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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Strange Grub and lightdm garbled texts
As you can see in the pictures, grub and lightdm have garbled fonts. I think it's about the refresh rate of the monitor. Monitor is 100Hz. How can I change grub refresh rates?
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lightdm/xorg prevents remounting read only
I have a kiosk system based on Debian 12 with some partitions readonly (namely / and /boot, while /var and /home are writable). The setup works completely fine. However, sometimes, after a system ...
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Dbus issue when trying to run Wayland session
My distro is based on Slackware, therefore it doesn't have systemd, but SysVinit + elogind. I'm trying to use LightDM to initiliaze my desktop environment sessions, but I have either dbus services ...
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Black screen with mouse cursor after unlocking the screen after some inactivity, on an Nvidia card
I uploaded all logs here. After unlocking the PC after a period of inactivity (a few hours?), I'm often met with a black screen with nothing but a mouse cursor on it (that I can move). The only fix I ...
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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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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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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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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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