Kubuntu upgrade

[rikona]

> 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.

Verrry interesting possibility. I explored several FMs, always looking
for my ancient friend Konqueror. :-)) I do believe I installed/used
Nemo. If this is a critical part of Cinnamon, maybe that's what
happened.

> > My question was why did this happen with a *Kubuntu* update?  
> 
> Well, as far as I know, it shouldn't!

Still, why did it boot up in Cinnamon? It was a *Kubuntu* update that
was running Plasma. :-) A thought - are dependencies brought in near
the end of the update? Perhaps that might have resulted in the Cinnamon
login?

> > 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!*

I will try this at some point. Still exploring Cinnamon. So far, for
me, it's about equal to Plasma. I might decide to keep it. I did note
that some sys stuff is run by Cinnamon now, and some still by the KDE
sys, so sys kinds of thing seems to be split up a bit. Could this kind
of split cause problems?

Thanks much!

Rik