" on Arch after system update (no virtualbox)
A month or so ago my Arch system started hanging at "Reached target Graphical interface" and never launches Gnome Display Manager (GDM). I eventually found a workaround which was to simply ...
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a gdm-owned /usr/bin/gnome-shell consumes ever more resident RAM in pop!os 20.04: the process should not exist
This is pop!os 20.04 running under X.
According to this issue https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/issues/222
once upon a time gnome kept open two gnome shells, one for the user and one for the ...
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SELinux preventing write access to files
I have written a PAM module. This PAM module is loaded by processes gdm-password and gnome-screensaver (found on RHEL 6.4). The pam module wants to write some logs to a db file under user's home ...
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how to disable gdm and graphical interface on RHEL 8.2 [duplicate]
I've tried systemctl disable graphical.target and didn't work. inittab says exactly "ADDING CONFIGURATION HERE WILL HAVE NO EFFECT ON YOUR SYSTEM."
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Ubuntu, detect new display
Running Ubuntu based Os on my Laptop, I have an external HDMI display that is not detected. I tried lspci and xrandr but the display stay "disconnected".
How can I detect the display and extend my ...
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How to develop fingerprint login for Linux desktop?
I am working on developing an application so that user can login to their Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 desktop using fingerprint. I have the required driver and SDK for the Secugen fingerprint sensor ...
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