Questions tagged [gdm]
the GNOME display manager (GDM) is a display manager for X Windows Systems
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How to change or permanently set background image(wallpaper) in openbox WM?
Hey I just installed Arch Linux in Virtualbox btw with openbox, gdm and rofi. I wanted to set a wallpaper for the background.
So, I added this line in the end of my /home/user/.bashrc file -
feh --bg-...
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Arch Linux: GDM is defaulting to X11 instead of Wayland. What's up with my configuration?
I was under the impression that my Arch Linux box was running on Wayland, given that GDM supposedly defaults to it. However, after checking XDG_SESSION_TYPE this morning, it seems that I've been on ...
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GNOME lockscreen disable Quick Settings
I don't like the idea of being able to toggle the radios or connect to a Wi-Fi network on the login/lock screen. Thus I would like to disable the "cards" of the Quick Settings menu, but ...
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Black screen after login when using gdm3
It's been two days and several attempts after since I'm trying to fix the gdm3 on my Dell with Ubuntu 22.04.3. All of a sudden one day after starting the notebook and the user's password, I get a ...
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Connecting via VCXSRV leads to a blank screen
When trying to use vcxsrv on my laptop I am unable to remotely connect to a Linux system. I just get a blank screen during the remote connection attempt.
I have captured the log file as shown below:
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Why all Xorg log messages are written to journal at level 4 (warning)?
All the content of Xorg.n.log can be viewed with journalctl. As Xorg is launched by GDM (if I understand it correctly), it always has the --identifier=/usr/libexec/gdm-x-session. But despite this hint ...
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Dual Monitor - gdm3 uses wrong monitor
I have a dual monitor setup for Debian and my Desktop Environment is GNOME. I set the primary screen to screen 1 in Settings > Displays and it works fine. But my Display Manager gdm3 does not ...
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Is there a way to change failed login message on Linux systems (GDM)?
On CentOS7, when a login attempt fails, a message
Sorry, that didn't work. Please try again.
is prompted. Is there a way to change this message? Also, is there a way to customize the message ...
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My KDE is using gdm, and I think it's causing errors
My system is debian 11 and recently I migrated from Gnome to KDE. I don't think I did a clean job migrating it, but all I did was installing KDE in tasksel and swapping the desktop environment.
My ...
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gdm doen't start on Debian 11
When I start Debian 11, it can't enter into GUI desktop. Everytime, I enter my name and my passwords then I enter the code:
su
systemctl start gdm
Then I can enter into the GUI desktop. How should I ...
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Remove Suspend / Restart / Power Off… menu from Gnome Shell & GDM
I need to remove Suspend / Restart / Power Off… menu from Gnome Shell & GDM.
I’ve been trying using Settings, Gnome Tweaks, Dconf Editor, but nothing found AFAIK.
Trying to enter the Polkit conf ...
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I cannot log in to any of Gnome desktops on Fedora 37, but all other users can
I am running Linux on a completely updated Fedora 37 system. I encountered a problem a few days after my latest update (note that I had logged on and off and rebooted my machine several times between ...
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Remote Desktop Solution for Ubuntu 22.04, Wayland, RDP, and session management
I've been looking for a Remote Desktop solution for Ubuntu 22.04.
'gnome-remote-desktop', Ubuntu 22.04's standard RDP solution, automatically quits when the user logs out and it does not support login ...
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How do variables exported in `/etc/profile.d` end up in the systemd user environment on Gnome?
On Gnome with Systemd, systemd user environment variables are configured using the systemd environment.d mechanism, which doesn't rely on shell scripts, but on configuration files.
In parallel, many ...
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How to get rid of the virtual onscreen keyboard during login?
After updating from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04, the login screen automatically changes to only accepting the password via clicking a virtual onscreen keyboard.
It is very inconvenient and annoying having ...
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