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Questions tagged [lightdm-gtk-greeter]

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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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XFCE/LightDM: Tearing-Fix vs. No Desktop After Logging in

I have Manjaro/XFCE/LightDM and a GeForce GT 710 and I followed this guide to get rid of tearing. I added those three lines to my X-configuration. After I log in in the greeter the screen only shows the background image and the mouse cursor. After I…
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Cannot login into XFCE screen blink and return back to login screen

Recently a kernel upgrade to 4.19.0-5amd64 broke my desktop environment and produced other problems, some of them I already asked here - Unmet broken dependencies debian and radeon failed vce resume after upgrade to newest Linux kernel. Those are…
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How to configure a useable screen locker in Awesome+LightDM+NixOS?

I've been using Awesome+LightDM with the GTK greeter on Arch Linux for some years, and I'm in the process of moving to NixOS. One issue with this has been the screen locker. I've mapped Windows-l to light-locker-command --lock. When activating that…
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Lightdm fails to start xsession

I switched from xfce4 to i3 a while ago. The first go through, everything worked fine. I then had to reinstall i3 for some reason, and I can no longer enter i3 through lightdm-gtk-greeter. I have to drop into tty2 and manually startx. The greeter…
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How to switch lightdm-gtk-greeter to use wayland only? (x11 not installed)

I'm on a Fedora Server 37 iso, so no DM/DE is pre-installed. Install wayland, lightdm, and lightdm-gtk-greeter. Edit lightdm's config to use lightdm-gtk-greeter (Line 102) change greeter-session=example-gtk-gnome to…
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How to change cursor size in LightDM+GTK

I am using the GTK greeter for LightDM but the cursor looks very tiny on my laptop's 1080 display. I have already set the DPI setting and some text looks big, but the center input is still small and the cursor remains small, too. I followed some…
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Cinnamon not detecting nvidia package drivers arch

I have just come from Ubuntu so getting used to Arch at the moment. I have installed the cinnamon DE and lightdm. However whenever I boot into cinnamon I get a dialog telling me to check my drivers, that I am running in software mode. I have the…
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Why language change in lightdm-gtk-greeter is taken into account on second login?

I am using lightdm with Xfce and when I change language in the greater and login Xfce uses old setting. However, after logout and another login language is properly changed and Xfce uses intended language. It looks like there is one login lag. How…
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Arch Linux windows managers and greeters

So I've messed my windows managers, xinitrc and greeters when I type startx it shows dozens of errors so can someone please tell me how to list what window-managers and login-sessions/greeters I've installed (so that I can Remove and freshly…
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Deepin White screen

I installed deepin on Arch (fresh install) and it just isn't working, I can't log in, when I start the lightdm.service, it just shows blank white screen. I haven't enable the service yet. I was just checking if it worked and its not working.
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Xubuntu session doesn't assign groups, logout brings me back to desktop

The system boots up normally, and I log in. I open an xterm and this happens: $ groups rphelps $ su rphelps Password: $ groups rphelps adm cdrom sudo dip www-data plugdev lpadmin sambashare kismet docker If I log in via SSH, my groups are set…
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