the GNOME display manager (GDM) is a display manager for X Windows Systems
Questions tagged [gdm]
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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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Correctly setting environment
I'm using zsh and gdm to run gnome. Some time ago I discovered that variables are not set correctly. For example LANG/LC_ALL are incorrect ("" instead of en_GB.UTF-8).
I split the .zshrc into .zshrc and .profile. In the latter I set the environment…
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How do I configure the GNOME gdm login screen?
I recently installed Arch Linux and have it mostly set up. With many other Linux distributions, there is a tool that is used to configure the look and feel of the login screen. I would like to change the wallpaper used, the date/time format from…
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Mouse and keyboard not working in Ubuntu 14.04
I updated my Ubuntu Linux to 14.04 and now the mouse and keyboard don't work in the login screen. I tried re-installing grub from a Live USB, but it's still not working. I would really appreciate your help.
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How to execute command before user login on linux
That's a question I've seen several time for several Linux flavours, so let's try to be exhaustive.
What is the method to execute script/command/program before and after user login into its desktop session ?
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How to find out the current (active) XServer DISPLAY number?
I'm using Arch Linux and things are not so easy when you try to discover the current Xorg DISPLAY (not through the env variable).
Here is a working example:
$ cat /sys/class/tty/tty0/active
tty2
who | awk -v term="tty2" '/\(:/ $0 ~ term {…
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Dual monitors on dual video cards on Ubuntu
I have been trying this to no avail. I am new to Linux, so a step by step explanation would be greatly appreciated. I have two NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT video cards. I want a monitor to run on each card, so Twinview cannot be used because my…
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System-wide power management policy on debian-based distros?
I would like to put idle machines in our lab (running Mint Debian edition) on standby after a timeout. I have tried pm-suspend and it puts the machines on standby and wakes up fine.
Does anybody know how to set a system-wide power policy that will…
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How do you set up the environment for es?
I've been playing with es the last couple of days, and it (like rc) has the quirk/feature that it only runs its startup script (.esrc) on login. The usual way to run code in each interactive session is to put that code in the %prompt function.
Of…
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OEL6 Slow boot && Millions of socket files in /tmp/orbit-gdm
Background on question
Lately I've been having some trouble with slow booting on the servers, sometimes over 2 hours to boot stuck on "Enabling Local Filesystem Quotas:"
After searching I managed to narrow it down to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit…
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What is the proper encoding name to use in locale for UTF-8?
Just wondering here as I have on this CentOS 7 system:
$ locale -a
en_US.utf8
and yet:
$ localectl
System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
To add to that, the preferred name according to X11 (/usr/share/X11/locale/locale.dir) is:
$ grep…
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How to execute a script on gdm login automatically for all users?
What file should I modify to execute some instructions when any user logs in through gdm?
I tried /etc/bashrc but that is executed ony when starting bash (and each time an xterm is open). I'd like to execute something only once when the user logs…
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Oh no! Something went wrong! While starting the system after installing Kali Linux
I am trying to install a virtual machine running Kali (Formerly backtrack) 1.0.7 In 64 bit. My host machine is a 64 bit MacBook pro running 10.7.5. I am using Oracle VirtualBox version 4.3.12. The install goes perfectly, but after installing it, I…
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gdm greeter configuration: Exclude all *except* for one specific user
I have Googled this one and tried so many combinations, with no success.
I need the GDM login greeter to display one and only one username. In effect, what I need is something like this in…
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How can I disable the user list login screen in Gnome 3 on Fedora 16 or 17?
Our login screen requirements include a warning / disclaimer and a basic login, showing just a username and password field. Sadly, Gnome 3 seems to be ignoring the org.gnome.login-screen.disable-user-list checkbox presented by dconf-editor.
Can you…
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