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[Psychiatric services by Dr. saleem Khan Marwat]

when i try this command as suggested above I get this output
# systemctl enable display-manager.service
The unit files have no installation config (WantedBy=, RequiredBy=,
UpheldBy=,
Also=, or Alias= settings in the [Install] section, and DefaultInstance= for
template units). This means they are not meant to be enabled or disabled
using systemctl.

Possible reasons for having this kind of units are:
• A unit may be statically enabled by being symlinked from another unit's
  .wants/, .requires/, or .upholds/ directory.
• A unit's purpose may be to act as a helper for some other unit which has
  a requirement dependency on it.
• A unit may be started when needed via activation (socket, path, timer,
  D-Bus, udev, scripted systemctl call, ...).
• In case of template units, the unit is meant to be enabled with some
  instance name specified.

upon reboot I am getting a plain display manager perhaps lxdm and not sddm
or lightdm

I am going something wrong perhaps


On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 4:12 AM Krzysztof Mrozowicz via pld-devel-en <
pld-devel-en at lists.pld-linux.org> wrote:

> Dnia 2025-07-25, o godz. 17:56:48
> Saleem Ceann Khan Marwat <drmarwat at gmail.com> napisał(a):
>
> > I tried sddm , lightdm , installed each and when tried to enable I get
> > error that the particular e.g lightdm.service is not available.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
>
> In PLD there is one service for all display managers and it's called
> display-manager.service. The preferences and priorities of it are
> configured in /etc/X11/xinit/prefdm.
>
> Regards
> Krzysztof
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