KDE Display Manager (KDM) is a program that provides Kubuntu's graphical login screen.
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How to use KDM instead of lightdm in Kubuntu [duplicate]
I need to configure KDM by system settings, because lightDM is not working any more (I don't know why, just stopped working), so, is there any way to do it?
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ATI Radeon Mobility 4200 - Display Manager Crashes When USB Devices Are Removed [closed]
I installed Kubuntu 12.10 on my Toshiba Satellite with a USB device as a dual boot system. I have an ATI Mobility 4200 series graphics card, and I followed the instructions to install the drivers for ...
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KDE overrides lightdm logon screen [duplicate]
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How do I install KDE and retain LightDM as a login manager?
I upgraded my KDE desktop and suddenly it overrode many parts of unity user interface such as menus, icons, ...
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Hide users from login screen on Kubuntu 12.10
This question is a 2 part question (I know there is already a question on GDM):
When I create a new user that person shows up on the login screen for Kubuntu 12.10 however I would like to hide that ...
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Problem with LightDM & KDM
I'm a Kubuntu 12.10 x86_64 user.
I recently found an exquisite KDM theme on (name of KDE artwork site).
However, as the default display manager in Kubuntu is LightDM, I installed KDM with:
sudo ...
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Trouble after Ubuntu 12.10 upgrade
Over night I tried to upgrade to (k)ubuntu 12.10. Unfortunately kdm (neither lightdm) doesn't show up after boot. I found several posts describing errors due to the migration from kdm to lightdm. Some ...
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Window manager not working
When upgrading Kubuntu from 12.04 to 12.10 I agreed to stop the kdm daemon and now I can't get any window manager to initialize. I do however still have my Burg boot screen. So now how do I finish my ...
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Kubuntu 12.04 - Failed to load session 'gnome'
Since the upgrade from Kubuntu 11.10 to 12.04, everytime I want to log in the computer starts doing something and then the message
Failed to load session 'gnome'
appears with the button ...
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personalize session list on (KDM|GDM|LightDM|some_other)
A bit of an odd question:
I want to change the list of sessions available on (KDM|GDM|LightDM|some_other) to a user, without affecting the sessions available to others.
Specifically, I have one user ...
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Lost option to use KDE after an update - how to bring it back without losing configuration
After running an update on Monday, on a Kubuntu 12.04 box, I've lost the option to select KDE in the login screen (there was a message that read approximately "option kde* has been removed"). Only ...
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How do I set a default user for KDE password prompt?
I have multiple users on my machine and every time a KDE service asks for a password it contains list of users but the current one is not selected by default.
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Why is one keyboard controlling both seats in my multiseat config?
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit, stock install with minimal additional software
I'm trying to get a multiseat X setup going... two separate keyboard/mouse/monitor sets on one PC. I used this document for ...
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Make KDM and Unity play nice?
LightDM is having some bad issues with my mouse and the xserver and whatnot, so I decided to switch to KDM for now, yet another problem arose from the mess: My Gnome keyring never gets unlocked by ...
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How can I make KDM unlock my GDM keyring?
I want KDM as my default display manager badly for my Ubuntu machine because LightDM is having problems with the xserver, but I can't use KDM unless I want to constantly get those messages saying that ...
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KDM Login manager wallpapers
Just tinkering with KDM and having some trouble with theming. I've downloaded the beatiful zxcity theme and set it as my theme for the KDM login, problem is the wallpaper switches back during load.
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Can only login through console, not login manager [closed]
This ones really bugging me. Im not sure what happened exactly but I cant seem to login to kubuntu 12.04 through KDM. Only by selecting the console login and starting xserver manually. Then it boots ...
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Username hidden on the Unity panel after login through kdm [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to get username back on the Unity panel?
Installed kdm and used it as default.
After i login into unity through kdm i do not see my username.But if i go back to ...
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How to get username back on the Unity panel?
Installed kdm and used it as default.
After i login into unity through i do not see my username.But if i go back to using lightdm, i have no problems.
Anyone knows how to use kdm as default and ...
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Message “Call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full?). Check your installation?” displayed in X before KDM
This has started to happen after I encrypted my home folder (this was done after the installation, not as a part of it)... This was in 11.10.
I have since upgraded to 12.04 and after first reboot ...
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Log in manager doesn't appear after editing /etc/X11/default-display-manager
I have ubuntu 11.10 , and I installed kde and I choosed kdm mistakly, as mentioned here I did this procedure
Pretty simple. Open the file /etc/X11/default-display-manager with your editor of ...
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Kubuntu Login Theme Installer Crash [closed]
I am using Kubuntu 11.10 and want to be able to show the user list on the login screen so that anyone else in my family who uses this computer will be able to see which user to log in as (I have two ...
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Macbook Pro 8.1 Keyboard Backlight on Ubuntu 11.04 With KDE
Can anyone tell me how to enable my keyboard's backlight? It works fine using gdm and Unity. I recently installed kde 4.6.5 and started using kdm, everything works fine as in unity, only my keyboard's ...
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How to install a package in recovery mode?
I was using Ubuntu 11.10 and installed the KDE Desktop and I was happy with that. But I wanted to get my old login screen back so I removed the package kdm. When I boot my PC now, it keeps booting and ...
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How do I set up autologin on KDM-config when my home directory is encrypted? [closed]
How do I set up autologin on kdm-config when my home directory is encrypted?
If I just activate on kde settings' login manager I get an error and X server crashes. I tried updating, but still the ...
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Kubuntu - cannot change fonts and widget style under sudo after upgrade to 11.10
I have a problem with fonts, appearance of GTK and KDE-based applications and cursors in Kubuntu 11.10 after upgrade from 11.04.
I want all of my applications, both GTK and KDE, under sudo and under ...
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Make KDM the default display manager
I'm giving KDE another try - so far so good. I installed everything using apt-get install kubuntu-desktop. During the installation it asked me which login manager to use and I chose LightDM - however, ...
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Keyboard Layout resets on every startup
I want to use "German, no dead keys" (as "tot" as the layout. Whenever I log into KDE from KDM, I get the regular "German" keyboard. In other questions here I read that you have to switch the keyboard ...
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Why use a Display manager?
I'm currently trying to free as much memory as possibile because I'm using my laptop for scientific simulations. One of the things I made is disable gdm and using login+startx to start GNOME session. ...
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How do I prevent KDM from starting at boot?
I would like to stop kdm from starting when my computer boots up. Is there a way to do that? kdm is my only graphical login program, I do not use gdm or xdm.
