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Questions tagged [lightdm]

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Change display manager from SD card

I installed xdm on my raspberry pi os with apt, at the end of the installation, it prompt me to choose default display manager and I chose xdm instead of previously installed lightdm. Now when I power it on, for some reason it cannot load display…
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How to get desktop logon to work on Raspbian Jessie Lite (lightdm fail)?

Steps to reproduce: copy latest Raspbian Jessie Lite image to sdcard install updates, reboot run raspi-config, choose "boot into Desktop" from boot menu install lightdm package as suggested by raspi-config reboot After these steps cli is only…
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Auto-login with other account than pi

I want to perform autologin with an account "baa_user" at boot, which is in his own group (baa_user) & have his own home folder, without admin rights at all. I tried almost all solutions that I found but no one worked. Change file…
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kiosk mode: lightm toggles between DisplayServer x-0 and x-1

I am running a Raspberry Pi 3B with a 7" touch display in kiosk mode. I am setting up Firefox to start on a specified web page, and have to specify the X server display number. User pi is set to auto-login, and launch Firefox by adding this line: …
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Failed to start Light Display Manager

I've been getting this error a few times but somehow was able to get through it by plugging in the hdmi cable (I use vnc). But now the I get this error even when I use the HDMI cable. I tried installing the lightdm packages again and it says…
Dylan Sebastian
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Raspberry pi 3 startup problem after successful login

I have a strange problem with a raspberry pi 3 that has been working for about 6 months without problem. I had an issue with it today connecting to wifi so I tried rebooting it from the gui. After reboot I got the login screen and proceeded to log…
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Unable to run pygame script on Raspberry Pi with display out using framebuffer or X Server

I’m having trouble running a pygame script on my Raspberry Pi Zero 2W with Raspberry Pi OS Lite. The script is intended to display images directly on the screen. However, I’m encountering errors and unable to get it to display anything. Here’s the…
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What to do about "set -o vi" breaking X on raspbian

I use KornShell almost exclusively, and I use the following in my .profile for all systems that I log in to: set -o vi Recently, I began using the desktop for Raspberry Pi (all these years, I've been using only SSH access for all my many Pi…
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Raspberry Pi 4 becomes unresponsive after Chromium idle

I am building a kiosk application on my Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB RAM Version) that requires that Chromium continuously idles as a service. I created a supervisorctl service that will keep it alive and give me the ability to easily stop, start, fetch…
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Not asked to login in Jessie Light after installing lightdm, xorg and xinit: why?

I have Jessie Light on my rpi 3 and have further installed lightdm, xorg and xinit partly following the instructions of this guide. But after booting, I am directly taken to a terminal window without being asked to login with a password. Why is it…
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Turning off OS popup "mount" windows

I'm currently working on a RPi 3B+ with RaspberryOS (NOT the lite version), programming a Python GUI for a life-size game. I'm trying to change how the OS behaves. I do not have experience doing that. My GUI works but it needs to stay in focus and…
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Raspberry Pi 4 with Raspbian fails to load desktop on USB DisplayLink screens

When using a freshly imaged uSD card with Raspbian in my Raspberry Pi 4, after initial splash screens for setup/autoconfigure, I'm left with a black screen, with the text cursor blinking in the top left. I can access and view/use TTYs fine (e.g.…
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After activating Watchdog on Raspbian the system goes to login screen when system reboots after freezing

I have made the necessary watchdog settings for 2021-12-02-raspios-buster-armhf in accordance with Watchdog on the RPi4 in the operating system. When I test the watchdog with fork bomb command sudo bash -c ':(){ :|:& };:' the system reboots but goes…
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Raspberry Pi Zero W auto login

I am trying to enable an auto login on a Raspberry Pi Zero W with Raspbian Booster 10. I am interested in the Desktop interface, not the Command one, which works with auto login enabled. I have tried the following: sudo raspi config modifying the…
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Lightdm will not autostart

My issue is with Lightdm, it will not autostart, keeps going to CLI. From there I can type startx and it works fine. I have run raspi-config to set boot straight to desktop, seems to have been ignored. I have also ran "sudo dpkg-reconfigure…
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