Re: [opensuse] SOLVED Plasma5 no longer available on login

On 2020-04-20 8:03 p.m., Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Darryl Gregorash [04-20-20 21:45]:

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I had to restart the desktop today because of a minor problem with menus. Now, Plasma is no longer an option at login. The default session is now IceWM, which is a loathsome thing, to say the least (no offence intended to anyone who actually likes it).

/usr/share/xsessions/plasma5.desktop seems to have disappeared from my system in an update on April 12 -- the last appearance of plasma5.desktop in any snapshot is dated April 7, and I have not logged out/in since the last kernel update about 23 days ago. I checked the Plasma5 packages for any occurrence of "plasma5.desktop", thinking a forced refresh would restore the file. However, that file is is not in any of these packages.

How do I get Plasma5 back as my default window manager, and make sure this does not happen again?

you may still have /usr/share/xsessions/plasma5.desktop which you can copy or link below ~/Desktop/

and/or reinstall/force plasma5-session-5.18.4.1-1.1.noarch

noone can "make sure" it does not happen again, *you* are in control.

As I mentioned, the file in /usr/share/xsessions had disappeared. I had to re-install plasma5-session. I have a good idea when/why that disappeared off my system -- must have been when I dumped Network-Manager and reverted to wicked. Anyway, the only version of plasma5-session is the original 5.12.(something) from the main repository -- but no problem, it works and that is all I care about. TYVM for your help/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org