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.
Questions tagged [gdm]
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Modified login shell crashes when display manager loads
For a reason I've made an static binary and rewrote it on /bin/bash. The code:
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
char *realbin, *curbin;
FILE…
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Run command after GDM authenticates user - GDM with swaywm
I am trying to configure a window manager (swaywm) which doesn't support display managers, to work with GDM. I want to use the command gdmflexiserver in conjunction with swaylock (like slock/i3lock, but for sway) to lock my session.
GDM is running…
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Alt+F8 or resize window causes X server display Freeze
Our project is based on Linux Redhat 7 and disabled the "gdm" service.
and when the user tries to resize the window which is based on the X window, the program will suddenly freeze, until the user has done the resize operation.
The resize can also…
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Ubuntu 20.04 GDM3 Root Login GUI How Can I Disable Security Notification
firstly sorry for my english because im trying to explain my question yours.
System Details;
Ubuntu 20.04
GDM3 (GUI) Installed
VNC Connection Installed
Root Login Enabled for login screen & SSH
Automatic Login Enabled login screen
everythings good…
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why do I get full window expose events always?
In the test program:
/*
* Study for Xwindow events.
*/
#include
#include
#include
#include
//#define BACKGROUND_PAINT
void prtxevtt(int type)
{
switch (type) {
case 2: fprintf(stderr,…
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How to enable "-listen TCP" in Xvnc on Red Hat 8.4
By default, older versions of Xvnc listened for connections from x-windows clients on ports 6000+. This functionality could be disabled by the "-nolisten TCP" command line option. In turn, the GNOME desktop manager controlled this option via the…
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Starting Synergy during gdm startup (greeter) in CentOS8
This is similar to Starting synergy automatically on RHEL/CentOS
However this doesn't seem to be working anymore.
What I basically want to do is execute a program when the greeter is shown. THis has been working before by adding it to the…
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xfce4 via VcXsrv Server on wsl2 issues with DPI
I'm new to linux - well, not new to bash basics, but running on an old laptop for the first time a linux mint distro, and at the same time on the main windows machine running wsl2 with xfce4 via VcXsrv server.
There are a lot of tips on setting this…
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How to make Ubuntu 18.04 to auto login into i3
I want to have my Ubuntu 18.04.1 system autologin into i3, but all attempts were failures and gdm keeps booting into gnome :(
Things I've tried:
I've created .xinitrc that launched i3 (it worked with startx command, but wasn't a default variant for…
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How Does The GTK Library Connect to Gnome Windows Manager
I was reading an article on the X Window Server. How Does The GTK Library Connect to Gnome Windows Manager? Is it through a Unix Domain Socket or through DBus or through some other inter process communication (IPC) mechanism?
Thanks.
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gdm-password conversation error occurs every 25 minutes without user attempting to login
I am running CentOS 6.6 and I trying to figure out what might be causing gdm-password error to show up every 25 minutes in /var/log/messages log eventhough no user has attempted to login. Can someone please help me to understand what might be…
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Replace gui login on gnome with cli
Is it possible to replace/disable the gui/gdm login on gnome with the cli, and after login the gnome desktop to show up?
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Where the "g_debug" output in GDM source code?
I want to know how gdm works, so I read the gdm source code. I saw a lot of g_debug output in the source code like this:
case SIGUSR1:
g_debug ("Got USR1 signal");
/* FIXME:
* Play with log levels or something
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Key repeating on Tigervnc-server and GDM login Screen Imposible to type paswords
Sever running on a Centos 7 box whit Kde and GDM login Screen the problem it is i ran x0vncserver to access to GDM like this
XAUTHORITY=/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-8UsAty6/:0 x0vncserver -passwordfile ~/.vnc/passwd -display :0
and i can connect to…
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