I’ve been using i3 for the last few months but I miss some of the creature comforts of KDE. How do I switch back to KDE as it comes out of the EOS box without doing a clean install? I’d like to keep all of my data and installed apps if possible.
eos-packagelist --install KDE-Desktop
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I’ve done that but I still boot into i3. Do I need to configure anything else?
Try: sudo systemctl enable --force sddm
Reboot.
When you get back to the login screen, you should be able to choose your login session at the bottom left.
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In your display manger/login manager you will have to chose the plasma desktop when you login.
This worked, however I can’t do anything at the KDE login screen. My mouse and keyboard don’t work.
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Switch back to lightdm following the same pattern in the command line above.
See if your mouse and keyboard works there.
You should be able to type/choose your username and then from a menu ( a gear icon?) choose the session you want to log into.
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OK so switching back to lightdm and selecting KDE at the login screen works. I’m going to try switching back to sddm now and see what happens.
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OK, so I booted to a terminal, switched back to lightdm and picked KDE on the i3 login. The mouse and keyboard worked, so I re-enabled sddm, rebooted and the mouse and keyboard have worked ever since. Not sure if it was a driver issue?
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