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[ubuntu] Big change to Plymouth/Lightdm?

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http://ubuntuforums.org – I am not sure if it is the rc7 kernel release or an update from the repos but the transition screen in lightdm is now gone. Thats means to say that the default background does not fade over to the chosen background from the Plymouth to lighdm transition. (Hardware)

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Submitted by dayu on 11/27/2012

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Transition to LightDM 23 weeks 1 day ago

I would really like to see a transition towards LightDM.

The boot-up splash and login screen may be changed while trying out different desktop environments in Ubuntu, such as KDE, XFCE, LXDE. This quick tutorial is going to show you how to restore plymouth splash and LightDM login greeter to default if you messed them up. Restore plymouth the splash screen to default: Launch a terminal window from the dash or press Ctrl+Alt+T.

Is there a permanent fix for the looping login problem in LightDM?

I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit. LightDM won't work even though I haven't changed any options (background, etc.). It just throws another login screen at me if I log in.

So I did the stuff you're supposed to. I reconfigured gdm from the terminal and used that to log in, and have been using gdm for ~3 months now.

during bootup, on my system with the radeon kms driver, my displays turn off (both showing 'no signal' messages) between grub and lightdm.

grub displays normally, lightdm graphical login displays normally and x displays and works normally.

I have made a plymouth splash screen (its simple- it just displays a .png image) consisting of simple.plymouth, simple.script, simple.grub and wallpaper.png. Only, I cannot set it as default y editing the default.plymouth file (that errors) or through

sudo update-alternatives --set default.plymouth /lib/plymouth/themes/MYTHEME/simple.plymouth

it errors back at me saying no setting exists.

Plymouth splash screen is the initial splash screen at boot-up.Ubuntu 10.04 uses Plymouth instead of xsplash to manage the fancy boot graphics.If you want something different,you can try following method to change the default Plymouth splash screen.

Simple LightDM Manager 1 year 31 weeks ago

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Since Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric, LightDM replaces GDM as the default display manager.If you want to manage lightdm you can use Simple LightDM Manager.Currently this tool only supports chaging background and logo (...)Read the rest of Simple LightDM Manager (53 words)

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A little while back, I asked how to change the plymouth theme, here...

How to change ugly gray startup animation screen that KDE installed?

I just upgraded to 12.10, and now it is back using the kubuntu grey theme, and the methods outlined in the old question, and even using super-boot-manager, no longer seem to have any effect.

After installing the latest kernel update 3.6.3-1.fc17.x86_64 I find that when I reboot and try to use the new kernel I get the following error.

Failed to start wait for plymouth boot screen to quit see systemctl status plymouth-quit-wait.service for details.

I have no idea what that means so after doing some Googling I tried using the following command sudo service plymouth-quit-wait disabl