I don't believe either lightdm or kdm try to kill themselves when uninstalled.
As implemented, this feature was broken anyway as gdm doesn't always run on :0 so personally, I've had my X session killed when uninstalling gdm sometimes. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1055359 Title: GDM package fails to uninstall if GDM not running To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/1055359/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs