Questions tagged [greeter]
Greeter is the operating system's lock/login screen. It is handled by the LightDM display manager and known as "Pantheon Greeter" in elementary OS, though other greeters are available.
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How to come back to oldder pantheon greeter on my elementaryOS Juno
i upgraded my system this morning and i found with the surprise that the pantheon-greeter oldder has been updated in the oficial Juno version for the new style for lock screen. This is awesome, but ...
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Elementary os JUNO - touch screen - orientation on greeter
I have a tablet with touchscreen.
Everything works OK on the desktop for landscape and portrait ( screen rotation and touch rotation ).
But on the login screen ( greeter )the screen rotation is OK ...
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Lock-screen rotated 90 deg
When i am on the elementary OS login or lock screen. the screen rotates 90 degrees to the left. I have a touchscreen laptop and when i first run elementary the whole scree was rotated 90 degrees but i ...
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Does the lock/login screen normally look like this? [duplicate]
I'm pretty sure when I first installed Elementary the lock/login screen was the same as the default wallpaper but now it seems to be a black/grey screen with just the small user credentials window ...
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Login screen showing weird
Well this morning my login screen was showing normal, but after a few hours working on my computer, I suspended and try to login ALL functions are good, just the display is weird, idk if some way I ...
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Brightness falls back after login until I refresh it
Whenever my HP laptop with Elementary OS 5 Juno goes into suspend, either due to it being left alone for a while or closing the lid, when I come back and log in, the screen brightness is dimmed to ...
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New Login Screen (greeter) in Juno, grey Background [duplicate]
After Update, a New Login Screen (no Backgroundpicture)
on Restart Machine, Login (Userwindow) is Black
on Logout (Userwindow Desktop Wallpaper Thumbnail is cracked)
Note: Wallpaper / Monitor is 21:9 ...
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greeter does not accept my password any more
Juno 5.0 here . suddenly I cannot login with my password.
CTRL+ALT+F1 I could login with my password ok. Command startx could not open the xserver.
result showed that x server is broken
Did a dpkg-...
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Elementary won't resume after sleep
When I lock my desktop PC or let it sleep it often won't resume after waking.
Sometimes the screen just flickers and sometimes I get a underscore (_) on the screen while it does nothing.
I'm on the ...
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Once locked, screen stays black and cannot be unlocked on Juno
The screen stays black when trying to click or press keys on the login-screen.
It doesn't show the greeter to enter password.
But if I try to enter the password and press Enter, it unlocks. But all ...
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Pantheon DE missing from lightdm after ubuntu update
My setup is the pantheon DE (and a it's apps like files and terminal etc) installed on top of ubuntu 18.04. I've had this setup for about 6 ~ 7 months with no issues.
After a routine system update ...
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Black screen flickering on boot
I had the OS for a few months now. There was an issue couple of months ago where the OS will drop to (initramfs) which I fixed with a command that I found in the ubuntu forum.
Worked well for a while ...
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Help with small annying bugs
Moved to Elementary from Pop_!OS and I love the design and thought put into this OS. It's a real art both in code and in design, thank you eOS team:).
I'm using a 2018 Razer blade 15 and I do ...
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Greeter Resolution on Juno
Has anyone managed to change the greeter resolution? Found solutions here involving lightdm configs but it was from 2015 and when i tried it didn't really change.
My session resolution is 1680*900 but ...
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False loop, on login screen elementary OS Juno
I got some trouble with version 5.1 of Elementary OS JUNO. Since many days my login screen became completly mad and won't display the desktop to me. When I'm login in the screen turn it black and come ...
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Sleep and wake up doesn't work as expected
I am on Elementary OS Juno. When I close the lid of my laptop the expected behavior is the machine goes to sleep immediately. But this doesn't happen. But a second close manages to put the computer to ...
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Lightdm lock screen broken
I have an issue with my lock screen. I was playing around with themes and somehow I can't get it to work as it should be by default. When I am booting it shows just the cursor and a black screen. I ...
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Unable to lock screen in elementary OS Juno
I am unable to lock my desktop in Elementary OS, juno. I had earlier installed GNOME desktop and when I tried to remove it, I was left with no desktop environment.
I then installed xfce desktop ...
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Prevent login loop
I recently faced the famous login loop in ubuntu 18 and I tried everything to fix it yet I was not able to do so, since i was just getting started with ubuntu and i had nothing on it I decided to ...
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Login screen items misplaced
I installed elementaryOS 2 days ago and everything works fine.
The only issue I was not able to resolve:
The time displayed on the login screen is cut off and the items seem to be misplaced ...
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Greeter Font and Session Chooser
On Juno is there a way to change the Pantheon-greeter font? I tried various things in /etc/lightdm/* and /usr/share/lightdm/* but nothing seemed to affect the font. gsettings didn't find anything ...
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Why is my lockscreen in French?
For some reason my lockscreen/sign in screen has changed the clock/calendar format to French and I am unable to find any settings for it. The desktop is in English and the clock and calendar are in ...
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Can you access the terminal log in without using ctrl-alt-F1?
I am having a login issue on elementary 5.0 JUNO and the ctrl button on my keyboard is broken. Is there any other way around this?
