Kubuntu upgrade

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2023 at 05:17, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
>
> AFAIK I did NOT have it installed before the upgrade. I was running
> Kubuntu with Plasma. Never installed or ran Cinnamon. It just showed up
> after the update, and was what booted up.

Gosh. Well, I can't imagine any scenario which would cause that -- but
reality always exceeds the imagination.

Maybe you'd installed some Cinnamon component, such as the Nemo file
manager or something, and it pulled in the rest as dependencies.

> My question was why did this happen with a *Kubuntu* update?

Well, as far as I know, it shouldn't!

> AFAIK I did NOT have >1 desktop installed before the update. Only used
> Plasma since initial install.

It's possible, with a modern computer, to just not notice.

I've installed a single smallish app which pulled in 200+ dependencies
before now, and if you're not careful, it can pull in much of a whole
software ecosystem.

> Using - systemctl status display-manager.service
> gives
> sddm.service - Simple Desktop Display Manager

There is some info on how to configure SDDM here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM

But as I said, I'd only resort to that if this sequence does not "stick" --

[1] Log out
[2] On the login screen, before you hit Return on your password,
change the desktop
[3] *Then* press return or click the button to log in
[4] Once your desired desktop opened successfully...
[5] Reboot

If you're lucky it should remember your last selection and log you in.
If you're not, you can set the desktop using the instructions on the
Arch Wiki, but *make sure it works FIRST!*


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