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I started with Ubuntu Karmic, and wanted to try KDE. So I installed kubuntu-desktop. Then I wanted to see how XFCE progressed, so I installed xfce4. I now have Kubuntu with an XFCE splash and login.

How do I (safely) purge XFCE and just have the Kubuntu splash / login screen, or am I stuck with frank-en-buntu?

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    I think you should edit the question to something like "How do I go back from XFCE to KDE?". The current question is too vague and informal, and honestly, every time I saw it in the homepage I just ignored it thinking it was something like "help me! I'm f***g crazy about Ubuntu and won't go back to Windows!!!!" :D
    – Ricardo Reyes
    Commented Jul 28, 2010 at 21:44

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Reset to default
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splash screen is configured by the alternatives system... you can get a list of available plymouth themes by doing: update-alternatives --list default.plymouth

You can then change the current plymouth theme by doing sudo update-alternatives --set default.plymouth /lib/plymouth/themes/kubuntu-logo/kubuntu-logo.plymouth

The alternative way of getting Kubuntu splash it to remove package xubuntu-plymouth-theme.

To change the login screen you can either run sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm and choose kdm as mentioned in another comment or remove gdm which should set kdm as default display manager.

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You can just switch back the display manager to use kdm using 

sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm

and then selecting kdm.

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  • kdm is the display manager, its the splash and login I'm trying to fix :)
    – Tim Post
    Commented Jul 28, 2010 at 19:58
  • Well, the display manager is actually what greets you, and asks for the login. I use this to switch between kdm, gdm and others. Is your gdm rather messed up? Then there's some system preferences app to select another theme maybe?
    – blueyed
    Commented Jul 28, 2010 at 23:21
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From a terminal:

sudo apt-get remove xfce4
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  • That will revert the splash screen as well as the login? I almost did that, but grew hesitant.
    – Tim Post
    Commented Jul 28, 2010 at 19:39
  • It probably should... I imagine that when the xfce4 package is removed, it restores the splash screen, etc. from before it was installed.
    – Nathan Osman
    Commented Jul 28, 2010 at 19:49
  • I also think you meant remove , not uninstall?
    – Tim Post
    Commented Jul 28, 2010 at 20:13
  • @Tim: He-he... my bad.
    – Nathan Osman
    Commented Jul 28, 2010 at 21:07
  • I'm skeptical...I removed xfce4 once, and I still saw the xfce4 shutdown screen every time I shutdown or restarted.
    – Chan-Ho Suh
    Commented Mar 3, 2012 at 8:32
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Also after you remove xfce and all other apps, reinstall ubuntu-desktop to make sure you get everything back

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  • -1 That will not bring back the Kubuntu splash screen as mentioned in the question.
    – Nathan Osman
    Commented Jul 28, 2010 at 21:44

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