how to have a choice of lxqt?

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Hi all,
I installed the latest antergos openbox as i assumed that would be used under lxqt anyway. I then installed all the lxqt components listed, official and aur, along with sddm. I changed .xinitric to include startlxqt. But when i reboot it goes straight to openbox. I can see many lxqt programs there that weren’t options earlier so i think i have a successful install. Can anyone tell me specifically what i need to do to boot directly into lxqt, or at least have the option to do so? Many thanks!

@billwx Hey! Have you enabled sddm.service in systemd?

if you came from Openbox, you must backup all Openbox configs, and remove te current openbox configs because it does not work proper with Lxqt !

Ehmm, sddm or lxqt normally does not mather? openbox config interfere to combine with lxqt…

openbox config hang in .config , end mosty with xml like rc.xml

Turns out i had selected at first (openbox) install to auto login without giving my user password, so it went strtaight into openbox. Once when i was away for awhile it logged me out. Eventually at the user login i saw the desktop options for both openbox and lxqt, selected lxqt, and went right in.

if you put ALT-F2 you dont have Krunner of lxqt, the GMRUN or whatever of openbox it wanna have, thats cause of openbox xml config further should be running

So ideally i should install a base Antergos then build LxQt onto it using pacman without Openbox or another DE?

not necessary, just know where to change , just rename the openbox folder in .config hidden map

@plas that may be the problem. What’s the file i need to edit for that? Thx!

@billwx You don’t even need to edit files, you just only need to enable the sddm systemd service, but first you need to disable lightdm:

sudo systemctl disable lightdm.service

Then you can enable sddm:

sudo systemctl enable sddm.service

I think this would do the trick. If you need some more information about this topic you can check the arch wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/display_manager

I hope it will work!