[SOLVED] KDM - Remove distro drop down items

[pmbpmb]

Hello . . .

I am using 14.04 and since I will probably move up shortly, I am starting to experiment. The old adage, "If it works - leave it alone" is appropriate here.

I have been installing with Synaptic other distros alongside Kubuntu, trying them out and uninstalling them. Unfortunately my learning seems to have left a trail. The KDM login screen has about eight or nine distros in the drop down menu that are no longer installed. Clicking on them produces nothing.

I checked for the distros and they are not installed. I cannot find the config file for the list. I tried other logins such as GDM and LightDM but they also use the same config file.

Can anyone offer a solution?

Thanks.

[elijathegold]

Do you mean that you have installed different desktops (Xfce, Gnome, Mate etc) and want to clean up the Lightdm menu? In such a case:

cd /usr/share/xsessions
sudo rm gnome.desktop

The gnome.desktop is just an example.

If you mean you have been installing different distros (Ubuntu, Fedora, Mageia etc) then simply run

sudo update-grub

[pmbpmb]

elijathegold thank you

Your first option solved the problem.

Almost everything that I experimented with was in there.

Thanks again.

[vinnywright]

elijathegold thank you

Your first option solved the problem.

Almost everything that I experimented with was in there.

Thanks again.

next time you remove somthing that may have some configs laying around use the --purge option as well ,,,,this will remove such things.

like

sudo apt-get remove --purge xfce

synaptic offers this option as well .

VINNY

[pmbpmb]

vinnywright Thank You

I appreciate the information.