Questions tagged [display-manager]
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Is there a simple linux command that will tell me what my display manager is?
Is there a simple linux command that will tell me what my display manager is?
I'm using Xfce. Are different desktop environments usually affiliated with different display managers?
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Windows Managers vs Login Managers Vs Display Managers Vs Desktop Environment
I posted a question and noticed people weren't distinguishing correctly between many of these things: Windows Managers vs Login Managers Vs Display Managers Vs Desktop Environment. Can someone please clear this up, i.e. tell us the difference…
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What is LightDM and GDM
What is LightDM and GDM? In Linux operating system I heard both but I don't know about them and what is called? Where they are used? Are they related to display?
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Terminology reconciliation: Display manager vs. session manager, Windowing system vs. Window manager
I am taking the Linux Foundation's Introduction to Linux course. Some of the terminology seems to overlap or contradict, especially when I try to supplement the course material with other sources, such as TLDP and Wikipedia.
Is a "Display Manager"…
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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 be functioning.
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How to boot Debian into text mode without using GUI?
How can I boot Debian into text mode? My mouse and keyboard are working in GRUB, but when the login screen appears they don't, so I can't do anything.
Michal
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Understanding linux desktop
I use debian wheezy xfce and want to set up my desktop. But I read some settings are redundant. Hence I want to understand how everything works, but I am massively lost. Can someone please sort, complete and entitle the following list and explain me…
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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 4k monitor running about 110 dpi, plugged into a…
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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-the-scenes.
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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 only known that one of the two can be used to…
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Prevent lightdm from turning off screen when locking session
I am running Xubuntu 18.04. When I lock the session, the screen gets turned off instantly. I am using stock lightdm as display manager and lightlocker for locking the session.
From my viewpoint the following sequence of events happens.
I initiate…
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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+alt+Fn, n being the number of the tty. This started…
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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
xinput --set-prop 9 "Device Accel Adaptive…
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Mint login screen: wrong keyboard layout
After installing Mint 15 / updating to Mint 17, I'm unable to log in using the GUI login screen and German localisation with a password containing special characters. Changing the language using the language selector doesn't help.
It seems to be an…
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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 then rebooted the machine using reboot.
Is there a…
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