I was playing around with the different Window Managers and I ended up uninstalling the default login screen (I think) How can I reinstall that without reinstalling the whole distro?
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The default Ubuntu login screen is called lightdm
. Chances are it's still installed, so you can just do sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
to re-select it. If it isn't installed, just run sudo apt-get install lightdm
and then the command above. If you want to uninstall the other login screen (really a display manager), write down the other choices that show up when you run the reconfigure command.
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followed your dirrections but now when I get to the login screen all I get is the blank gray background. The desktop backgrounds of the various users do not appear. How do I fix that?– JasonAug 28, 2015 at 17:04
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Hmm. Enter a TTY (ctrl+alt+f1), log in and try
sudo apt-get install -f
and thensudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
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