Questions tagged [lightdm]
LightDM is a lightweight X11 display manager. It can use different greeters in the style of different desktop environments.
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Strange Grub and lightdm garbled texts
As you can see in the pictures, grub and lightdm have garbled fonts. I think it's about the refresh rate of the monitor. Monitor is 100Hz. How can I change grub refresh rates?
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How to change the session type for a specific user?
I'm running Debian on a Raspberry Pi 5. All users log into the session LXDE-pi-labwc as confgured in lightdm.conf. I would like one user to always log into the session kodi. I've changed the XSession ...
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lightdm/xorg prevents remounting read only
I have a kiosk system based on Debian 12 with some partitions readonly (namely / and /boot, while /var and /home are writable). The setup works completely fine. However, sometimes, after a system ...
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Can I automatically unlock a user's personal luks partition on login and lock on logout?
On a multi-user desktop system, having users alice and bob, each has their own encrypted partition /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 that need to be mounted to /home/alice/data and /home/bob/data respectively. /...
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Dbus issue when trying to run Wayland session
My distro is based on Slackware, therefore it doesn't have systemd, but SysVinit + elogind. I'm trying to use LightDM to initiliaze my desktop environment sessions, but I have either dbus services ...
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How do I stop my Ubuntu desktop computer from "sleeping" when nobody is logged in?
In short - I have an issue where my Ubuntu Desktop computer seems to "sleep" when no user is logged in, and I would love to prevent this. More Details - Pre-emptive apology if something I ...
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Black screen with mouse cursor after unlocking the screen after some inactivity, on an Nvidia card
I uploaded all logs here. After unlocking the PC after a period of inactivity (a few hours?), I'm often met with a black screen with nothing but a mouse cursor on it (that I can move). The only fix I ...
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Debian 12 boot fails to load lightdm and stops
Debian 12 fails to boot after last upgrades writing sth like [failed] Lightm did not load The content of /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log is as follows [+0.00s] DEBUG: Starting Light Display Manager 1.26....
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Mounting directories on demand or until logged
As from object, I want to mount some directories (with binding) at login and possibly unmount them at logout. At the beginning I tought about autofs, but it dynamically creates mount points, that's ok ...
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Failed to start Light Display Manager, stuck on black screen
I have been using Linux Mint for about a month. Today, I turned on my computer and first I got this error after the Linux Mint logo appeared. UBSAN: array-index-out.of-bounds in /var/lib/dkms/...
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Lightdm multi screen arrangement
I run XFCE on Debian with two monitors next to eachother. The default positioning of the monitors is mixed up. I.e., when the mouse leaves the left edge of the physically left monitor it isn't blocked,...
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Seamless login in EndeavorOS
I would like to achieve a smooth login process where there is no visible black screen during the transition from the login screen to my desktop, similar to the experience in Windows 10. Both Debian ...
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nvidia (proprietary) output not resuming after suspend
After suspend+resume, the display connected to my NVidia card (3050 ti) with proprietary drivers on Manjaro keeps getting 'no signal' about 95% of the times. All of the standard tricks (updating bios, ...
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lightdm: neither xdmcp nor vnc providing remote session
I want to be able to connect remotely to my daily driver (Debian 11) within my LAN from my laptop and other devices. Ssh works fine but niether Chrome nor Firefox are happy running over ssh / some ...
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Disable the 'Other' User Option From LightDM
I am currently running LightDM on my AlmaLinux 8.8 machine and I wanted to know if it's possible to remove the Other user option as shown below. I have already tried to edit the /etc/lightdm/lightdm....
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