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

[Darly]

First, go to Home Depot and buy some RoundUp.

Next try something like this:

sudo apt remove --purge gnome

If that doesn't work, use the RoundUp.
If it works, take the RoundUp back to HD and get your money back.

If that doesn't work, a real heavy ballpeen hammer? Or, just run it over with your car; or leave it on an entry lane for I-85 around 6:30am; or take it over to your city dump on the day the day they are "compacting" every thing.

After all, you said you hate gnome. Some of these suggestions may help assuage a cranky attitude.

Daryl from the Old Country

On Thursday, September 18th, 2025 at 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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