Whonix does not push updates changing the default
- from “automatically starting the desktop imprisonment” to
- to “not automatically starting the desktop imprisonment”.
Because that would make no sense and cause major support disruptions. Related design documentation:
(Whonix is based on Kicksecure.)
Therefore that’s not documented.
To start the graphical desktop environment, one has to start a display manager.
At time of writing, Whonix uses gdm3 as display manager. [1] The command to (re)start the display manager gdm3 is:
sudo systemctl restart gdm3
But I think this won’t work because that should happen automatically already.
systemcheck isn’t showing any warnings / errors?
Did you remove a meta package? If so, systemcheck would tell you. Try this:
Re-install Meta Packages and Safely Run Autoremove
Otherwise this a is a broken boot:
[1] Potentially subject to change in the future: display manager - lightdm, gdm3, sddm or no display manager (startx)