Re: kde install broke login screen manager

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 01:21:10 -0700
Michael <mepolite@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I restarted X and was able to choose KDE from the Sessions menu and log in
normally. Logging out presented my normal login screen.

I'm not quite clear as to whether you selected "gdm" or "kdm" as your
login screen ( "display manager") I assume you selected "kdm"...

After booting into
WXP to handle some quick video re-encoding business, and rebooting into
Ubuntu I was presented with the Kubuntu login screen.

Looks like you have kdm then...

Logging in however
took me to my standard GNOME desktop. System > Admin* > Login Screen Setup
hangs and then goes away.

Right - that config utility applies to gdm (gnome's login manager), not
kdm:
- and from your description it sounds like you selected kdm when you
installed kubuntu-desktop. Thus the config utility in gnome is not going to
"work"
- it has no *dm to configure. ( Well, gdm is probably still in your cache,
so you could reinstall it, if you prefer it to kdm )

If you want to configure "kdm" I would suggest you type

kcontrol

in your terminal, and look for System Administration -> Login Manager

I'm sure the problems are deeper, but I'd like to
remove my KDE dependency if possible.

I've tried
sudo apt-get removel kubuntu-desktop
but no joy.

"kubuntu-desktop" is a metapackage ( a list of dependencies, if you like )
- thus removing it does not remove KDE . You don't actually need to remove
KDE/Kubuntu unless you really want that - just choose whichever session you
are in the mood for from the login screen sessions. :-)

Peter

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