How to remove and add Desktop Environments (DE)?

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How to remove and add Desktop Environments (DE)?

When I was setting up or installing CachyOS I decided to download COSMIC alongside KDE Plasma (which I set up as my DE). Though when I rebooted, COSMIC was the Default DE, though the DE I move forward with can be changed in the login menu.

My questions are:

How can I change the default DE?
How can I delete DEs?
How can I add them if I want to use them in the future?

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RanzigFettreduziert

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At first make sure cosmic is really installed. Select it at the Login Screen and login. Then take a look at the config file for your desktop manager. Is it sddm, try:

sudo nano /etc/sddm.conf.d/autologin.conf

Then change Session to cosmic

[Autologin]
User=john
Session=cosmic

DE will be deleted with pacman, try this for kde:

sudo pacman -Rns plasma kde-applications

To install a DE use pacman, try this for xfce:

sudo pacman -S xfce4 xfce4-goodies

I hope this will help.

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Thanks a lot!