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A display manager designed to be light weight

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How to force user to type username & password for LXDM Login Window Lubuntu

Is it possible to remove the drop down box with the list of users on the login window to Lubuntu and replace it with a text field that forces the user to type in both the Username and Password. Currently you are able to select a username from the…
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How do I install a package without installing the whole group?

I am trying to install the LXDM display manager. In Arch Linux, I use sudo pacman -S lxdm and it only installs LXDM. But in case of Ubuntu, sudo apt install lxdm is installing the whole LXDE, which is not needed for me. I want to run LXDM with XFCE…
15 Volts
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Remove LXDM and start DE via startx/startlxde

I want to remove lxdm and start lxde with just startx or startlxde. I previously just had an openbox installation and was building that up. I then installed lxde, but wanted to get rid of lxdm, so I uninstalled it. Upon doing so, typing startx or…
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Which is lighter/quicker: LXDM or LightDM?

I am using lubuntu and I am just wondering whether it would be worth switching from the default LXDM to LightDM. Are there any speed advantages of LightDM over LXDM? (An answer with more than one work is preferred.)
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no login screen after change from lightdm to xdm

On 12.04 LTS, I typed "apt-get install xdm" - then a window asked if I wanted lightdm or xdm, and I selected xdm. Then I rebooted but the display only showed, for a very long time, the word "ubuntu" and orange dots moving over a purple background.…
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How to enable user list in lxdm login manager?

I'm trying to enable the user list for lxdm (which is Lubuntu's default login manager). The file /etc/xdg/lubuntu/lxdm/lxdm.conf includes the code shown below but how to configure it? Are white and black for white/blacklisting? Why doesn't disable=0…
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lxdm won't login to Ubuntu 2d or Gnome classic

I installed Ubuntu 11.10 on an old Dell Centrino/512mb machine that was running too slow with Windows to be useful. I am completely new to Linux and muddling my way through as well as I can. The machine still runs pretty slow on Ubuntu. So I loaded…
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xorg.conf fails to build

I am trying to build an xorg.conf file in Lubuntu 12.10 using a tty login. I am following the documentation at Lubuntu Workarounds. It asks me to stop the lxdm service in order to run Xorg -configure to build a xorg.conf file, which I can then…
Marc
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Can't login to my XFCE environment from lxdm

I installed lxdm as my display manager because I heard its very lightweight. Now after installing it when I select my Desktop as Xfce session I am not able to login. Basically what happens is it waits for sometime and than reload the same login…
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No desktop preferences in LXDE

I'm using LXDE over Ubuntu 16.04. My issue is that I can change desktop preferences (like center, tile, stretch) from gdm. But when I login with LXDE, I can't find 'Desktop Preferences' tab/menu anywhere. I tried right clicking the moment I login,…
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19.10 resume from sleep , mouse cursor is live, but X takes no input, both lightdm and xdm

Xubuntu 19.10. Asus ZenBook UX390U About 1 in 5 "close the lid to sleep" cycles, when I open the laptop back up I have a mouse cursor, and the view of my previous session, but nothing is responsive, and the display manager doesn't kick-in (I've…
Dan Lyke
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Can't update anything after removing lxde. Error appears

sudo apt-get upgrade fails with this error: Removing lxdm (0.5.3-1) ... update-rc.d: error: no runlevel symlinks to modify, aborting! dpkg: error processing package lxdm (--remove): subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status…
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Turn off workspace switch-over display

Using LightDM and wmctrl to set up workspaces and switch between them. How can I deactivate the screen which is very briefly shown when switching between workspaces?
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Lubuntu 14.04 autologin problems

I'm having a login problem. When I Mark the autologin in the user and groups configuration in lxdm, it simply doesn't autologin and even I cannot login anymore, doesn't recognize my password. At least I can acess terminal. Could anyone sugest which…
Raphael Barros
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LXDM and Ubuntu 15.04

Currently, the lightdm is burning up too much CPU resource on my computer and from the searches I've done, it's a heavy display manager. Example, just having wunderlist web page open in firefox, the lightdm shoots up to 50cpu alone on Unity. But on…
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