On 4/22/25 3:11 PM, Thierry de Coulon via tde-users wrote:
AFAIK there are some "things" in the Gnome Desktop that
As I mentioned I did not install GNOME but installed Cinnamon, which originally was derived from GNOME. Likely I am wrong, but I am guessing GNOME can't be installed in Devuan because GNOME has systemd dependencies. I recall some distro maintainers created various "shims" to help, but not important to me.
My main goal was to see how TDE interacts with multiple desktops installed.
a) seem to be installed anyway b) don't work well with TDE (I guess Gnome wants to remain in control)
I won't get into GNOME developers ideology and philosophy. I gave up on them a very long time ago.
Actually, if you want complete TDE "experience", you should use TDM-Trinity (while many other DM use lightdm). TDE will run on lightdm, but some things will be different (log out / shutdown for one).
By installing multiple desktops, lightdm, sddm, and tdm all were installed. During the initial install I selected sddm as the default because the ISO did not include TDE as an option. After later installing the tde-trinity mega package I changed to TDM. I haven't tinkered with seeing how TDE changes with each of the login managers.