I just happened to reinstall my system from scratch last week. And I made sure that Xorg was installed and selected under Settings > SDDM > Behaviour, because I remember this now being a choice due to this issue I had, where Xorg had been deleted from my 2 long-term set-up’s and I had to reinstall Xorg.
I was actually going to say that KDE had changed Xorg to Wayland on reboot, but after a screenshot, I can see that Xorg has been deleted again upon update or reboot.
Since this is very unlikely to be an issue with kde software, please report it to your distribution instead.
The Plasma systemsettings do not uninstall Xorg by themselves.
Sure, just opened a thread there for anyone who might want to follow the bread crumbs.
He’s using Manjaro (Testing), recently switched from Stable… so you’re right - nothing to do with KDE, this is an X11 packaging issue.
Apparently now insisting they installed Manjaro with X11, but then KDE uninstalled X11… however, X11 was never installed.
user@computer ~> sudo pacman-mirrors -G
[sudo] password for user:
testing
I don’t know where you are getting your facts from, but you are tiresome. Let me tell you that much.
And this is the third system with that issue. Also, how do you know that X11 was never installed? Have you been monitoring my system by any chances?
The Manjaro forum. I was watching you argue there.
Is that why you edited your message to say “testing” and deleted the other post? Come on, go gaslight somebody else.
This has been resolved according to Manjaro is deleting Xorg from my system - KDE Plasma - Manjaro Linux Forum
This post should also be marked resolved too and lets move on.
Be better.
I just don’t appreciate being gaslit and harassed, so I will say it as it is. I am not perfect, but I will stand up for myself.
Verbatim from that thread:
Plasma used to provide a launcher in /usr/share/xsessions and that launcher was part of a plasma package so it will be removed when that package is upgraded.
Which is now an empty directory:
drwxr**-xr-**x 0 root 24 Nov 23:04 xsessions/
it is simple. With Plasma release 6.4 the X11 files got split out. So if you regular update your system from 6.3 series, which still shipped the files in kwin and plasma-session packages and you didn’t install plasma-x11-session, which is a new package the X11 session won’t be available. Upstream Arch decided not to provide meta packages which would also install those new split packages.
New ISOs will provide Wayland only Plasma with 25.1 release of Manjaro Linux. Same goes for the GNOME edition. Only XFCE will default to X11 still and will ship it on the upcoming release of Manjaro.
Try installing xLibre (the maintained/updated x11 version)
github /X11Libre/binpkg-arch-based
I have thought about it, but I just want to type on my keyboard like I used to. I don’t want to remap all of my keys. I wanted to move to X11Libre later on when the project has been running for longer and is more established.
A lot of things are changing in 2026. This whole stack was very stable for the last 10+ years. Now, backwards compatibility is not a thing anymore for so many stacks.
X11Libre is unsupported on Plasma (Distributions/Packaging Recommendations - KDE Community Wiki).
I assume it refers to the fact that the target functionality is the official x11 version.
Basically, any bugs that occur in xLibre are specific to xLibre.
But that doesn’t mean it won’t work in Plasma.
I use xLibre and it works fine.