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

[Phil Turmel]

FWIW, I run KDE on Xorg on Debian 12 Bookworm.  Xorg is required for 
Nvidia (don't hate me, it is System76) to properly handle all possible 
external monitor options and their swapping operations.  (I use 
thunderbolt heavily.)


On 9/18/25 22:39, William Wylde via Ale wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     <snark alert>systemd</snark>
> 
>     Clearly something auto updated and mis-selected. That is crappy.
> 
>     -- 
>     James P. Kinney III
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> 
>     On Thu, Sep 18, 2025, 6:59 PM William Wylde via Ale <ale at ale.org
>     <mailto: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?