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After installing kde, I had an ugly splash and login screen that I didn't like. I managed to get the splash back to normal, but I can't get the login back to normal.

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You can install another display manager such as LightDM, MDM, Slim, GDM

sudo apt-get install lightdm

select LightDM

sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm

You can add greeters to have nice themes How to change the LightDM theme/greeter?

There is also lightdm-kde-greeter mentioned here How do I install KDE and retain LightDM as a login manager?

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kenn
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for 13.10 or older

use the following command to set lightdm back to normal

sudo /usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm-set-defaults --greeter unity-greeter

reboot for the changes to take effect

This works for going from xubuntu and back to unity-greeter, ubuntustudio and back, and kubuntu back to unity-greeter as well.

14.04

There is no longer a /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf file and the set-defaults command is no longer available.

Taking a look at my old 13.10 files, I discovered what changes need to be made to select unity-greeter.

There needs to be a file named 50-unity-greeter.conf located in the directory /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d run the following commands to create and/or update this file to use the unity-greeter:

echo '[SeatDefaults]' | sudo tee /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-unity-greeter.conf
echo 'greeter-session=unity-greeter' | sudo tee -a /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-unity-greeter.conf

Don't forget to save any unsaved files before you restart lightdm because you will be logged out!!!

sudo service lightdm restart
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open the terminal crt - alt T and use the commnad chfn to add Real Name in /etc/passwd, open /etc/login.defs (as root) and look for the line containing CHFN_RESTRICT. Change whatever is followed to frwh. This will allow changing Real Name from KDE System Settings.

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