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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Can somebody explain why I have these options in the corner?
just noticed that, after installing some mojave themes, I suddenly had a different lock screen and this cog wheel in the lower right corner...shows other distros like ubuntu which i can log in to..now ...
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How can I change the greeter to a wallpaper?
how can I get this back to normal, or to a custom wallpaper? It's lightdm but looks weird suddenly. Help please
Edit: using Elementary OS 6
https://i.stack.imgur.com/fuYv3.jpg
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Elementary os Hera only booting into tty
I hadn't updated my laptop in about 3 months, I usually just suspend it.
I finally restart it and i'm only able to boot into tty.
I know reinstalling the os would fix the issue, but I have 1TB worth ...
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can't login in graphical environment
I did a fresh new installation of Elementary OS Odin, so I created an account for me (administrator) an another for my daughter (default). I logged many times in my account and also in my daughter's ...
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how to remote desktop from windows using rdp
Trying to remote from windows to the linux box.
After entering username and password the rdp session disconnects and throws me out back to windows
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Odin: login loop after upgrade
Today after an upgrade (was already on Odin) I got login loop... I have already checked .Xauthirity file and has right permissions... From syslog I got the following when try to run startx from tty
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Nvidia-340 causes login loop on Odin final on MBP5,3
I've confirmed this behavior installing from both the final Odin .iso, and upgrading via meisenzahl's upgrade script:
With nvidia-340 installed on my MBP5,3 (with an Nvidia GeForce 9400M & a ...
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Cannot suspend and desktop disappears after logging back
When I suspend it wakes up immediately and shows the lock screen. When I log back in the desktop is black and I only see the mouse cursor so I can't do anything. I have to hold down the power button ...
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Shutdown splash not working
When shutting down Elementary 6 Odin, the splashscreen is not presented but instead it is showing the shutdown command text. This is following a fresh install from flash. On startup it is set to quiet ...
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How can I sign in with my fingerprint on Elementary OS 6 Odin?
I have a fingerprint sensor supported by libfprint. How can I use it to log in to Elementary OS?
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Welcome screen no longer appears after a recent update [closed]
a few updates back the welcome screen was updated but after this the welcome screen no longer appears (which is great as I found it annoying).
So I also performed a fresh install on another pc and the ...
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Change lang/region in Greeter
im actually living in tokyo and my system is setted to my native language (fr). But the format of day in the greeter are still in japanese like this 7月16.
Settings are only working for the session in ...
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Login screen never times out
I noticed that if I leave the computer at the login screen that it never goes blank. The login windows is always present. How do I get it to go blank after a set time?
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Reset password after Mac OS Catalina update
Thank you for this nicely formatted forum. I am now going to explain my difficulties.
I have installed Elementary OS and it was running as a virtual machine under Virtual Box. From time to time I ...
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Login screen does not time out
When I log out my login screen naver goes blank after a few minutes as do other distros. The login remains visible all the time. What do I need to configure to enable the login screen to go blank? ...
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Authentication through Active Directory
I am coming from a Windows Background, and really impressed with Linux specially elementary os and i am very confident on replacing the windows machines with elementary os.
I have figured out the ...
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Greeter doesn't update user background
I'm having a little issue with the greeter. It's supposed that the greeter shows user name and user background (wallpaper) but in my case the wallpaper is not being updated, never mind how many times ...
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Stuck on login after installing driverupdates
I tried to update drivers through the appstore and after rebooting my computer I could not get past login. I have tried these things:
Remove the .Xauthority file, and chown it.
Reinstall elementary-...
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windows key, in logon screen
experimenting with this distro, i stumbled across something odd. If you press the windows key on the logon screen, the screen rotate clockwise.
I can t find a key setting in the os that make this ...
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unable to login starting session failed returned error code 1
I dual booted my laptop to have windows 10 and elementaryos 5.1 hera. I was updating some apps from appcenter and cancelled 2 updates (i assume this is what caused the problem). I now cant login no ...
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root login from GUI
Is it possible at all to login to elementary os as root. I enabled root account by setting a password. To make root appear as one of the login accounts on the GUI login screen, what are the next ...
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elementary os not booting or login Screen not Display
When I am turning on the laptop, my screen shows the only attachment image.
And Ctrl+Alt+F1 also not working.
it that any way to rest my ELEMENTARY OS
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On Ubuntu 18.04 after update no DE login to pantheon
After a long time without problems I managed to mangle my pantheon desktop with ubuntu 18.04 after a sys update.
Symptoms:
The Pantheon DE shows up, but after entering my pw I'm getting back to login ...
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Lockscreen fails periodically - 5.1.7
I would like to report two bugs with the lockscreen on elementary OS 5.1.7:
Fresh after installation, the lockscreen did not work until I uninstalled disable-light-locker from the system. Neither the ...
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How i can bring back Elementary Greeter
I installed ubuntu-studio-setting and now i don't have anymore the elementary Login Theme Greeter but i want to have this back.
I already tried this:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall lightdm pantheon-...
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Freeze on Login-Screen
all quick question about the login screen. I get a short freeze after boot (about 5 seconds). After boot login-screen background is gray, then it turns black and everything freeze, after that it turn ...
