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sweet maple Jul 6, 2024, 9:08 PM

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Im a bit of a Linux noob just an fyi but whenever I switch my wm in the session tab on my login screen it just freezes up but I can still move my cursor around it just won’t log me in, any help would be most appreciated!

winged pawn Jul 6, 2024, 10:11 PM

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why is KDE involved in this?

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might need to remove SDDM and use a DM that works for your WM

sweet maple Jul 6, 2024, 11:19 PM

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Yeah I got you mind if you like dumb that down for me rq 😭

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And my bad for not responding I was cooking

sweet maple Jul 6, 2024, 11:20 PM

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winged pawn why is KDE involved in this?

Just felt like I should mention it you never know lol

winged pawn Jul 6, 2024, 11:38 PM

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Well the graphical login screen you see is called the display manager (DM). If you had KDE Plasma on the system originally, then it would have used SDDM as its display manager and that works great to login to KDE.

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But it may fail or not be compatible with another window manager or environment.

sweet maple Jul 7, 2024, 12:30 AM

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winged pawn Well the graphical login screen you see is called the display manager (DM). If ...

Yeah like I have been trying to switch over to Ragnar but like every time I do like I chose it in the session tab on my login screen it just freezes yk what I mean

winged pawn Jul 7, 2024, 1:06 AM

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watch some vids by Distrotube regarding switching window managers or desktop environments. I think there's a key thing to enable the new DM and disable or delete the old.

sweet maple Jul 7, 2024, 1:09 AM

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aye thanks man i got you i will tell you whati find

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Ok well I got some info so I can close out my current window manager and then start the startx command in the terminal but it only brings a black screen with a cursor?

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