<div dir="ltr"><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><snark alert>systemd</snark></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Clearly something auto updated and mis-selected. That is crappy.</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr">-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br><i><i><i><i><br></i></i></i></i>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.<br>
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain<br><i><i><i><i><br><a href="http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/</a><br></i></i></i></i></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 18, 2025, 6:59 PM William Wylde via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Now, I hate gnome. You may have other opinions, and that's fine. But I hate it.</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>Anybody have a clue?</div></div>
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