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 a little funny - when left for some time, they lock out asking for password, but there's no way to switch user (i.e. there's a small window asking for password with Ok and Cancel buttons - no Switch User, Shutdown, Suspend or anything).
Pressing Ctrl-Alt-F[something] shows a text log, where I can see a message "Not starting KDM because it's not the default manager" - so I think my problem can be fixed by making it default.
How can I do this?
(actually, trying to switch user via K-menu - Leave - Switch user results in the same dialog: "The session was locked by sergey, please enter your password")
3 Answers
Reconfiguring
With the Debian and the Debian based (K/X/L/ubuntu) you could use the dpkg-reconfigure.
man dpkg-reconfigure: NAME dpkg-reconfigure - reconfigure an already installed package SYNOPSIS dpkg-reconfigure [options] packages DESCRIPTION dpkg-reconfigure reconfigures packages after they have already been installed. Pass it the names of a package or packages to reconfigure. It will ask configuration questions, much like when the package was first installed...That is:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure kdmor
sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdmor ...
Kubuntu & LightDM
The LightDM is :
There was a plan:
QLightDM:
With the Oneiric the Kubuntu desktop is depending the KDM:
3please have a look at the following file:
/etc/X11/default-display-managerThere you can change to kdm.
1Solution that doesn't require root access
Make a file ~/.xinitrc:
# makes a kde a default desktop after `startx':
exec startkdeAlso make ~/.xsession:
# makes a kde a default desktop after `xdm':
exec startkde
