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double_click_07

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Registered: 2020-06-20

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Integrate elements of a desktop environment

I have KDE-Plasma installed currently, But I want to have a custom desktop environment. So, I looked up https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De … vironments and installed
1. An Application launcher (gnome-pie)
2. A Clipboard Manager (anamnesis)
3. Display manager (ly and sddm)
4. Logout dialogue (oblogout) etc.
So how do I get these elements to work together as a happy desktop environment.

PS. I am a newbie, just installed the system around 36hrs before.

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: Integrate elements of a desktop environment

What do you mean "work together"?  They are each separate components.  Just follow the instructions for using each one.  There is no magic to make a full DE "work together", it's just a prepackaged set of components.

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ondoho

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Registered: 2013-04-30

Posts: 692

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Re: Integrate elements of a desktop environment

I have KDE-Plasma installed currently, But I want to have a custom desktop environment. So, I looked up https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De … vironments and installed
1. An Application launcher (gnome-pie)
2. A Clipboard Manager (anamnesis)
3. Display manager (ly and sddm)
4. Logout dialogue (oblogout) etc.
So how do I get these elements to work together as a happy desktop environment.

PS. I am a newbie, just installed the system around 36hrs before.

You should disable KDE Plasma.
I am guessing that it is started via some display manager. According to this it is started via systemd, so disable that and enable your chosen display manager instead (after configuring it of course).
Do you have a window manager that you can start with Xorg?