I use the Fedora display manager to login, which probably means GDDM. I believe in the lower right corner of the screen, prior to being logged in, there is a dropdown that allows selection of the desktop environment. If I had Xfce installed I would expect it to be one of the options there, along with Gnome and KDE/Plasma. Once selected the choice is maintained.
I don't have experience with SDDM. On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM Ben Koenig <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday, April 14th, 2025 at 11:04 AM, Rich Shepard < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 14 Apr 2025, Ben Koenig wrote: > > > > > Ah Ha! That explains a lot. since runlevel 4 is set, when you restart > > > slackware will automatically launch sddm, which is the display manager > for > > > KDE. Jonathan was probably right at the beginning of this thread since > in > > > runlevel 4 all that xinitrc stuff will be ignored. > > > > > > Ben/Jonathan: > > > > I learned something new here. > > > > > So for this laptop, ignore xwmconfig and just use the dropdown menu > from > > > the bottom-left-hand side of the login screen. > > > > > > The bottom-left has the KDE, System settings, and Dolphin (network) > icons. > > The KDE icon brings up all the menus and I found nothing in there to > change > > the DE. > > > > Which icon should allow me to change the dE? > > > > > It should remember your setting here. > > > > > > Time will tell. :-) > > > > Thanks, > > > > Rich > > Sounds like you are already logged in. You want to do this from the login > screen before typing in your password. Either select the "log out" option > from the K menu or just reboot the laptop. > > > -Ben >
