KDE Display Manager (KDM) is a program that provides Kubuntu's graphical login screen.
Questions tagged [kdm]
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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, now I'm finding user sessions (KDE) are behaving…
Sergey
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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. Apart from eye-candy and comfor, is there any…
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How to change the Desktop Manager
When I installed KDE Plasma in Ubuntu 15.04, I set the LightDM as the default manager, But I want to set KDM as the default, how can I change this?
Ґрадон Хатчінсон
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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS login manager
So here is the problem that I am having. I came back to Ubuntu from Manjaro linux and enjoy the beautiful design. I was always a fan of the login screen/manager for Ubuntu. It was very sleek looking but I'm not sure what the official name of it…
kyaustad
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How to reconfigure lightdm?
Last night I installed KDE. But then however my Desktop manager changed into KDM. How can I go back to my default Desktop manager lightdm??
opu 웃
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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 nothing happens.
How can I add the kdm package…
js-coder
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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.
rjh
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GDM and Lightdm don't work after update; KDM is ok
After updating Ubuntu (apt-get update, apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade) last Tuesday, GDM stopped working, and the startup hangs on the Ubuntu logo. Lightdm also don't work (same happens). If I start GDM manually from commandline, it opens…
Vinícius
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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 backlight on the Macbookpro 8.1 does not come…
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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 in the login screen, but apparently KDM does not…
Martin Ueding
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How to do unattended installation for packages which ask the same question?
I need to automate apt-get installation of kde-plasma-desktop which winds up installing both kdm and lightdm Display Managers.
I'm using debconf-set-selections prior to installation to set the following values:
# Default display manager:
# Choices:…
BobDoolittle
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upgrading from Ubuntu 14.04 to Kubuntu
I have an issue with installing KDE on my Ubuntu 14.04.
I executed
apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
And tried to remove unity
sudo apt-get autoremove --purge unity unity-common unity-services
unity-lens-\* unity-scope-\*…
Suic
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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 apt-get install kdm
Then, I did
sudo dpkg-reconfigure…
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Why is my ubuntu display manager doing this?
I rebooted my ubuntu machine and this happened with my display manager - the options on the sidebar jumbled together. How can I fix this?
Oneiros
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sddm xsetup location
I've been using vino (remote desktop access application) in 12.04 without any problem. I put an exec line in file /etc/kde4/kdm/Xsetup in order to start vino server when the kdm starts (like /usr/lib/vino/vino-server &).
Now I've installed 16.04 and…
