Sep 24, 2016 · gdm3, kdm, and lightdm are all display managers. They provide graphical logins and handle user authentication. From a Wiki article,: A display manager presents the user with …

Aug 24, 2011 · What is the difference between GDM and LightDM? How can one switch between them. I mean if I have selected LightDM during installation process, will I be able switch to GDM?

Jun 29, 2011 · I want user foo to auto-login using LightDM (which has been used by Ubuntu since version 11.10). How would I do that?

Apr 18, 2017 · For reference, lightdm.conf.gz contains the following: # # General configuration # # start-default-seat = True to always start one seat if none are defined in the configuration # …

I have LightDM installed and can start it with sudo start lightdm. But at boot, GDM is still the default. How can change this so LightDM is loaded automatically at boot instead of GDM?

Usually, the lightdm does not start completely, but systemd is able to start all services needed, as their own login manager. Changing tty will let you purge and reinstall the login manager …

Adding a pre-start script to lightdm get's my script to run before lightdm starts, but I think ligthdm starts x after this, so the settings I change via xinput/xsetwacom are not preserved by the time …

Nov 5, 2011 · Stop LightDM with sudo stop lightdm. Depending upon which you have installed, start GDM with sudo start gdm or KDM with sudo start kdm. Run sudo dpkg-reconfigure …

Feb 9, 2018 · GDM is the default DM in Ubuntu as of 17.10. LightDM is still the default for some other flavours, like Xubuntu or Lubuntu, and I doubt either of these projects will move to GDM, …

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