When I was setting up or installing CachyOS I decided to download COSMIC alongside KDE Plasma (which I set up as my DE). Though when I rebooted, COSMIC was the Default DE, though the DE I move forward with can be changed in the login menu.

My questions are:

  • How can I change the default DE?
  • How can I delete DEs?
  • How can I add them if I want to use them in the future?
  • RanzigFettreduziert@feddit.org
    4·
    8 months ago

    At first make sure cosmic is really installed. Select it at the Login Screen and login. Then take a look at the config file for your desktop manager. Is it sddm, try:

    sudo nano /etc/sddm.conf.d/autologin.conf

    Then change Session to cosmic

    [Autologin]
User=john
Session=cosmic

    DE will be deleted with pacman, try this for kde:

    sudo pacman -Rns plasma kde-applications

    To install a DE use pacman, try this for xfce:

    sudo pacman -S xfce4 xfce4-goodies

    I hope this will help.