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
