elementary OS User Handbook
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  • 🔵Welcome to elementary OS
  • Overview
    • 📘Idea & Evolution
    • 📘Desktop Tour
      • 📖Greeter
      • 📖Panel
      • 📖Dock
      • 📖App Windows
      • 📖Multitasking
    • 📘System Idiosyncrasies
      • 📖Gestures
      • 📖Hot Corners
      • 📖Picture-in-Picture
      • 📖Display Filters
      • 📖Feedback App
      • 📖Missing Habits
  • Get Started
    • 📗Install elementary OS
      • 📖Writing ISO with Etcher
      • 📖Using GParted
    • 📗Explore System Settings
      • 📖Manage User Accounts
      • 📖Control System Access
      • 📖Set up Date & Time
      • 📖Configure Network
      • 📖Add Online Accounts
      • 📖Stay Secure & Private
      • 📖Adjust Power Settings
      • 📖Set Language & Formats
      • 📖Keyboard Settings
      • 📖Mouse & Touchpad
    • 📗Customize Desktop
      • 📖Set up Visual Style
      • 📖Change Wallpaper
      • 📖Adjust Text Size
      • 📖Configure Dock & Panel
      • 📖Windows and Corners
    • 📗Plug in Hardware
      • 📖Connect via Bluetooth
      • 📖Printers & Scanners
      • 📖Hook up Tablet
  • Best Practices
    • 📙Tips & Tricks
      • 📖Add PPAs
      • 📖Get More Tweaks
      • 📖Max the AppCenter Out
      • 📖Add More Fonts
      • 📖Make QT apps look like GTK
    • 📙2 Advanced
      • 📖Open as Admin
      • 📖Create Local Network
      • 📖Plank Advanced Customization
  • Troubleshooting
    • 📕Installation Issues
    • 📕Common Issues
      • 📖Grub menu 30 sec
      • 📖Nvidia Drivers
      • 📖Double Icons in Plank
      • 📖Sound and Picture Issues
      • 📖Ghost Updates
  • Extra Info
    • 📒Useful Links
    • 📒Feedback
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  • Greeter System Indicators
  1. Overview
  2. Desktop Tour

Greeter

Locked but capable

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Last updated 1 year ago

When you are just going to log in to the system, or you logged out, the Greeter is what you can see on your monitor. It's not really rich in functions, because it's like a regardful guardian with primary mission to welcome you, and protect your system from intruders.

Log in

Enter your password to log in to the system.

Mind the CapsLock and Numlock. If either of them is on, you will be informed with a message beneath the password field.

Select from Multiple Accounts

If there are more than one user accounts on the computer, you can see individual cards for them in a horizontal card layout. Use the left/right arrow buttons on the keyboard to select and enter the system under a certain account.

Greeter System Indicators

The following system indicators can be available:

  • Session — with options to suspend, shut down, or restart

  • Power — shows battery charge and gives the option to adjust brightness

  • Network — with options to connect to available network, and VPN if configured beforehand

  • Bluetooth — you can turn it on/off, and select from paired devices

  • Keyboard layout — only displayed if two or more layouts are added

  • Universal access — includes the Screen Reader and Onscreen Keyboard switchers

You can , and change passwords in the System Settings (User Accounts). Mind that some settings require administrator rights to be changed.

In the top-right of the Greeter, you can see the System Indicators same as . There are not as many of them as on the desktop, and their functionality is limited to the very basics.

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manage user accounts
those on your desktop
Greeter
Greeter with Multiple Accounts