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Durhammer

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Registered: 2025-01-28

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How do I get rid of LXQt???? [SOLVED]

Somewhere along the line, I thought I'd like to try LXQt, so I installed it. BIG MISTAKE. Now I'm puzzled as to how to get rid of it. I don't see a meta-package to try to undo what I have wrought.

I had a nice Openbox configuration working. For what seemed to be good reasons, I decided to get rid of Mate Terminal (having qterminal xterm, ux, term, konsole, whatever else), and in doing so, something else was removed and prompted the choice of DMs (sddm or tde-whatever). After doing that, for whatever reason, in future logins, I was presented by a terminal login screen, not a DM. I finally realized I had to start a DM, so after terminal logging in, I ran sudo sddm. That got me the DM login screen and the display manager/desktop stuff back, BUT -- now I had this stupid LXQt DE back cluttering up the place. DO NOT LIKE.

So I'm IN it, how do I get RID of it? I suppose I could go back to the SDDM screen and choose openbox to log in, but the matter of getting rid of LXQt once and for all remains. Do I have to remove each "lxqt-*" program in turn or in masse?

UPDATE: Okay, NEVERMIND!   I did it the painstaking way, as apparently the original metapackage wasn't available. At least now, it's gone, gone, GONE.

Last edited by Durhammer (2025-07-15 17:41)

Durhammer

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Registered: 2025-01-28

Posts: 230

Re: How do I get rid of LXQt???? [SOLVED]

Forgot to give a big shout-out THANKS to @q4osteam for the info in one of my previous posts for doing the "sudo dpkg-reconfigure sddm" to get the DM back in place when I had the naked terminal login.