Seeing 2 Different Login Screens (Mint 18)

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Seeing 2 Different Login Screens (Mint 18)

Post by Slouch »

Hi there,

I'm wondering why, when booting Mint 18 Cinnamon, sometimes a small square login screen appears with a drop-down menu on top, and other times I get a full-width login screen with an image background.

It seems to be random when each screen appears.

Any help is appreciated!

Regards,
Scott
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Re: Seeing 2 Different Login Screens (Mint 18)

Post by MintyO »

Due to the random nature, I'd say it's a symptom of the same bug that's causing the autologin to fail for many users - myself included. Just a guess though.
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Re: Seeing 2 Different Login Screens (Mint 18)

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What you show are 2 different login screen themes. I did not encounter until now the situation, where the theme changes on its own.

Open the login screen settings and see, which theme is selected in the settings.
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Re: Seeing 2 Different Login Screens (Mint 18)

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Cosmo. wrote:What you show are 2 different login screen themes. I did not encounter until now the situation, where the theme changes on its own.

Open the login screen settings and see, which theme is selected in the settings.
Mint-X (Default Linux Mint theme) is selected.

Apparently, it alternates between Mint-X and GTK (No theme).
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Re: Seeing 2 Different Login Screens (Mint 18)

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Mh, that is the default.

Try this: switch to another theme and then back to the default theme. Watch, if this helps.
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Re: Seeing 2 Different Login Screens (Mint 18)

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Cosmo. wrote:Mh, that is the default.

Try this: switch to another theme and then back to the default theme. Watch, if this helps.
The theme still randomly switches to GTK, and back to Mint-X after selecting another theme, and re-selecting Mint-X.
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Re: Seeing 2 Different Login Screens (Mint 18)

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As I already wrote, I did never see such a behavior. Also I cannot remember having ever read about this issue before. Further more I am out of an idea, what happens here.

How old is the system?
Did you encounter this behavior from the beginning or when did it start to behave so? What system changes did you do shortly before it happened?
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