display manager for lxde
lxdm is a lightweight display manager for LXDE . It is the GUI component where you put your name and password if you want to login to your local system if you are running in GUI (runlevel 5) mode.
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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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xdg-open on debian 9 fails to open browser
I decided to try lxdm (was using fluxbox and xfce), and discovered that for many programs the url handler was failing, producing this error message;
Quite strange as you can see, it's prepending the user directory to the url.
The example here is…
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Make X11 source my ~/.Xkbmap
I want to remap capslock to ctrl, I found the answer online:
setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps
I tried in shell, it works. Now I want to persist it, I found some online post says that I need to create ~/.Xkbmap file in my home directory.
I followed…
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Can I change the GUI TTY?
I installed Arch Linux on my friend's PC. He is used to the TTY 7 for running the graphical stuff on his system. But on Arch TTY 1 is for starting LXDM.
How can I move the graphical TTY from 1 to 7 or to something like 6?
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Is there a way to remove the GalliumOS greeter/opening graphics?
Basically, I'd really love to be able to just have the command line be the way I boot into Gallium, but the main way I tried was a little wonky. I deleted LXDM entirely, which not only didn't delete the little GalliumOS animation at the beginning…
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Is there a display manager that allows setup of wifi connection before logging in?
I'm working on a pam_ldap solution for laptop users, but of course it won't work unless wifi is connected. I won't know ahead of time what wifi network users will be on.
I want to emulate how chromebooks work, where you can connect to wifi before…
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X doesn't start automatically, startx works fine
I've been using lxdm for a long time, but today after upgrading manjaro, the x doesn't started automatically.
the journalctl -u lxdm output:
-- Reboot --
Dec 22 10:16:35 localhost systemd[1]: Started LXDE Display Manager.
the systemctl status lxdm…
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