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

[William Wylde]

Yeah, I think I've figured out what happened.  Something "updated" and set
wayland as the default graphical UI system.  LXQT is broken under wayland.
Nothing seems to work under Xorg anymore.

I just installed KDE.  I'm tired of messing with it.  And it imported my
LXQT desktop settings with no problem... so wayland it is, I guess.
dag-nabbit.

On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> <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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