I am trying to make the unity-greeter to behave nicely with our /etc/passwd with ~33000 entries. So far I can make it to not traverse the passwd when displaying the greeter, so that is well and good.But as soon as I type in a username and hit enter, it wants to load the list. So a login takes too lo ...
A unity-greeter theme for lightdm has been uploaded and is currently not installed by default and has to be manually enabled even after installation. It's still a work-in-progress but I think it's already an improvement over the current greeter (which was never intended to be the final 11.10 version ...
HiI think I have found about 3 bugs in LightDM/Unity-Greeter which is kind of putting me off from using it as my main Login Manager for the time being.Could people read through these and see if they have noticed any of these as well:-1) https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-greeter/+bug/835310LightDM doe ...
In Ubuntu 11.04 the login screen has the list of users accompanied with the pictures each user set in the properties of his or her user account (System Settings -> User Accounts).Ubuntu 11.10 uses LightDM login manager with the Unity greeter (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricOcelot/ReleaseNotes ...
So I ended up interrupting my upgrade to Natty: I'd left my iPod plugged in during the upgrade, and it hung on reinstalling GRUB.With great consternation, I kill -9'd the grub configuration, eventually figured out that the iPod was causing the problem, and, via apt-get clean, update, upgrade, manage ...
Is anybody else having a problem with changing the GDM greeter / login screen in Intrepid? After going to the Login Screen applet under the System menu, and changing the login screen to something other than the default, it doesn't seem to stick when I re-login. I can even add a new greeter to the li ...
I accidentally ran the command "unity-greeter" and my theme got screwed. The icons are changed and the buttons don't seem to be ambiance themed anymore. The buttons and icons are the same in Gnome3 shell as well as in unity. Gnome tweak tool doesn't work in changing it back. I also tried r ...
After looking for ages I finally found the customisation method for the new LightDM Greeter. To save others searching I thought I would just post it here.sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.confAdd:greeter-hide-users=trueallow-guest=false(credit: http://www.puppychau.com/archives/130)Unfortunately, the S ...
I'm running FC4 and have recently upgraded my kernel (and everything, I think, with it). The problem I am encountering is with logging in other users.When I logout of my default login into gnome (not root, just my non-root user name), and then try to login either as root, the same user I logged out ...
I hava a strange problem. Yesterday I worked on ubuntu and at first skype broke and after that my whole desktop envionmente, all Panels, Unity Launcher, everything disappered but the wallpaper. CLI did work quiete well. After rebooting via CLI I got the normal Unity Login Screen, but if I tried to l ...
Hi, I´m having trouble with login screen. (Fedora 6 )First of all I have both KDM theme Manager and the one in Control Center, on ly the changes made at the one in control Center apply.The problem is thath I can only select the default themes, any theme I download ( from Kde-look.org) throws differ ...
I have tested this on Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit many times . Use at your own risk.1. Enter command in terminal.sudo cp /usr/share/applications/gnome-appearance-properties.desktop /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow2. Close terminal and reboot .3. Make changes to greeter box using appearance preferences b ...
I have a computer dual booted with XP and Ubuntu (Windows installed first). When I upgraded to Hardy Heron, it seems like Ubuntu just kinda broke itself, lol. It boots up to the login screen, but when I login it just freezes.Last time I upgraded Ubuntu HAL stopped working. So I would just like to st ...
When I first boot up my laptop I get sound at the loging screen (although it is a double sound like the file plays twice). After login and at the desktop I have no sound again. Selecting "System>Preferences>Multimedia Systems Selector" I get this when I press the "TEST" but ...
Ok here's my problem.Im on i386 breezy. I'm using 1024x768@85Hz just fine for my desktop but everytime I restart and ubuntu gets to the graphical login screen my monitor changes to 65Hz Vertrefresh and 81Hz Horizrefresh Totally offset and jacked up...How do I make it so it boots up into 1024x768@85H ...
Hello, I decided that I wanted to use the desktop cube in Ubuntu Classic (Gnome), and apparently when I installed the older version of Compiz Fusion to run on Gnome it uninstalled Unity. I now want to use unity, but when i try the unity --reset code, it says that that Unity is not installed, and to ...
