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Role to install and default to KDE on PopOS #8

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billwheatley opened this issue Sep 9, 2020 · 4 comments
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Role to install and default to KDE on PopOS #8

billwheatley opened this issue Sep 9, 2020 · 4 comments
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Bring in Kubuntu KDE libs, keep GDM but default to KDE
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might be something as simple as

sudo apt install kubuntu-desktop

But need to double check login defaults, etc -- (it was never this easy on RHEL 7)

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billwheatley commented Dec 11, 2020 •
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Did a manual test pilots on some VMs, found a couple things:

  1. sudo apt install kubuntu-desktop is interactive, warns you about weak encryption and, notifies you about needing to pick a login managers, then ask which login manager you want. Not sure how Ansible would handle this, a little Googling for how to deal with that, didn't help.
  2. If you run the playbooks first, then run sudo apt install kubuntu-desktop the command fails after awhile however KDE did come up on reboot not sure what deeper issues that may cause but seemed okay
  3. This path worked out w/o error:
    1. Starting with a basic PopOS 20.10 fresh install vm
    2. sudo apt install kubuntu-desktop interactively choosing ssdm as the login manger
    3. Reboot
    4. Run the bootstrap script
    5. Run provisioning (with an updated package name for 20.10)

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NOTE a temporary procedure has been created using pre-pop-kde.sh to get kde on pop from a fresh install. This was introduced as part of PR #36

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similarities with issue #68
It looks like one question is here:

$ sudo debconf-show gdm3
* shared/default-x-display-manager: sddm
  gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3

$ sudo debconf-show sddm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: sddm
  sddm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/sddm

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