[ale] Weird window-manager shenanigans on debian 12...

[Jim Kinney]

<snark alert>systemd</snark>

Clearly something auto updated and mis-selected. That is crappy.

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On Thu, Sep 18, 2025, 6:59 PM William Wylde via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> I recently migrated to a debian environment, and have been happily using
> lxqt as my desktop.  Last night when I went to bed, it was still my
> desktop.  This morning, when I got up- suddenly the only desktop available
> to me was gnome.
>
> Now, I hate gnome.  You may have other opinions, and that's fine.  But I
> hate it.
>
> I have my lxqt session files in /usr/share/xsessions, I have an .xinitrc
> in my home directory which should run lxqt no matter what- but the only
> options in sddm and the only session which will run after telinit 2 /
> startx is gnome.  What could possibly be wrong?  I've never encountered
> this before on any linux distro.
>
> Anybody have a clue?
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