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Preface:
[I deleted some file together with my request to remove chrome in order to upgrade it as google recommended].
I used to login in cinnamon desktop (or to other desk environment i.e. genome of plasma that were available in the graphical login window)
The graphical login disappeared after I messed the system. I am able to text login after which I have to "xstart" , to be able to continue normally.
However, I can only login into Gnome. The cinnamon desktop is not available in this procedure.
[When I request "urpmi task cinnamon" it reports that cinnamon is installed already]
My questions:
1. How do I restore the graphical login window,?
2. How do I restore the cinnamon selection in the login window?
My system is: Mageia 8 (64b) dual boot. with windows 10.
Dual display

Please advice
JJF

MCC -> Boot -> Set up autologin
Make sure that the automatic start of graphic environment is ticked

MCC -> Boot -> Set up Display manger
Check that any of the boxes is ticked. Try to change the selection and see if control center tries to reinstall needed packages.

Make sure that gdm (for Gnome) and/or sddm (Plasma) is installed by running

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urpmi gdm sddm

If they are installed, make sure that you use a theme where you can chose between the different desktop environments (Gnome, Plasma, Cinnamon,...) as some of the themes are really bad designed.

And why in first place did you try to uninstall Chrome before updating? This no recommended method. Not even Google recommends that. See https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Installing_Google_Chrome_in_Mageia

Additionally if you remove Chrome, NO single other package gets removed. Your problem was not caused by uninstalling Chrome. But you marked another package for removal which removed some needed dependencies. This is not the first time that you managed to remove necessary files...https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=13831

When you remove a package and it marks additional packages for removal, you should carefully read the package descriptions to make sure that this won't happen again that you removed half of your system.

Thanks
I was unable to update chrome as the only available update package was a xxxx.deb
Anyway, as you suggested, I set xdm as the display manager and it fixed the problem
JJF