Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Plasma migration won't launch

[Mick]

On Sunday 15 May 2016 09:36:58 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 15 May 2016 07:52:33 +0100, Mick wrote:
> > On this PC there are two user accounts.  The user in question had in
> > their .bashrc:
> >
> > XSESSION="KDE-4"
> >
> > I guess I will need to change this to start plasma5, but what to?
>
> #XSESSION="KDE-4" should do it.

Thank you Neil, that's one of the first things I tried, but it still starts 
enlightenment.  I have the following in the Session drop down:

Enlightenment
Plasma
XSession
Plasma (Wayland)

No matter what I choose, I end up launching Enlightenment.

However, I set up .xinitrc for this user and then ran startx from a console.  
The *unbelievably* ugly Plasma5 started this time, so the problem must be with 
sddm.  According to its config file sddm is looking at 
/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsession, which is looking for Xsession scripts at:

xsessionddir="/etc/X11/Xsession.d"
OPTIONFILE=/etc/X11/Xsession.options
USERXSESSION=$HOME/.xsession
USERXSESSIONRC=$HOME/.xsessionrc
ALTUSERXSESSION=$HOME/.Xsession

none of which exist for this user.  The sessions directory is:

# Session description directory
SessionDir=/usr/share/xsessions

and this path contains:

# ls -la /usr/share/xsessions
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  102 May 14 21:39 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3582 May 14 23:03 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  229 Dec  5 08:36 Xsession.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1582 Apr  2 18:14 enlightenment.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2109 May 14 21:35 plasma.desktop

but as I said selecting Plasma in the sddm session drop down will start 
enlightenment instead.

Another point of pain is that the sddm Layout is US, instead of GB.  In other 
PCs starting to type the passwd causes the layout to change immediately to GB.  
Not with this one.

Finally, this user had a tonne of notes in the PostIt plasma on their desktop.  
Where can I find the content of this?  Setting up a new PostIt plasma widget 
shows an empty yellow Postit.

-- 
Regards,
Mick