How do I make GDM the default display manager?

Question

I believe my question says what I am trying to achieve.

Steps I tried to make gdm my default display manager:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure than select gdm as my default.
Edit /etc/X11/default-display-manager and change its content to
```
/usr/sbin/gdm
```

After the above two steps I logged out myself and after that when I see my login screen it still shows lightdm as my display manager.

What am I doing wrong here.?

score 22 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 15 '12 at 16:50

You seem to have configured gdm correctly, but you did not actually stop lightdm. Logging out doesn't stop it.

After doing sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm, you need to stop lightdm

sudo service lightdm stop

and start gdm

sudo service gdm start

Hope this helps.

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