X11 Completely BROKEN

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I installed Neon 24.04 from the image neon-user-20250616-0055.iso, I logged in with X11 and as you can see in the image, the windows are completely broken, not title bar, not buttons, they stack on each other and if you want to close them, they do not even respond to ALT+F4. I did all the updates by the way

I thought it might be something specific with my machine so I installed it in a QEMU VM and it’s the same.

I had to move to Debian 13 trixie (I don’t want Kubuntu and MX has old packages) but that brings me other problems there’s no need to mention here.

X11 is still a must for a lot of us, is it not maintained anymore for Neon, or is it not being given the required attention because of Wayland?

I’d really love to be able to keep using Neon with X11…

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That looks as if the window manager is not running.

It works nicely on both of my KDE Neon systems so the upgrade path works.

There could be an issue with the installer, e.g. it might not have installed the kwin-x11 package.

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I agree, something seems to have been broken. Logging in to X11 seems to work fine for me as well.

Might also consider trying the current ISO image, but finding the missing bit, or making sure all updates are installed may be easier.

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That’s what I call knowing!

I installed kwin-11 and everything seems to be working fine now with x11

Out of curiosity I also downloaded the latest image neon-user-20250622-0744.iso and installed it in a VM and the problem persists with this image…

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As you can see, running apt shows kwin-x11 is not installed.

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Could be an issue with the installer’s default package list or a mistake somewhere in the package dependencies.

Easy to miss during testing because the default session is Wayland and anyone who uses X11 was upgraded correctly.

So it hit only those installing anew and switching session type.

Good to know it was easily fixable :slight_smile:

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So the session is still present by default in SDDM (but no kwin_x11 package present) on a fresh install?
Or are you installing packages post-install?

Seems like a package tweak may be needed.

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@claydoh Exactly, you can choose x11 in SDDM but kwin_x11 is missing so when you login with x11 everything is broken.

I installed kwin_x11 post install and everything works.

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Worth a bug report. I can’t do so myself at the moment, got my hands full and need to verify it first.

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I’ll report it, no worries.

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Done 506045 – Neon x11 broken in fresh installations because kwin-x11 is not installed.

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hi, thanks for the bug report. should be fixed by add kwin-x11 to iso (1bab22ba) · Commits · Neon / neon / seeds · GitLab
and when the next iso is built

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