Changing the login screen GUI

[chris-harry]

ok, it boots up fine, and gets to the login screen just find... but, it is the gnome GUI style, and i dont want it to be... so, how can i change it so its the debian style of GUI?

hopefully its plain and simple?

[Vash]

Sorry, but could you either post a screenshot of it? or explain in a little more detail. What display manager are you using? GDM?

[ToastedToad]

In gnome:

Applications>SystemTools>Login Screen Setup.

[chris-harry]

ok... i asked that terribly... sorry... was rushing... didnt get to ask the question properly...

when it finally finishes booting up, we all know that I will reach a login screen... I want to change the login manager from the one which i am using now which look like a gnome style login manager to another one...

i couldnt get a screen shot of the login screen itself, the button itself is broken... so i did the next best thing...
thats the picutre of what it looks like... i dont want to use that login manager i want to use another one, and i have tried remove gnome (threw apt-get remove gdm), but it makes the matter worse...

please help...

hopefully i have asked even better then before... i know, i made hardly any sence before... sorry

[chris-harry]

please ignore the rvb in the background....

[sether]

thats the picutre of what it looks like... i dont want to use that login manager i want to use another one, and i have tried remove gnome (threw apt-get remove gdm), but it makes the matter worse...

How so?

Install another login manager such as KDM, for example, and run

# dpkg-reconfigure kdm

which will let you make it the default. Then remove GDM with

# dpkg -P gdm

Restart X.

[IsaacKuo]

If you don't already have kdm installed, it's really easy. Just use:

apt-get install kdm

I don't remember whether the install asks whether you want to make it the default login manager. Either it asks and you say "yes", or it just goes and makes it default without asking. In either case, it's super easy.

I think that merely restarting X wasn't enough to kill gdm and startup kdm. I simply rebooted.

[chris-harry]

finally did it, i was running apt-get install, and it said there were some problems, so i ran apt-get install -f, and it fixed it, then it asked me which gui i wanted to use at the login screen... and now... its fixed, thank-you all for your help... i'm a happy banana...