Is rendering my computer completely unusable MATE's fault or LXQt?

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Is rendering my computer completely unusable MATE’s fault or LXQt?

The scenario:

I install a fresh MATE 18.04.1. Works fine after reboot.

I install LXQt to try it out.

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install lxqt openbox

I logout, get the login screen, I choose the lxqt option from the dropdown mentu to try it out.

I get this window:

“Welcome to LXQt
Please slect your default Window Manager.”

and the options are:

“Other… Chose your favorite one”

And that’s the only option. What the hell do I do with that? Underneath:

“You will be able to change this at any time through Preferences -> Session Settings -> Basic Settings.”

With one button “OK”

There’s no cancel button. That’s the only button.

What do I do? I guess I’ll reboot, right. I reboot. I get the same window. (I guess because in the MATE install I told it to auto-login.)

Thus my computer is completely useless. What is my other recourse but to reinstall MATE. I reinstalled MATE. Here I am. Good thing I hadn’t set it all up and installed stuff and THEN thought hey gee golly maybe I’ll try another window manager.

(I’ve been a lamp developer for 20 years and I did crtl-alt-F4 to get a command prompt, but hey, pretend I wasn’t; pretend I was a beginner or intermediate. So in fact, I didn’t bother trying to needle around to fix it, it’s not worth my time. Why should I fix some shitty distro and/or window manager.)

Which brings me to my original question:

Who’s at fault here? Is that MATE’s fault, or is that LXQt’s fault?

Which one should be responsible for not providing me a cancel button? I want to know who to avoid forever.

Thank you,

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That would be an LXQT issue, since MATE doesn’t have those settings mentioned in the window, nor the window itself anywhere in its code, as far as I know.

Seems like LXQT needs a different window manager that is not automatically pulled in the dependencies?

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Thanks @vkareh I thought so. BTW I posted this same post on the lxqt forum too and my account was locked “pending” mode for a while but that might just be automatic, and to their credit it’s approved now. The responses so far are predictable- some tapdancing, some laughably ignorant (“Not our problem”), but at least there was something underneath it that was an attempt to deal with it.