Questions tagged [display-manager]
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4 display modes across 3 displays and 2 computers
I have a laptop and a PC and three displays. I need to switch between the computers and the displays and sometimes be working in each computer simultaneously. I have already tried a 4 by 4 by 4 KVM ...
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BSPWM not starting from the display manager
I'm using Ubuntu with Gnome, when i go to the display manager, choose bspwm and type my password then hit enter the screen freezes and bspwm doesn't launch.
Here's my bspwmrc file even though I don't ...
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Sddm greeter isn't showing after logout in arch
I'm having a problem in arch Linux, i installed kde sddm and when i try to logout i get a black screen with a cursor on it. I've enabled the sddm.service also and everything else works fine except ...
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how a user session-terminate works in linux?
I'm in arch linux with kde and sddm installed. When i logout i see black screen with a cursor on it. For some reason the sddm is not starting correctly after logout, dont know why. I wanna know what ...
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Sytemd graphical multi-session
On Linux with systemd it is possible to have multi-sessions on one seat, eg. I have reached the graphical target starting my display manager, login, and then my graphical user session is in place. I ...
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Unbind AMD GPU without restarting the display manager
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I have bought myself a thunderbolt eGPU case (Razer Core) and I want to use it with my AMD GPU (Rx480) on Linux. I use Kernel 5.0. Plugging in the eGPU while the PC is running seems to ...
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How to NOT suspend when using light-locker
I have light-locker installed.
Running light-locker& creates a screensaver. Then I can run light-locker-command -l to lock the screen.
The problem is that when I lock screen with that command, ...
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Unable to switch to greeter
I'm using LightDM 1.16.5 along with the Awesome window manager on NixOS.
After logging in, I am unable to switch users without first logging out of my current session. The command dm-tool switch-to-...
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LightDM returns immediately with /etc/X11/Xsession
I have an user defined Xsession in ~/.xinitrc. Started from console via startx everything works fine.
Now this session should be started by LightDM. For that I created /usr/share/xsessions/xsession....
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What is the difference between a Display Manager and Desktop Environment?
I know that a Window Manager just manages windows, and can basically be used with any DE. My question is what is the difference between a display manager and a desktop environment? I ask this because ...
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Lightdm not starting at boot in Ubuntu 14.04
I've been reading lots of posts about this problem regarding previous versions of Ubuntu, but they don't seem to work in my case.
At boot and shown in /var/log/boot.log the daemon /usr/sbin/lightdm, ...
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Trying to install new wm broke lightdm
I am trying to install bspwm for my debian machine, and I've been following this guide for dummies. So far, all the desktop environments and window managers that I've added on were all done through ...
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CDM display not working for users, but works as root
If I run CDM (Console Display Manager) as root, it works fine.
If I run it as any other user, CDM loads, requests a choice for WM, and then exits.
There is no readable output to stdout or stderr.
How ...
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Display manager does not start at startup
Running sudo start lightdm from the command line seems to work fine though. Neither exec xdm or xdm or sudo xdm or sudo exec xdm do though.
Things I have already tried -
selecting various options ...
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Uninstall breaks unprivileged boot-up services (MDM and audio) - Linux Mint 16rc KDE
After a wine install/uninstall audio is broken and MDM fails as a boot up service, but still works via sudo. How should I trouble shoot?
Last night I installed Wine, installed then removed mono-...
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