Plasma a a systemwide environment (Mageia 9)

[cogidis]

Hello,

I chose a runlevel 3 on purpose, and when I type

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startx

, it starts a minimal dekstop environment that looks like xfce, although xfce-task is not installed.

I run

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startx startkde

, it starts plasma without any problem.

The same, obviously with

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alias startx="/usr/bin/startx startkde"

in /etc/profile.

It also works, user by user with a .xinitrc :

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echo "exec startkde">~/.xinitrc

But what is the normal procedure to choose plasma as a system wide environment ? I tried :

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DESKTOP=KDE
DISPLAYMANAGER=sddm


in /etc/sysconfig/desktop, but it does not help at all.

Thanks for your help !

[doktor5000]

Hi there, startx is deprecated and should not be used anymore.

Also, the desktop session is not called KDE anymore but Plasma, have a look at the respective xsession files.
Normally in the display manager the most recently selected session is used. Depending on the display manager you can also configure the default session. Check /etc/sddm.conf

[doktor5000]

Hallo Doktor5000 !

Thanks for your answer.

If startx is deprecated, what is it replaced by ? It is is a server that boots without a graphical environment. I do not want to type "init 5" either, I would like to remain in runlever 3 an whenever needed, to launch X with Plasma.

So I am not sure that /etc/sddm.conf will help a lot, sddm is used in runlevel 5 if I am not mistaken. Here it is anyway :

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InputMethod=

[Users]
HideShells=/sbin/nologin,/bin/false,/usr/sbin/nologin,/bin/true
HideUsers=mysql,apache,mldonkey
RememberLastSession=true
RememberLastUser=true

In /etc/sysconfig/desktop, if I change "KDE" by "plasma" or "PLASMA", the behaviour is the same.

Here is the content of /usr/share/xsessions :

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-rw-r--r--   1 root root  3222 juin  10 17:32 01plasma.desktop
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  1378 mai   18  2023 icewm.desktop
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  3333 mai   18  2023 icewm-session.desktop

After all, there was icewin left, and not xfce ! I uninstalled it but the situation remains the same. Any ideas ?

[doktor5000]

sddm is used in runlevel 5 if I am not mistaken.

sddm will switch you to runlevel 5

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systemctl start sddm

Also once you run X you're not in runlevel 3 anymore