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Paul
Asked: 2012-08-10 09:09:40 +0800 CST

Enable graphical login in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

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Ubuntu has been installed in VMWare using easy install (or something sounding like this). Therefore the OS starts now in text mode and to access GUI I have to type startx.

How to enable the GUI with graphical login screen?

/etc/default/grub file has following values inside:

....
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
....
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console

so it corresponds to recommendations how to turn graphical login on.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The Grub configuration is only to do with actually booting the system. Once the kernel is loaded, that takes over.

    The answer here suggests trying sudo apt-get -f install gdm in case the installation has dependency problems or checking /etc/init/gdm.conf for start up rules.

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