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Questions tagged [gdm3]

graphical login prompt and desktop manager under the GNOME 3 environment.

Version 3 of GDM, the GNOME Display Manager (the GUI component where you enter your name and password before logging in). Use this tag for questions that are specifically about version 3 of GDM. If unsure, use .

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Graceful shutdown in ArchLinux

I'm trying to get a graceful shutdown/reboot in ArchLinux with GNOME Shell. Now, when I ask for shut-down, it immediately shuts down without giving open programs time to gracefully close / save open files. As a result, whenever I restart Chrome (for…
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Disable GDM suspend on lock screen

I'm using Arch Linux + GNOME3 on desktop, and when the system starts or the user logs out, gdm displays the login screen for about 20 seconds and then turns off the display (although the computer is still running). Is it possible to disable this? I…
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How do I change my default session?

How do I change the default session I get when I log in? I'm on Debian jessie. I tried changing settings on gdm3, tried installing lightdm and following this but it's just not working. For more specificity, I'm trying to default to gnome-classic…
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GDM - how to enable touchpad tap-to-click

I've enabled tap-to-click in Gnome but it doesn't work on GDM. I tried running dconf-editor as root to modify the setting but to no avail. I also tried running sudo -u gdm gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad tap-to-click true but I…
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How to disable the user list on GDM3 login screen?

Environment: Distribution: Arch Linux Display Manager: GDM 3.16.x Dekstop Environment: Gnome 3.16 Question: How to disable the user list displayed on the login screen? Clarification: Wanted result: In effect, from the users perspective, the…
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PAM fingerprint login blocks password

Is there a way to make PAM run authentication modules in parallel? For all people who use PAM this may be useful. It seems that PAM runs authentication modules in sequence and blocking. What that means for people who would like to use multiple…
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Change GDM display timeout

I need to change the GDM display timeout from 10 seconds to something more forgiving. That is to say, my screen shuts off after 10 seconds in the lock screen. I am running Fedora 23 with Gnome on a Desktop PC. Note 1: I am not talking about the…
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Display hostname in GDM3 on Fedora 19 at login screen

I'm managing almost 100 lab PC's running Fedora 19. It's difficult to manage because it seems like no where that I can display the hostname at the login screen. GDM version: gdm-3.8-3.2
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How to make gdm3 start X installed in a different path (or running X from a personalized path)?

I've built the entire Xserver from git for testing proposes using the build.sh provided by freedesktop.org as the easier method to compile all modules against the git tree, and installed under the /opt/xorg path. The problem is that I can't find how…
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How do I set gdm monitor/display/screen setup to generic mirroring?

I have three displays and one TV connected to my computer. gdm (gnome display manager) somehow thinks that the main display is the TV. To circumvent the problem for all setups: How do I tell gdm to always mirror the main display to all connected…
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Debian Stretch: How do I make Wayland the default?

I am running Debian Stretch 9.1 with GNOME 3 as the desktop environment and GDM for session management. I tried GNOME on Wayland from GDM (gear icon) and it works very well. I would now like to configure an autologin to GNOME on Wayland. I am able…
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turn on numlock at login screen. GDM

GDM is turning off numlock key. I have tried following: a) installing numlockx and inserting following lines at /etc/gdm/Init/Default if [ -x /usr/bin/numlockx ]; then /usr/bin/numlockx on fi b) Using setleds +num, but it corrupts the numlock…
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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 greeter (running under user gdm). Then it was changed…
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xfce4 loses title bars on all windows

I'm running Debian Wheezy using gdm3 as window manager and xfce4 as desktop environment. Every so often, when I login, the desktop environment starts OK, but all windows are missing the title bar and are positioned at location (0,0). Usually logging…
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Why GNOME Display Manager always read .profile?

I recently switched from terminal prompt login (getty?) to GNOME Display Manager. It seems that GDM always reads .profile, regardless of user's setting of login shell (Zsh in my case). Why is that? I assume it's hardcoded in their source, but I…
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