Why am I seeing this desktop?

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After running zypper dup that included a kernel update this morning, I rebooted and my machine was running at 1080 x 760 resolution instead of 4K. I reinstalled nvidia driver 575.65.05 and after the install finished, I used the command systemctl start xdm.service.

The desktop that showed up was the stock wallpaper with a small console window in the upper left corner that wouldn’t accept any keyboard input. I rebooted and got my usual desktop back.

Can anyone tell me why I got that unusual desktop? Do I need to use another command for a Wayland session than the one I used?

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The description is more than vague. Could be that you booted into IceWM.

How did you install the Nvidia driver? Via the *.run file? (Asking because this driver version is not available via rpm from the Nvidia openSUSe repo.)

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Yes, I used the .run file. And if I booted into IceWM, why would there be no keyboard input?

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