I tried switching from gdm to kdm and the kdm "login" came up as nothing but an apparent password entry field in the top left corner of the screen (at least all it did was echo dots when I typed in it).
Switched to xdm, and that works much better.
On 5/3/19 9:36 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
I tried switching from gdm to kdm and the kdm "login" came up as nothing but an apparent password entry field in the top left corner of the screen (at least all it did was echo dots when I typed in it).
Switched to xdm, and that works much better.
"systemctl status kdm" to check the error.
I don't use kdm, so I'll leave it to you to bugzilla it.
On 5/3/19 10:07 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 5/3/19 9:36 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
I tried switching from gdm to kdm and the kdm "login" came up as nothing but an apparent password entry field in the top left corner of the screen (at least all it did was echo dots when I typed in it).
Switched to xdm, and that works much better.
"systemctl status kdm" to check the error.
I don't use kdm, so I'll leave it to you to bugzilla it.
Oh, I forgot to mention that I think testing of kdm is no longer part of release testing and the plan, AFAIK, was to eliminate it from the distribution at some point.
You probably should ask about it on the KDE list if it is important to you.
Now that I think about it more, I doubt a BZ will get much attention.
On Fri, 2019-05-03 at 09:36 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
I tried switching from gdm to kdm and the kdm "login" came up as nothing but an apparent password entry field in the top left corner of the screen (at least all it did was echo dots when I typed in it).
Switched to xdm, and that works much better.
The recommended one for KDE/Plasma is SDDM. I think KDM is no longer actively maintained.
poc
On 5/3/19 10:17 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
The recommended one for KDE/Plasma is SDDM. I think KDM is no longer actively maintained.
Yes, and SDDM doesn't support XDMCP, so ...
On 03/05/2019 14:36, Tom Horsley wrote:
I tried switching from gdm to kdm and the kdm "login" came up as nothing but an apparent password entry field in the top left corner of the screen (at least all it did was echo dots when I typed in it). Switched to xdm, and that works much better.
I had exactly he same symptoms with kdm so switched to sddm. That works fine for me.
Regards, Chris R.
On 5/3/19 1:08 PM, Christopher Ross wrote:
On 03/05/2019 14:36, Tom Horsley wrote:
I tried switching from gdm to kdm and the kdm "login" came up as nothing but an apparent password entry field in the top left corner of the screen (at least all it did was echo dots when I typed in it). Switched to xdm, and that works much better.
I had exactly he same symptoms with kdm so switched to sddm. That works fine for me.
Regards, Chris R.
In addition to disabling the kdm.service and enabling the sddm.service, I also needed to add a local selinux policy because sddm_greeter (I think it was that) wasn't able to write to ~/.Xauthority.
I actually allso needed to ditch qt5-qtvirtualkeyboard. Nice if you need it though. There's probably a way to disable it from constantly popping up on the login screen but I have other, more pressing F30 issues to chase down.
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