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System doesn't go to sleep but shows login/lock screen
I have installed Elementary OS Hera on Macbook Air from 2010.
It works quite nice but one of the issues I noticed lately is that it doesn't go to sleep but just locks the screen and displays login ...
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Can't access session, it restart
When Im at login menu to enter my password session, it doesnt works. Yep, it go black screen and still in that login page.
If I write a wrong password, its show a red rectangle, as often in every form....
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Can't log in to elementary
I reinstalled elementary after an episode of black screens. It worked for a couple of days. Then one day it asks me to insert boot device... I ended up reinstalling elementary again. Now after ...
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Unable to login after update
This morning I have finished updating my Elementary OS. But after that, I cannot log in to my elementary OS, it says, "Session returned error code 1". I've try to install newest VGA driver ...
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Unable to log in after update Elementary OS
This morning I update My Elementary OS, but after update has finished, I can not log in to my Elementary OS, it says, "session returned error code 1"
I've try to install the newest graphic ...
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Possible to show current user if desktop is locked by this user?
using elementary OS 5.1.7 Hera with LDAP login the current behaviour is: When I lock my screen using Cmd+L the lock screen shows an empty login mask. I would like to see the user name in the according ...
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How to execute sudo commands after login?
I would like to execute a command which requires sudo privileges. Specifically, I want to set my CPU frequency to a performance governor using the following script.
sudo cpufreq-set -g performance
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Can't login as a second user when nvidia-drivers are enabled in elementaryOS 5 using lightdm
In elementary OS 5
Distributor ID: elementary
Description: elementary OS 5.1.7 Hera
Release: 5.1.7
when nvidia-340 driver is enabled, after an user has logged in to the graphical environment, ...
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Can't login - hard disk is full due to massive log files
I am running Elementary OS (5.1.6 Hera) on my laptop and everything was running fine. And then one day, I just couldn't log in. Entering the password just refreshed the screen and showed the interface ...
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How to enable manual login?
I would like to login as root, but I cannot find a way to enable manual login on Elementary OS.
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Elementaryos Hera (5,1) how to disable tablet mode in login screen
Recently I installed elementaryos Hera to my dell inspiron 5378 which is a 2 in 1 laptop. Whenever I unlock my pc, my pc is in tablet mode in most of the time which disables the keyboard and sometimes ...
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How do i replace the grey background in 5.1.5 Hera with a specific wallpaper? [duplicate]
Tried everything listed for freya and other older distros.
Also tried editing the /usr/etc/ligthdm/io.elementary.greeter.conf file but nothing changed. Don't know if it's a bug or something. Isn't ...
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How can I hide a user from the Welcome Screen?
I recently installed virt-manager. It created a user – Libvirt Qemu (libvirt-qemu) – and that user shows on the Welcome Screen.
I don't want that user to show up on the Welcome Screen. How can I ...
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Can't login, recurring password prompt possibly due to filesystem full
NOOB alert
I have been using elementary os for a couple of months without issue. I noticed a couple of days ago a low file space alert. So I increased my root partition from 12 GB to 26 GB which ...
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Mouse and keyboard unresponsive on login screen; cannot switch to tty
So out of the blue my elementaryOS 5.1 has stopped responding on the login screen. Whereas yesterday everything worked perfectly fine, today I get stuck because both mouse and keyboard stop working ...
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unable to login using standard user from GUI in elementary 5.1.3 hera
From the GUI, I can login with admin account. I cannot login with standard user account. The model does a little shake and cursor refocuses in password textbox. I have tried resetting password in case ...
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Freeze on login screen
hope you are doing well.
Elementay os just make to login screen where mouse and keyboard doesn't work but the text area for the password is flashing and after some second it stop, so I'm guessing it ...
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Audio volume lowered after lock screen
I want to report a very weird thing I've noted on my laptop.
Basically, I set the volume to, let's say, max level because I'm watching a movie. Then I pause the movie, and get away from the pc for ...
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DVI not working on lock window or terminal
I have a Asus monitor connected to my desktop computer. The screen resolution is 1920 x 1080 and it's connected with a DVI cable.
Everything works fine. When a power on the computer, I can see the ...
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Keyboard not working in login screen
Recently I installed Elementary OS Hera on my Dell XPS 9570 and it seemed to be working perfectly fine until I ran into this problem: my keyboard is not responding in Greeter and I cannot login into ...
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Elementary OS 5.1 Hera (based Ubuntu 18.04) automatic logout session occasionally
occasionally my pc with elementary os 5.1 (based on Ubuntu 18.04) makes automatic logout session. This problem comes up, after minutes, when I change virtual desktop (ex. clicking on telegram notify ...
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[Solved]Sometimes lightdm crash and restart with no indication
Recently when I work with my laptop installed with elementary os，there's no indication the desktop crashed and lightdm restarted. This situation happens several times within days and let me worry ...
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Display resolution setup
I'm trying to setup my display at 2560x1440 @60Hz. I can use xrandr and it all works.
I've created a script in /usr/local/bin to do this on startup but cannot get it to run prior to login screen ...
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Elementary os login issue
I installed elementary os recently, I am new to Linux .I don't know what exactly it works, but by the help of YouTube videos I installed and dual booted Linux(elementary os) on my dell laptop.I loved ...
