This is exactly the problem I'm having that I reported here (sorry for the duplicate): https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kcontrol- kdmtheme/+bug/157086
I also tried editing my "/etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc" and I was then able to get the kdm themes to work. Without doing that, no love. Here are my 20' and 30' default settings files from /etc/default/kdm.d $ cat 20_kubuntu_default_settings USETHEME="true" THEME="/usr/share/apps/kdm/themes/kubuntu" USEBACKGROUND="true" WALLPAPER="/usr/share/wallpapers/kubuntu-wallpaper.png" USESYSTEMLOCALE="true" $ cat 30_kubuntu_default_settings THEME="/usr/share/apps/kdm/themes/Human" USEBACKGROUND="true" USESYSTEMLOCALE="true" USETHEME="true" WALLPAPER="/usr/share/wallpapers/kubuntu-wallpaper.png" I also tried sudo kcmshell kdmtheme and here are the results: $ sudo kcmshell kdmtheme Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-jwheaton" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0. -- kdmtheme module can not apply changes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148706 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs