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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Autologin is successful but gnome session is locked with keyring on ubuntu 22.04
On ubuntu 22.04, I want to login remotely to it using RDP after boot up, the machine is not connected any display. RDP is not started and Wayland (Gnome session) is not unlocked without physical ...
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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.
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Can I run Wayland and X11 compositors side by side on one system?
I would like to run a Wayland based comp (KDE Plasma) and an X11 based one (Mate+Xmonad) on the same system. The scenario could be something like having user A with KDE and user B with Mate. A third ...
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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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SDDM on across one giant screen
I wish to have SDDM stretch all 3 of my monitors. This way, I can have one giant art background across three monitors with the login options in the middle monitor.The code I have in the Xsetup is
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Change SSH TTY session type to X11 at console?
I have a Debian 12 VM that and when I boot it remotely the user session is a TTY, can I have it launch an X11 session at the console end?
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KDE is installed
I have selected plasma-x11 as my ...
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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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border-only ghost window blocking mouse clicks
At some point (I don't remember when it started), some kind of ghost window appeared that only has a border (displays as rounded but behaves as rectangular), blocks mouse clicks, and won't disappear ...
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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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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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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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Software method to unplug/re-plug a DisplayPort cable to re-initialise the connection?
Is there any software way to have the same effect as unplugging/re-plugging a DisplayPort cable without physically doing so?
The reason why I want to know is that my Dell monitor's resolution becomes ...
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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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Does gnome-core includes window manager and display server?
So I've freshly installed Debian without the tasksel option to install a desktop environment. I wonder how it works that if I install the package gnome-core, everything works fine, even without ...
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Are GDMs faster than CDMs in starting Xorg?
I suppose since graphical display managers already launch Xorg, they would just have to re-initiate it rather than launching it from the start like startx does.
So in that case does Xorg completely ...
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