I am having some issues with reinstalling lucid lynx 10.04. I am pretty green to Linux but have been messin with comps for years(windows). I installed Lucid about 3 months ago on my desktop and my laptop, mostly to force myself to learn the new os as fast as possible. Story aside my issue is this. I ...
Hi. Like the title says, I'm trying to Change the LightDM Greeter from the unity-greeter to lightdm-gtk-greeter. So far all I have successfully done is make my computer not boot,( I changed the lightdm.conf greeter session) When I tried to change it via terminal using this commandsudo lightdm --gree ...
on launchpad i see so many webkit greeter source packages. i tried so many things to get webkit greeter working. but always it ends with the black and white terminal style login screen where i have to set unity greeter back to default.can someone explain how to make the lightdm webkit greeter work?o ...
im using ubuntu 11.04 after extensive goggling i found that changing the greeter(login) theme was near imposable with gdm so 3 more hrs of goggling and lightdm seems to be the answer now how on earth do i change the theme from its default to one i downloaded off of gnome-look.org? ive read that i ne ...
Playing around in my Theme Greeter folder (usr/share/gdm/themes) I replaced (by mistake) the background.png from the Human GDM Theme Greeter (Login Screen). How can I get it back? Can I re-install the Human GDM Theme Greeter? I can't find in the web. The reason I did was because I wanted to contribu ...
Just upgraded to Oneiric Ocelot, And the first thing I noticed is that LightDM has those white dots. I thought that if I changed the picture it would remove the dots. Changed picture and it still shows those [censored] white dots. Does anyone know how I can remove the white dots from my LoginDon't k ...
Would appreciate ANY help with my problem? I've recently installed 11.10 and decided to change the logon screen via gksu gedit /etc/lightdm/unity-greeter.conf. That went OK, until I mistakenly removed the entire greeter line? Now my beautiful ubuntu install just displays the purple loading screen? I ...
I have Ubuntu 11.10, with Gnome 3.I recently edited the lightdm.conf file to replace my background image on the logon workspace, I then disabled the guest-login leaving me with the "Username" login box and the "Other..." logon box.Replaced background image via:$ sudo gedit /etc/l ...
I just upgraded to Koala and am very unhappy about the new login screen situation. I have googled around a bit but have been unable to find the information I require. I fail to see how saving a few seconds on boot time is worth removing features that I would consider essential. Am I the only one? Ub ...
I was careful with checking config files on upgrade. Only a few were replaced and I checked each one manually. On reboot grub2 had no menu, just a prompt. No idea why! Failbeans! A recovery CD with chroot wasn't working for me because I couldn't remember how to mount /dev/ with --bind So with a lot ...
How do I enable auto login for Lubuntu 11.10 ?I tried to inspired from this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1864527&page=2 and set lightdm.conf file:[SeatDefaults] user-session=lubuntu greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter autologin-user=my_username autologin-user-timeout=0but it d ...
When I try to start lightdm shipped with xubuntu-desktop package, the screen just blinks.I'm using lxdm instead at the moment, but it has some problem (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1871456)I read log file, but couldn't find anything wrong.I found a warning in the logfile and googled, but ...
So I upgraded from 11.04 to 11.10 and now I dont have a statusbar or taskbar. Nothing on the top or the bottom. This happens for my user login. When I login as guest everything works. I tried unity --reset but that just hung. I dont know what to try and where to start from. I did search other thread ...
When I installed Mythbuntu 11.10, I didn't need/want to have it automatically log me in. But, now I decided to move the computer into another room, and use it as a DVR only setup. So, I don't want to have a keyboard/mouse (if possible). The problem I have is that I can't configure Mythbuntu to autom ...
I've installed Ubuntu 11.04 (the latest alpha release) on virtualbox.It starts with gnome, not Unity.... On login screen i don't see any "Unity" option, just Gnome....What did i miss? :) ...
I am trying to customize the login screen on Ubuntu 10.04. I know about that way of running:sudo cp /usr/share/applications/gnome-appearance-properties.desktop /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow/then logging out, changing the wallpaper, logging back in and running:sudo unlink /usr/share/gdm/autost ...
Hi, I was having a "Greeter login 'Application Crashing" during boot and when I decided to customized my log in screen, but I got some help from the forum and manage to get into my desktop via the command line. What I was told do was:$ killall gdm$ sudo killall gdmfollow by$startxMy only p ...
