Seems to me like this thread could be a good topic for a presentation for
one of the PLUG sessions if anyone feels inspired. :)

On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 3:16 PM Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> On 2022-03-23 08:49, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 10:45 AM Brian Cluff wrote:
> >> Strictly speaking, yes you can install KDE and GNOME at the
> >> same time, but it can lead to the 2 desktops fighting for
> >> which desktop gets to handle settings on the other and which
> >> programs are the default as well as other quirks
>
> This seems like it shouldn't happen.  However, I really can't speak
> from personal experience here since I have said "Gnope!" to GNOME since
> it went systemd-required.
>
> > This is very true, I have found if both are installed SDM handles
> > this better than LightDM and GDM (Personal experience only)
>
> Did you mean sddm?  That is in x11-misc here, not part of KDE or GNOME,
> though it does depend on Qt and it's the default DM for KDE.  It has a
> set of text config files in /usr/share/xsession/ that determine what
> gets executed.  I currently have /etc/X11/Sessions/Xsession and
> /usr/bin/startplasma-x11 as available "what gets run after successful
> login" options.
>
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