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

[William Wylde]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 7:04 AM Phil Turmel via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> 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.)
>
>
>
Do you have any idea of which would handle a couple of headless tesla gpus
for LLMs/graphics?   I've been reading both Xorg and Wayland have to be
tweaked to handle that.  And that's the box I'm building right now...






> 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
> >     ////
> >     ////Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.
> >     What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a
> >     dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
> >     - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
> >     ////
> >     http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/ <http://
> >     heretothereideas.blogspot.com/>
> >     ////
> >
> >     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?
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