If I’m inside gnome in Ubuntu 10.04 and I open up a terminal and type “sudo restart gdm” I get back to the login screen. When I log in however all the toolbars are missing. If I maximize a window then it only maximizes up to where the toolbars should be. It’s like the toolbars … Read more
If I’m inside gnome in Ubuntu 10.04 and I open up a terminal and type “sudo restart gdm” I get back to the login screen. When I log in however all the toolbars are missing. If I maximize a window then it only maximizes up to where the toolbars should be. It’s like the toolbars … Read more
So I have done some googling and experimenting to change the GDM icon (Ubuntu 10.04) and have found the following ways: UbuntTweak Replace /usr/share/icons/LoginIcons/apps/64/computer.svg with your own svg Change the gconf config setting /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/logo_icon_name to be the name of your icon in the theme. Then copy that file to the icon theme path: /usr/share/icons/LoginIcons/apps/64/. I … Read more
Every time I boot I get the following process that is taking %99.3 of my CPU /usr/bin/X :0 -nr -verbose -auth /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-EowSOU/database -nolisten tcp vt7 when I kill the pid I lose ssh connection, apache goes down and have to restart the machine. Anyone know what this is? thanks Answer just change the file mode … Read more
I’ve got three displays connected via DVI on two different ATI cards on Arch Linux using the xf86-video-ati driver. All three are currently serving output, but one of my displays (the one on the second card) falls back to a grey screen and a black “x” cursor after logging in to GDM. Worth noting is … Read more
I tried removing: /var/log/wtmp /var/log/ConsoleKit/history the completet gnome tree in /var/lib and accountservices nothing helped. The user list ist still there. We want to have a fresh box to give to the user when tests are finished. Answer Maybe too late for the answer. Same situation. I succeeded truncatig logs: echo -n ” > /var/log/wtmp … Read more
I start a process with init.d and want to be able to create GUI applications as child processes. Because of the early start of this process, the environment variables DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY are not set. I can just set DISPLAY to be :0.0, which works fine. However, I am having more trouble with the XAUTHORITY … Read more
Ok i am now struggling with this problem since a few days. My problem is i am not able to save the current monitor settings, to apply / save after a reboot. I have 3 monitors and want to mirror 2 of them but not the third. I can do this with the nvidia-settings gui … Read more
I’m tired of GNOME’s problems with my Fedora 18 instance, and decided to move on to another desktop environment. After successfully changing to Xfce, I still couldn’t get rid of GDM which annoys me a lot: it is super slow and slows down my boot time by 2 seconds, sometimes more. I have installed slim … Read more
Whenever I boot into GDM, I get this weird visual tearing of the elements on the screen. I’m able to actually log in (by pressing enter and typing in my password) but the visual elements in the login screen are completely messed up. I have gnome and gnome-extras installed and I’ve updated my system with … Read more
