Questions tagged [display-manager]
This tag is for questions about software that manages the graphical login screen and session on your Linux system. This includes popular display managers like - gdm, lightdm, sddm, lxdm,kdm,etc.
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Issue with 2 Monitors in XFCE using a Docking Station
I'm running XFCE on a Lenovo T460 and a docking station. I have the laptop screen, one monitor connected via VGA, and another connected via DVI. On the DVI screen, when I open a window on my desktop ...
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Debian 13 w/ gdm3 boots to black screen with a blinking underscore
I recently installed Debian 13 RC (trixie) on VMWare using the net install image and during the installation I opted out the desktop environment. After the installation, I installed the gdm3 packages ...
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Xorg not starting when invoked from Python
I'm creating a display manager (dm) in python, which waits to Xorg to start in order to run the GUI. Python (omitted unnecessary code like widgets and classes and functions) import os (more imports ...
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"Failed to read display number from pipe" when running SDDM on Arch linux ARM (Virtual machine)
I wanted to try Arch and as I have an M1 Mac, I need to use the ARM version of arch or otherwise my Arch is slow as fuk because it's emulated. I'm using UTM as my virtual machine (for those who don't ...
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Does there exist a scriptable Display Manager that allows me to login a user?
I've been looking at Display Managers like SDDM, GDM and LightDM, but it doesn't seem as if they support a non-interactive login. I want to issue a command to have it login to one of the users, ...
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Display manager that works well with multiple displays and multiple sacling
I am looking for a display manager that works with multiple displays and multiple scaling. I am running Linux Mint on a laptop with a 4k screen. I also have a 1440p portable monitor and a 1440p ultra-...
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No GUI or login shell on boot
When I boot my pc (Debian 12 with Gnome3) I get directly taken to a blinking line instead of a login promt or a GUI. From there I can switch tty (Alt + F2) and then get a login promt and after login I'...
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How to start KDE from command line interface
I installed Fedora 38 via the Network Installer (also called Everything) and there was no desktop environment preinstalled so I installed plasma-desktop package which is labelled as Plasma Desktop ...
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