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GDM is the GNOME Display Manager

The GNOME Display Manager (GDM) is a program that manages graphical display servers and handles graphical user logins. See here and here for further information.

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Ubuntu, lock screen but do not screensave

When I do not use my graphical session anymore, the screensaver automatically lock it and power off the screen to save energy. I want it to keep locking my session but not to power off the screen, is it possible ? I use Ubuntu 18.04 with default…
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Aligning .Xauthority between GDM and SSH

I've run into a problem in that if I start Emacs in daemon mode on my remote system, then in my local system I run ssh remotehost emacsclient -c, it fails with X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. However, things like ssh…
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How to change X window Properties

I am using gdm and my goal is to disable user interaction on a specific X window id. I have tried to change many X-win properties like WM_PROTOCOLS, WM_HINTS, _NET_WM_ALLOWED_ACTIONS using xprop. Although, I was successful to change the properties…
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How do I capture minimize and maximize events in XWindows?

I would like to determine if my XWindow is minimized or maximized. My example program is: /* * Study for multiple windows. */ #include #include #include #include void prtxevtt(int type) { switch…
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Problem with xrdp (xvnc) when are already a session oppened in local

Description of steps: The user came to the office and login in Gnome 3 session. The user finishes their workday in the office, but forget to log out. Later, the user wants to do "Home Office" and it connects to their workstation via XRDP. Expected…
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How to change default session in Ubuntu 18.04 gdm3?

I'm trying to figure out how to change the default session in Ubuntu 18.04 Gnome. By default for any new users, "ubuntu" is selected. How can I change this to "ubuntu on wayland"? Thanks in advance!
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GDM3 + LDAP in Ubuntu 18.04

I'm trying to configure LDAP using GDM3 (3.28.0) in Ubuntu 18.04. But i can just log in terminal with ldap users. In the GUI I can't log in (famous GDM loop login). I configure pam to create the home folder: vim /etc/pam.d/common-session session…
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"gdm -v" failed : failed to acquire org.gnome.DisplayManager

I am using SUSE Enterprise 11 SP3 and I want to check the version of gdm using: localhost:~ # gdm --version But I got an error: ** (gdm:5398): WARNING **: Failed to acquire org.gnome.DisplayManager ** (gdm:5398): WARNING **: Could not acquire…
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Gdm autologin repeats autostart

I enabled gdm autologin on kde 4.14.8. [daemon] AutomaticLoginEnable=True AutomaticLogin=username It seems to log in automatically when I first boot the VM, but it runs my autostart script about 25 times. The autostart script mostly just starts…
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Gnome coming blank

We are trying to start xserver as user using startx command, once startx start the X server we try to start the gnome-session on same display. But when we connect to the display using x11vnc it shows up all blank. But with the same process if we…
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Logout lightdm session does not close session

I have lightdm running on RHEL7.9. But when I try to logout user from vnc session. It doesn't close the vnc session instead it stays with blank screen and the process is not getting exited. I have also tried "exit_on_failure=true" under Seats…
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Fedora Linux - Xresources setting of Xft.dpi is ignored

I would like to change the Xft.dpi Xresources property (to get larger fonts in LibreOffice). By default it is 96, as shown by % xrdb -query | grep dpi Xft.dpi: 96 I want to set it to 192 so I created a file ~/.Xresources with content Xft.dpi: …
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Suspend after screen lock in GNOME on Xorg

I'm using GNOME 43.4 version on Xorg, along with gdm3. GNU/Linux System Debian 12. I want to disable the option for the system not to suspend when I lock the screen (Super+L). By gnome-tweaks and ohter ways, it only works if I'm using GNOME over…
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How to add an existing user to the Ubuntu 22.04 login interface of gdm3

I had created a user called "d0" ,with the cmd "sudo adduser d0". Before do this , i had other two users. The strange thing is that the two users I created earlier were displayed on the login interface. But the "d0" user I created cannot be seen on…
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Gnome Shell Extensions: Errors when opening certain settings

Specifically, this is about ArcMenu and Blur my Shell. The former used to work, the latter never did. The extensions do what they're supposed to, but the settings menu never works. I tried uninstalling every gnome package, removing all extensions…
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