Am Samstag, dem 14.06.2025 um 15:37 +0200 schrieb Andreas Enge: > Hello, > > a somewhat tangential question, since in any case Gnome is an > important part of our system: Can we make it easier for a user to get > rid of everything Gnome? > > Personally I chose the XFCE desktop (but might also be happy with > others, such as KDE or LXQT), but I think GDM is still required as > the login manager. GDM is the default login manager as per %desktop-services. You can swap it out for another login manager. However, the basic configuration also has the set-xorg-configuration "service", which will often inadvertently pull in GDM (see [1]).
> Can I choose the login manager separately from the desktop > environment (KDM, XDM)? Outside of GNOME, there should be less coupling. > If yes, should the default for xfce-desktop-service-type be changed > (why GDM and not XDM)? Should it become an entry in the > xfce-desktop-configuration record? > If not, can we somehow get there? The plasma template has some code to use KDE Plasma plus SDDM; removing GDM in the process. It sadly does not set the keyboard layout as far as I can see. Cheers [1] https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/pulls/428
