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LightDM is a lightweight X11 display manager. It can use different greeters in the style of different desktop environments.

LightDM is a display manager for the Xorg server.

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How to disable X server autostart in Debian Jessie?

I have a remote machine running Debian 8 (Jessie) with lightdm installed. I want it to start in no-GUI mode, but I don't want to remove all X-related stuff to still be able to run it though SSH with the -X parameter. So how to disable X server…
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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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When I log in, it hangs until crng init done

When I log in with LightDM on my laptop running Debian Unstable, it recently started to hang for around 2 minutes until journalctl shows the message kernel: random: crng init done. When I press random keys on my keyboard while it hangs, it logs in…
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auto login on xfce in jessie

I have started running Jessie (Debian 8) with a LightDM/Xfce desktop on my HTPC after it grinding to a near-halt on W7. One of the things that I cannot get past is having to type the password -- not a normal thing to do for watching TV. Following…
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~/.xinitrc not being run

I am not able to run my ~/.xinitrc (~/.xsession) scripts when logging into my computer. I'm using Xubuntu 12.10 with vanilla lightgm as the login manager. Both these files have the right permission (executable). I have in my ~/.xinitrc, the…
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Locking the screen via CLI?

Is there any way that I can lock the screen CLI-style? I'm trying to target as many desktop managers as possible (mostly LightDM, but GDM, KDM, SLiM, XScreensaver, etc. would be great too), but I can only dig things up for GDM and XScreensaver. For…
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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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Configure Lightdm (GTK) for last saved or a default user and focus on password?

I've looked at the man pages and the configuration files but found nothing (but maybe I'm missing something). I see only many options for autologin. From a few googles I've read that the KDE version does work this way, but I would like to continue…
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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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Can't export environment variables on X session start

My setup is: Debian testing (stretch), up to date LightDM with autologin enabled Awesome window manager bash, in ROXTerm or XTerm I don't seem to be able to set own environment variables and get it sourced at X session startup. Here's what I…
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Change the keyboard layout in LightDM

I installed LightDM on an Arch Linux system (using pacman) and it runs fine, except, that if I try to type a special character (like "@", "$", ...) in the user or password field it doesn't do anything. I'm using the gtk3 greeter, but it doesn't work…
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Set lightdm user picture

How can I set user pictures on Debian with lightdm? Xfce does not seem to have a GUI facility for user management at all. I have tried installing gnome-system tools that contains user management dialog (users-admin) but I can't find where to set…
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Autostart all LightDM seats and show one as default

I configured a media-center server running Debian with LightDM, Leapcast and Plex. What I want to accomplish is the following. There should be three LightDM seats, one default seat on which I can login; one seat that runs Leapcast (Chromecast…
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Wrong role and type on login

I'm on an Ubuntu 14.04 derivative, elementary OS Freya. I have installed and configured SELinux using the selinux-policy-default package, which contains a lot of modules. I've also added my user to the staff_u SELinux user: $ sudo semanage login…
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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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