Has anyone found a way to change the screen resolution used for the GDM Greeter (login) screen. This was a problem for me with Gutsy and worked fine in Hardy until I shut my computer off yesterday. When I started it back up the greeter screen was 800x600 and scewed on my monitor. Screenshot looks no ...
I know that Unity is supposed to be the next best thing since sliced-bread, 'which it isn't;' but there 'are' some changes that could be made to it, that would allow me to live with it...*First of all. I'd like to be able to access a 'text' menu from inside of Unity. Frankly, I think having to logou ...
Hi. I tried Ubuntu Studio for about 5 months in Virtualbox, created a live cd using Remastersys, after many tries I installed it on dual-boot this week. I had many hard times configuring it and after all this struggle to make it work there is something that worries me about Ubuntu. Currently I am us ...
Just installed Netbook edition on a touch screen notebook, after some playing around I tapped on the upper left and the whole desktop suddenly disappeared only the cursor left, reboot doesn't fix, I even reinstall Unity but no use, what's up and how to fix ?? ...
Use the following procedure carefully to change the default color and font used by one of the gdm (greeter, login window) themes on 9.04Jaunty. In this example I am changing the color and font of the username password entry fields on the gdm greeter login window "Human" theme in jaunty, 9. ...
Playing around in my Theme Greeter folder (usr/share/gdm/themes) I replaced (by mistake) the background.png from the Human GDM Theme Greeter (Login Screen). How can I get it back? Can I re-install the Human GDM Theme Greeter? I can't find in the web. The reason I did was because I wanted to contribu ...
I was looking around in the login preferences, and without knowing what 'chooser' or 'greeter' meant, I chose 'chooser' ... now the login screen is wanting me to connect remotely, but there is nowhere remote to connect to, so I want the 'greeter' login screen back ... how would I do this, on the com ...
Earlier today I used AutomatixBleeder (http://www.getautomatix.com/) ](*,) to (attempt to) install Xgl/Compiz, There where numerous errors during the install, and X would not come back up when I rebooted, I am able to get X up and running again pretty easily (but quite bothersome) by running: sudo n ...
Was a little too excited when I heard about this week's update, so I went into synaptic and forced an update to unity-common. Turns out that was a no-no. Both unity and ubuntu-desktop were removed.ubuntu-desktop wont reinstall without unity, so I get this when I try to reinstall:unity depends: unity ...
Well the subject pretty much says it. I had a bunch of problems with Compiz and Unity so i attempted to reset everything by uninstalling and reinstall Unity. That seemed to work but the only issue is that the top left menu is completely gone. It never comes up. The menu works for a particular window ...
I have a dual monitor setup using TwinView running an up-to-date Ubuntu 11.04 amd64. The GDM (login) greeter is displayed in the center of the screen, and thus, one half of the greeter is on the left monitor and the other half is on the right monitor. I've been trying to find away to move the greete ...
Look, I know that most people hate the Unity interface, and I'm not sure if I like it a lot, but I do want to try it out as I haven't done every since I've installed 11.04. I've been having a bit of trouble with it though....1) I can't get unity to open on startup, I have to open compiz fusion icon ...
(It's crashing some much that I tried to post this like 3 times)This time I will be shortI upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10, Gnome 3 classic sucks so I tried to use Unity but when I tried to enable compiz cube Unity died.I used the command unity --reset and it worked once, but then it's just crashed for no ...
I've been using x11vnc to remotely log into several other computers by first logging in via ssh and opening port 5900. When I reboot a machine remotely where it's sitting at the greeter, I have to use the -auth command, like:sudo x11vnc -forever -nomodtweak -auth /home/vic/.Xauthority -display :0 -u ...
I got this about half an hour ago:The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 1. Codenamed "Oneiric Ocelot", 11.10 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition ofintegrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into ahigh-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has ...
I have a similar problem to this.I recently upgraded Ubuntu to version 11.10, and whenever I log into Ubuntu desktop session, I get a notification in the top bar about held packages. This also occurs when I check for new updates in the package manager, but it does not seem to occur whenever I update ...
I own a Dell N7010 installed ubuntu 11.10 64 bitsince the recent xx14 kernel update ... it works for a few hours with the new kernel but after wards in restart it logs into unity 2d and it no longer cannot detect my Graphics DriverI reinstalled Ubuntu and den after update it happened again.... its r ...