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zerophase

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Registered: 2015-09-03

Posts: 239

lightdm and Cinnamon just have a black screen in virtual box.

I can't seem to get lightdm or Cinnamon to start up correctly. I can however get LXDE and LXDM to work, in VBox. I've tried enabling and disabling 3d acceleration, and I have the vbox-guest-utils installed. I'm pretty sure, I removed all of the NVidia drivers that I had installed initially in VirtualBox.

lightdm conf relevant bits:

[LightDM]
...
run-directory=/run/lightdm
...
[Seat:*]
...
greeter-session=lightdm-webkit2-greeter
session-wrapper=/etc/lightdm/Xsession

Here's my Xorg.0.log. I noticed that the wiki mentions enabling mulit-user.target, and removing xorg.conf, on top of other settings changes. Do I need to do that in the host or guest system? My guest system doesn't have an xorg.conf. Is there anything else I might need to do to get Cinnamon working?

boban_dj

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Registered: 2015-03-17

Posts: 150

Re: lightdm and Cinnamon just have a black screen in virtual box.

Try to comment

#greeter-session=lightdm-webkit2-greeter

zerophase

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Registered: 2015-09-03

Posts: 239

Re: lightdm and Cinnamon just have a black screen in virtual box.

I'll try that next time. It looks like it's a bug with alternate themes not working correctly with changes to lightdm-webkit2-greeter. It doesn't really effect me too badly, since once I log in the first time, I don't see the login screen on boot.