On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 9:49 PM Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > > I use rotated monitors ("tallscreens") for my computers. > > How do I configure lightdm for a screen rotated right? ... > Frankly, I would prefer to log in from the same text > screen as boot, THEN have a LOGIN SCRIPT fire up Mate > instead of a GUI greeter, but I don't know how to make > that happen either.
----- On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 02:55:48PM -0500, Bill Barry wrote: > Since the switch over to systemd the process is much different, but > here are the instructions for setting things up to boot into console > mode > https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2020/05/boot-ubuntu-20-04-command-console/ ... ----- Thanks Bill! I tried their approach, which taught me the right way to achieve my goal. Absurdly simple; starting with my boot screen rescaling and rotation tweaks in /boot/grub/grub.cfg , I simply entered the commands: sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target sudo update-grub The system now boots to a graphical login prompt. No greeter, no mouse, no lightdm !!! I now log in using text mode, then type startx, and my mate desktop appears in seconds. Or not; sometimes I need to do system repair; text mode makes that easier. I will create a web page on my wiki.keithl.com website describing how to do this Real Soon Now. ---- The text login approach also seems more secure. I can imagine The Bad Guys creating a web page that looks just like the generic mate-ubuntu login screen. If I type my password into that, I'm /powned/. Perhaps my white-on-black text login screen (AND SCREEN RESOLUTION) could be faked by The Bad Guys as well, but they would need more information about my specific setup to do that. Perhaps I can add a page of customized text (error warning excerpts from syslog?) to the login prompt, making the text login page VERY difficult to fake. For now, I'm exactly where I wanted to be. And as my eyes age, I can tweak the GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x1024 line in my /etc/grub/grub.cfg file to a lower resolution, make the text larger, and continue to login. I prefer EYE CRUTCHES to eye candy. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected]
