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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Unable to login after 5.1 update
Today I've successful update my Elementary 5.0 system to 5.1.
After reboot I see brand new login screen, type my password and got login screen again.
I already tried to set runlevel from 5 to 3 and ...
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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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eOS 6: Greeter looping and doesn't allow me to login after recent update
I have been using elementary OS 6 since it got released without many issues.
I updated the system through the app center yesterday, and was prompted to reboot.
After rebooting, the greeter goes into 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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Elementary 5.1 Hera. Unable to login with standard user account
After I created a standard user account, unable to login with that user account.
My Admin account has no problem logging in.
any suggestion?
thank you.
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Empty desktop after login
It's pretty self-explanatory, I have installed elementary alongside windows 10 on my Asus Zenbook ux580ge and after logging in I get an empty desktop with just the background image and the cursor (...
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getting NumLock to be on by default on start login screen (SOLVED)
I installed elementaryos-0.4.1-stable.20170517.iso several times on my intel/nvidia laptop the first time i did the install i could enter numbers on my numpad. After doing a clean install, now on boot ...
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Can not unlock screen in Loki
After a fresh install and both upgrade and dist-upgrade of Elementary OS Loki I try to lock and then unlock my laptop.
After the screen is locked, when trying to unlock, screen turns to black and ...
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Pantheon greeter configuration failed
Here is my /etc/lightdm/pantheon-greeter.conf:
[greeter]
xft-dpi=200
onscreen-keyboard=true
keyboard=onboard
indicators=~language;~a11y;~power
No language or a11y indicators, no HiDPI or onboard ...
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How to change login screen font?
My system language is Arabic and I changed the system default font, but the date & time font which appear on the loging screen didn't change and still the same.
I'm wondering if there is a way to ...
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Booting up takes longer than it should with a cursor on a black screen
systemd-analyze outputs the following:
Startup finished in 3.917s (firmware) + 2.835s (loader) + 2.592s (kernel) + 2.192s (userspace) = 11.538s
graphical.target reached after 2.187s in userspace
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How to make lightdm more stable on boot?
I'm really enjoying ElementaryOS Odin so far; my only major complaint is that lightdm is quite unstable on boot.
Specifically on probably 75% of hard boots I do, it either fails to initialise or ...
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Elementary OS 6 - The login screen goes missing
After upgrading the Kernel to 5.11.0-37-generic, I cannot access the Elementary OS login screen whenever restarted.
I will need to reboot the PC a couple of times before accessing the Elementary OS ...
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Problem logging in with cached credentials
I've been trying to use cached credentials to be able to log into an offline laptop but haven't been able to get it to work.
I've installed pam_ccreds and it seems to be caching the passwords without ...
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Can somebody explain why I have these options in the corner?
After installing some mojave themes, I now have a different lock screen and a cog wheel in the lower right corner:
It shows other distros like Ubuntu, which I can log in to. My question is: why is ...
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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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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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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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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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[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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Keyboard unresponsive on login
I recently did a fresh installation of Hera 5.1, and since then my laptop keyboard is unresponsive on the greeter login screen. The touchpad and wireless mouse both work, but I can't type in my ...
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eOS on chromebook booting to black screen
I have recently installed elementary on my Acer Chromebook 11, but now whenever i boot it up it, it goes through the boot menu, it just goes to a black screen (the screen is turned on just displaying ...
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Pantheon greeter disappears when I mistype my password
No chance for a second try?
I've read (now) that a delay is default for security reasons. Does this include removing the greeter completely, leaving a black screen? Is this the intended behavior when ...
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Lockscreen Resolution issue Juno
I'm running Juno with dual monitor and Nvidia gtx card. Every time I lock pc it lowers the resolution(I would say 1024x from 1920x) for lock screen but when I login from the boot it showing correct ...
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Maximize with multiple displays
When I try to maximize a window on any screen other than my primary, while the screen arrangement is anything other than Left<>Right edge aligned, windows only maximize to half screen.
see screen ...
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Elementary OS keeps on booting into a disabled administrator account
In order to better be able to administer my workstation which is used by the entire household I have set up one administrator account and took away administrator privileges for all the others. However ...
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How to get a macos theme for the login?
I have been trying to make my computer look like MacOS Mojave and this is what I have so far:
I have everything as I want it except I wanted to know if there was a more Mac-esque wingpanel theme and ...
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Firefox crashes Gnome Session
Firefox crashes when unlocking a locked session. This in itself is a Firefox issue.
But the problem is that this crash cascades and crashes a gnome session, returning me to the login screen.
I can ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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DBus Signal for Session Lock/Unlock?
I'm currently on elementary OS Freya (Ubuntu 16.04 base). I'd like to run a script when the session is locked and when it is unlocked.
I have asked a similar question here for Ubuntu: https://unix....
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onscreen keyboard on login
Please tell me there is a way to enable onscreen keyboard during login? It used to be in Freya but Loki has many basic things either hidden or just impossible to do anymore?
Please how can I enable ...
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How to make the onboard virtual keyboard displayed on greeter page (lockscreen)
Have recently installed Elementary (Loki version) on my Chuwi H13 computer. Have activated the onboard virtual keyboard to "show when needed" and most of the time when I'm logged in and would like to ...
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greeter stuck after adding new user
Installed Loki over the weekend; first Linux install here at home in a decade. After adding a "user" profile (in addition to my "admin" user), I find I'm stuck logging in under my "user" profile at ...
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Suspension of system results in unresponsive lockscreen
As the title says, the system will randomly "lock me out" of my laptop if it goes to sleep by itself. The lockscreen won't allow me to click and input my password again, which forces me to do a full ...
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Login screen not readable
I'm running eOS Loki on a Dell XPS 13 with a HiDPI/QHD screen and a external QHD monitor. The login screen is OK on the laptop but on the external monitor all the colors on the login screen are ...
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How can I solve the blank screen after installing Elementary OS Loki 4
I installed elementary Loki as a fresh install on a new hard-drive. (Note I had it on my old drive.)
The install goes perfectly but after installing any software or updating the system when I restart ...
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Login screen fonts look weird
My login screen looks this ugly and I do not know how to fix it.
Yet, when I execute Pantheon-Greeter in terminal looks fine. Tried to reinstall lightdm and pantheon-greeter but did not work
Any ...
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Infinite log in loop
I guess my elementary OS system is crash. =( After boot up, log in page background is blank. After key in password, it is a infinite loop of log in page, unable to log into desktop. Any help please? ...
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(Correct) password not working
My (correct) password no longer works at login screen. At the login screen the password field accepts my password but does not allow me to log in. I just get the usual "field-shake" response and a ...
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Login to administrator gui fails
I have an administrator account and user account.
My user account GUI works fine, but when I login to my administrator account the password is accepted and the screen goes to black as if it's logging ...
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Resolution Issues & Non Responsive Computer After Logging In From Locked OS
Title says it all, my computer goes to sleep like normal, opens a crisp login screen. When I log in, pantheon goes to the lowest resolution. I have control of the cursor, but nothing responds to a ...
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