Ubuntu 14.04 ¿how may I change the lightdm greeter?

Asked by JoseLuisTriana

Some days ago I installed Kubuntu 14.04 on a fresh install in my desktop, I'm too happy of its performance and gui appereance as well, but today (the day I made this question) I decided to install Unity desktop and did it...

So the installation was ok, but now I have the Unity greeter, that lacks of something that makes it look like a windows 95 greeter, it looks ugly but I like too much the kde greeter, and I prefer to conserve the kde greeter in the screen...

I know I have installed both but I can't find a way to revert the configuration in order to have the kde greeter back on screen insted of the ugly unity-greeter.

I tried looking for the /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf but that file is not there now in this version of Ubuntu.

So, how do I choose the greeter that I want?.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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Try:

sudo apt-get --reinstall install kdm

Unity is not a desktop, it is a shell for Gnome.

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JoseLuisTriana (theunfor) said :
#2

There is no way to use the kde-greeter, then?

Installing kdm is not a solution for me, thanks.

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JoseLuisTriana (theunfor) said :
#4

Thank you but I tried that before; but in Ubuntu 14.04, I think the things are different, lightdm does not honor anymore that file...

There is not a lightdm-set-defaults executable anymore... and in the relesae notes of Ubuntu 14.04 this change about lightdm is not there.

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JoseLuisTriana (theunfor) said :
#5

#3 solved my problem today, I don't know how, but before I tried with the /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf file, but didn't worked, but now works...

In that file you should put:

[SeatDefaults]
greeter-session=GREETER_YOU_WANT

GREETER_YOU_WANT may be replaced with "lightdm-kde-greeter", "unity-greeter", "lightdm-gtk-greeter", without quotes and depends on the name of the greeter you want to use.

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JoseLuisTriana (theunfor) said :
#6

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.