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GNOME Display Manager (GDM) is a program which provides Ubuntu GNOME's graphical login screen.

GNOME Display Manager is a program which provides Ubuntu GNOME's graphical login screen. You may also install GNOME Display Manager manually in Ubuntu as follows:

sudo apt-get install gdm # Ubuntu 14.04

or

sudo apt-get install gdm3 # Ubuntu 16.04
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How to hide users from the GDM login screen?

I have recently added several new users, that I need for qmail. Now they appear in the box in the login screen and clutter it, and I have to scroll to find my user. How can I hide those users from the login box?
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How do I disable GDM and Graphical User Selection?

The new Ubuntu features a completely unkillable GDM. Is there a way to disable it? It is not enabled in services , the GDM startup script is deleted, it is removed from update.rc but it still starts up. How do I disable GDM and Graphical User…
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How can I change the order of the users in the login screen?

I have several user accounts on a machine my mother uses most of the time. How can I sort the users so that her account shows up first in the list?
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GDM isn't able to login

The login screen shows and i choose myself. Then the screen goes black, and the login screen shows again.
Arvid
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On screen keyboard malfunctioning on login screen

The problem is the login screen is divided into two showing a onscreen keyboard like thing in the left side and the same magnified in the other side. Also it is giving the error message as /usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status…
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How do I reset my GDM configuration?

My friend lent me her laptop and she followed some tutorial on how to switch the wallpaper in GDM2 but it didn't work and now it's stuck with some wallpaper I can't seem to get rid of, how do I reset GDMs config?
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Resolution issue causing login screen loop

My ubuntu (version 10.10 I think) is stuck in loop at the login screen. Looks like it could be a resolution issue. - I have an nvidia graphics card (gs 8400). I previously had it connected to a 19" monitor however disconnected mid session and since…
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Upgrade to Ubuntu 17.10 broke login

I upgraded to Ubuntu 17.10 but login is all messed up. Login is "command prompt", or whatever it's called. I have to type in my login credentials then startx to load desktop session. I need a login manager to I can choose fallback environment. …
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Night Light on GDM screen?

Is there a way to have Night Light active on the GDM login screen, prior to any user logging in, using start and end times configured by an admin or root account? Contents of /etc/gdm3/greeter.dconf-defaults... # These are the options for the…
Enterprise
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why can't I get gdm to stop?

im been trying to stop this x-server here on ubuntu 10.04. i have done: sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop (doesnt do anything really) sudo service gdm stop (stop: unknown instance) sudo stop gdm (stop: unknown instance) this is driving me…
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Radeon RX 560x graphics card doesn't have a driver for Ubuntu

Hi I have bought a new laptop Asus tuf . Below is config for same ASUS TUF FX505DY-BQ002T 15.6-inch FHD Gaming Laptop (AMD Ryzen 5-3550H/8GB/1TB HDD/Windows 10/Radeon RX 560X 4GB Graphics/2.20 Kg), After dual boot when I choose Ubuntu 16.04 and…
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Where to place a script, which clones gdm greeter to screen and beamer?

In Ubuntu 16.04 I could clone the ligthdm-greeter screen for PC and beamer on about 40 machines with following script placed in /usr/local/bin: #!/bin/bash # Sleep until System has configured Resolutions sleep 8 # Find 1. Screen SCREEN1=$(xrandr…
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There is no /etc/gdm directory?

I'm using ubuntu 13.10 and trying to add some startup scripts to gdm login screen. I found 4 places in documentation of gdm to do so: /etc/gdm/Init /etc/gdm/PostLogin /etc/gdm/PreSession /etc/gdm/PostSession but as the matter of fact, there is no…
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GDM Login screen Glitch

I tried to change the log in screen background of Ubuntu 19.10. I did the following modification in gdm3.css. #lockDialogGroup { background: url(file:///usr/share/backgrounds/thumb-1920-606500.jpg); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size:…
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gdm subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)

root@saimon-System-Product-Name:~# dpkg --install /home/saimon/Downloads/gdm-2.20_2.20.10-0ubuntu3_i386.deb (Reading database ... 165751 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../gdm-2.20_2.20.10-0ubuntu3_i386.deb…
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