[Solved] Installed KDE Plasma Workstations Group, No Login Shell?

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I’m am not using kinote, its a non-atomic KDE plasma.

Your login manager is gdm I’m guessing?
I do have experience with how gdm works.

I think that if you switch to sddm you can login as gnome or plasma by picking from a menu on the login screen.

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Yes. Here’s my tree:

/usr/sbin/gdm
 \_ gdm-session-worker [pam/gdm-password]
     \_ /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session --register-session /usr/libexec/plasma-dbus-run-session-if-needed /usr/bin/startplasma-wayland
         \_ /usr/bin/startplasma-wayland/

sddm.service, et al, were installed during the general Plasma Workspaces group install, but switching to it as the login manager doesn’t do the business for me.

My Workstation install is also non-atomic.

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Maybe we can debug sddm that with you?

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If you have the patience for that, I’m willing to give that a go.

Thanks, again!

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So, I did the two simple commands:

sudo systemctl disable gdm
sudo systemctl enable sddm

and rebooted. This is the new tree.

 /usr/bin/sddm
  \_ /usr/libexec/sddm-helper --socket /tmp/sddm-auth-66825de9-586d-4ff2-8f41-33fd101b01ea --id 1 --start env GNOME_SHELL_SESSION_MODE=classic gnome-session --user jrredho
      \_ /usr/libexec/gnome-session-binary

I’m not seeing a way out of the Classic GNOME Desktop thing at the SDDM login prompt. There’s no gear to select from, and I have no Gnome-related environment variables in my .bash_profile or bashrc files. There is a file, /etc/environment, but it is empty.

I don’t know what more I can say at this point. I know that there are some sddm-related config files, but I’ve left them at their defaults for now.

Thanks, again!

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Ack! I didn’t notice before doing one more login with sddm as the graphical login mechanism, that you can actually make a selection on the page. It’s in the lower left corner of the page where the options “Classic GNOME…” sat. It turned out to be a selectable menu.

Et voila! Magic happened, and all the problems I was having were resolved.

Egad this affair does not make me feel good about my detective skills. :slight_smile:

Thanks again for hanging with me though this process!

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