Questions tagged [lightdm]
LightDM is a lightweight X11 display manager. It can use different greeters in the style of different desktop environments.
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Nanopi / Debian - Disabling Auto Login Breaks Sound
I have the NanoPi R6C. The vendor, FriendlyElec, provide an image of Debian 11. I flash this to the eMMC. Out of the box, sound works through the USB headphones (though not through HDMI).
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Debian 12 boot fails to load lightdm and stops
Debian 12 fails to boot after last upgrades writing sth like
[failed] Lightm did not load
The content of /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log is as follows
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Starting Light Display Manager 1.26....
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Mounting directories on demand or until logged
As from object, I want to mount some directories (with binding) at login and possibly unmount them at logout.
At the beginning I tought about autofs, but it dynamically creates mount points, that's ok ...
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Failed to start Light Display Manager, stuck on black screen
I have been using Linux Mint for about a month. Today, I turned on my computer and first I got this error after the Linux Mint logo appeared.
UBSAN: array-index-out.of-bounds in /var/lib/dkms/...
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Lightdm multi screen arrangement
I run XFCE on Debian with two monitors next to eachother.
The default positioning of the monitors is mixed up. I.e., when the mouse leaves the left edge of the physically left monitor it isn't blocked,...
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Seamless login in EndeavorOS
I would like to achieve a smooth login process where there is no visible black screen during the transition from the login screen to my desktop, similar to the experience in Windows 10.
Both Debian ...
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nvidia (proprietary) output not resuming after suspend
After suspend+resume, the display connected to my NVidia card (3050 ti) with proprietary drivers on Manjaro keeps getting 'no signal' about 95% of the times. All of the standard tricks (updating bios, ...
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lightdm: neither xdmcp nor vnc providing remote session
I want to be able to connect remotely to my daily driver (Debian 11) within my LAN from my laptop and other devices. Ssh works fine but niether Chrome nor Firefox are happy running over ssh / some ...
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Disable the 'Other' User Option From LightDM
I am currently running LightDM on my AlmaLinux 8.8 machine and I wanted to know if it's possible to remove the Other user option as shown below.
I have already tried to edit the /etc/lightdm/lightdm....
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What is dbus_enable?
I am hoping someone can explain what dbus_enable is and what benefits it would bring should I include it.
Additionally I am not sure where this would be placed however I feel it may be added to the ~/....
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No display manager after Debian 12 installation on Hyper-V
I installed (graphical installation, selecting xfce) Debian 12 on Hyper-V Gen1 VM within Windows 10. When reboot Debian no login screen appears. What cause the problem that lightdm does not start? ...
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Changing the default lightdm greeter not working on Arch with XFCE
I installed two greeters:
ls -la /usr/share/xgreeters
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 187 Sep 6 2022 lightdm-gtk-greeter.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 137 May 25 04:52 lightdm-mini-greeter.desktop
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Where does lightdm store its desktop environment settings?
As you can see in the image below, on login lightdm has a certain desktop environment pre-selected, and also has the option to switch over to others.
Where in the file system is this information ...
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How to change lightdm's wallpaper per user?
I changed the display manager from sddm to lightdm.
I'm using Kubuntu 22.04, and slick-greeter as lightdm's greeter.
I remembered that when I was using xfce4 and changed the wallpaper in the xfce4's ...
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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=...