I need the ability to delete /run/nologon after my computer has ...
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Lightdm greeter
How do I fix this?
OS: elementary OS 5.0 Juno x86_64
CPU: Intel i7-7700 (8) @ 4.200GHz
Memory: 3219MiB / 16005MiB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
GPU Driver: NVIDIA 418.56
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Computer won't load desktop after logging in?
My computer won't login completely past a black screen with mouse pointer after login. Everything was fine until I updated now I'm missing the clock/calendar from the bar, programs suddenly missing ...
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Desktop Fails to Load After Login
I'm using the latest Elementary OS, so 5.0 x64. I installed it, everything was looking great and the login screen shows up. I can click the wifi, power, everything. But once I login then it just shows ...
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Cannot login from TTY: Auto \r when TTY login
When I use Linux Console (tty1-6) to login, I type my username then press Enter, then it auto return. It make me cannot login from tty.
The video on Vimeo
I have check the log from journalctl | grep ...
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How to delete desktop pictures in usr/share/backgrounds?
I installed xfdesktop and my login screen and background were changed to the green screen and the mouse :(
I managed to change the background back to my selection, but the login screen has not ...
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Bad magic number in superblock, I can´t log in
I have dual boot. I´ve something badly managed in instalation with flags, so when I started into Windows, elementary OS wasn´t possible to start.
I´ve booted to LIVE system and in Gparted got ´´check´´...
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Unable to login as standard user
I added a standard user, however, I'm unable to login. after inserting password, it takes me back to login screen.
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Can't type in my password when waking laptop from sleep mode
When I put my Vaio E Series laptop into sleep mode and wake it up, I can move my mouse and click things, but can't type my password with my keyboard at the login screen. I can click the submit ...
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Yubikey tutorial for elementaryOS
Does anyone know of a good tutorial for configuring elementaryOS with Yubikeys? I just bought a 2-pack of the Yubikey 5 NFC and would like to set up stuff like full disk encryption, lightdm login and ...
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Can't login, in a Login loop
I get the normal elementary OS greeter, I login (it doesn't give a password error) but then I'm returned to the greeter again.
This also happened to me earlier this month, then I ended up reinstalling....
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Login twice when HDMI is plugged in
When I have my monitor connected by HDMI and I start the system, the login screen appears normally. I log in and the wallpaper shows up, but anything else. After a few seconds (like 5 or 10 seconds) ...
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How to add a script to start up sequence so that it applies before the actual login screen?
So I have this script that changes the resolution of on of my monitors that works and that I was able to run on login by adding it in settings»Applications»Startup. The only problem is that I need it ...
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How to unlock without the mouse? [closed]
When I try to unlock, I'm unable to focus the password input without clicking the mouse, is there a way around this so I can focus the input without a mouse? There doesn't appear to be any setting for ...
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Why do I not see a login option for the guest at the login screen?
I have just installed Elementary OS 5 in a virtual machine.
Since I am a fan of guest user login I checked the user account settings and noticed that guest login is enabled by default. However, when ...
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Juno keeps booting into a blank screen
I've got an new installation of Juno, but since I installed the proprietary nvidia driver 396, Juno goes black/blank after the initial splash screen. Loki functioned fine.
The odd thing is, that ...
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Lock screen not working
When i use the shortcut keys Win+L, click the Lock option in wingpanel-session menu, or when i suspend, lock doesn't work.
dm-tool lock works.
light-locker-command --lock shows:
Received error ...
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how to make password input box get focus in login screen (juno) [closed]
in juno have to mouse click in password input box (fresh OS setup), in Loki the box get focus automatically after OS start.
is there any option I can use? thanks.
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elementary OS 5.0 Juno doesn't start after sleep
I have installed elementary OS 5.0 Juno on my laptop and after a while working , when I actually leave it in sleep mode , it doesn't starts normally. The only way I could turn on was to shut down ( ...
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Juno: how to remove am/pm indication from login screen?
Timezone Europe/Berlin, time format 24h, system language German.
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Login loop screen problem
After write my password the screens goes and give a line of code not readable for one second then goes back to login screen. Any help ? I have almost all my work there is an a partition on my surface ...
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light-locker: strange beheavior when trying to unlock the screen/open the lid
loki has light-locker
I have setup that when I close the lid of the notebook the screen locks (not suspends)
when I close it and then after a while open it, I have to wait a few seconds to get rid of ...
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Long boot after sing in
I enter password. It's ok.
I see empty desktop with only background picture.
I wait for about 1-2 minutes and only after it the dock line and high line with time and applications become visible and ...
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Automatic Login on Loki will not work
I've installed Loki and toggled the "Log in Automatically" switch on. But when I restart the system, it still shows the standard log in screen and asks for the password. When I go back to User ...
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Unable to interact with lockscreen after installing bumble bee
I recently installed bumblebee to set my Nvidia gpu as default for steam.
After reboot the lock screen or any display never came up, so I booted into recovery and purged bumblebee,
Upon next reboot, ...
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elementaryOS freezes after login — new razer blade stealth 13.3"
I've been having quite the issue with getting 0.4.1 loki running on my razer.
The log in screen loads just fine, but after I input my password I see a fizz of static and the machine freezes. I have ...
