{"id":4010,"date":"2014-09-28T14:46:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T14:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=4010"},"modified":"2014-09-28T14:46:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T14:46:45","slug":"ubuntu-1410-remove-guest-white-dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/09\/ubuntu-1410-remove-guest-white-dots\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 14.10: Remove Guest Session, White Dots From Login Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is a quick tutorial that shows you how to remove the Guest session and the white dots from Unity’s login screen in Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic.<\/p>\n

1. To remove the Guest session:<\/b><\/p>\n

Press Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, paste the command below and hit enter:<\/p>\n

sudo gedit \/usr\/share\/lightdm\/lightdm.conf.d\/50-ubuntu.conf<\/pre>\n
Type in your user password when it asks. Note that there’s no visual feed back when typing password.<\/p>\n
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As the picture shows, when the editor opens, add a new line into the end and save the file<\/p>\n
allow-guest=false<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That’s it. You won’t see the Guest next time Ubuntu boots up.<\/p>\n
2. To Remove white dots:<\/b><\/p>\n
There is a graphical tool dconf-editor<\/i><\/b> which provides options to change the login screen background and remove the white dots (draw grid).<\/p>\n
a.) To install dconf-editor, click the link below to bring up Ubuntu Software Center and click the install button:<\/p>\n
Click install dconf-editor<\/a><\/p>\n
b.) To configure Unity login screen, you need the lightdm<\/i><\/b> user privilege to launcher dconf-editor. To do so:<\/p>\n
Press Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> to open terminal. When it opens, run commands to get root privilege:<\/p>\n
sudo -i<\/pre>\n
Type in your user password when it asks.<\/p>\n
Allow user lightdm<\/b> to create a connection to the X server:<\/p>\n
xhost +SI:localuser:lightdm<\/pre>\n
Switch to user lightdm in this terminal window:<\/p>\n
su lightdm -s \/bin\/bash<\/pre>\n
Finally start dconf-editor:<\/p>\n
dconf-editor<\/pre>\n
c.) When the dconf-editor opens, navigate to com \u2013> canonical \u2013> unity-greeter<\/b> in left. Then disable the value for both draw-grid<\/b> and draw-user-backgrounds<\/b>.<\/p>\n
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Done. You’ll see the changes in next boot.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is a quick tutorial that shows you how to remove the Guest session and the white dots from Unity’s login screen in Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic. 1. To remove the Guest session: Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, paste the command below and hit enter: sudo gedit \/usr\/share\/lightdm\/lightdm.conf.d\/50-ubuntu.conf Type in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[27,672,1084],"class_list":["post-4010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-remove-guest-session","tag-remove-white-dots","tag-ubuntu-14-10"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}