I have been using fedora with kde plasma desktop. When I upgraded from fedora 29 to fedora 30 I lost my kde login manager as well as the kde plasma desktop.
Is there a way to get my kde plasma desktop (or equivalent) back? The login manager displays a warning message that the plasma desktop is not available and to select a new one or the default will be used, but there is no way to select a desktop from the login display.
On 5/6/19 6:08 PM, David Dembrow wrote:
I have been using fedora with kde plasma desktop. When I upgraded from fedora 29 to fedora 30 I lost my kde login manager as well as the kde plasma desktop.
Is there a way to get my kde plasma desktop (or equivalent) back? The login manager displays a warning message that the plasma desktop is not available and to select a new one or the default will be used, but there is no way to select a desktop from the login display.
KDM has been deprecated for a long time, and it looks like it's finally become completely broken.
The recommended desktop manager for KDE is SDDM. If you need crufty, uncool, "you're doing it wrong!" functionality like remote desktops, take a look at LightDM or gdm.
On 5/6/19 7:08 PM, David Dembrow wrote:
I have been using fedora with kde plasma desktop. When I upgraded from fedora 29 to fedora 30 I lost my kde login manager as well as the kde plasma desktop.
Is there a way to get my kde plasma desktop (or equivalent) back? The login manager displays a warning message that the plasma desktop is not available and to select a new one or the default will be used, but there is no way to select a desktop from the login display.
Check to see if the kdm.service or the sddm.service is running. After I updated I found that kdm was running. You want sddm.
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On 5/7/19 7:08 AM, David Dembrow wrote:
I have been using fedora with kde plasma desktop. When I upgraded from fedora 29 to fedora 30 I lost my kde login manager as well as the kde plasma desktop.
Is there a way to get my kde plasma desktop (or equivalent) back? The login manager displays a warning message that the plasma desktop is not available and to select a new one or the default will be used, but there is no way to select a desktop from the login display.
kdm is broken in F30 and you're not going to get much attention since it is going to be dropped.
Install the preferred DM for KDE, sddm or another DM and then from a ssh session or tty
systemctl --force enable sddm or whatever DM you're planning on using. You *may* then be able to systemctl restart display-manager.service and avoid rebooting
Ed Greshko wrote:
On 5/7/19 7:08 AM, David Dembrow wrote:
I have been using fedora with kde plasma desktop. When I upgraded from fedora 29 to fedora 30 I lost my kde login manager as well as the kde plasma desktop.
Is there a way to get my kde plasma desktop (or equivalent) back? The login manager displays a warning message that the plasma desktop is not available and to select a new one or the default will be used, but there is no way to select a desktop from the login display.
kdm is broken in F30 and you're not going to get much attention since it is going to be dropped.
kdm should be fixed with this update: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-cb657cac7d
But yeah, kdm is deprecated and sddm or something else is generally better to use for posterity.
-- Rex
On 5/7/19 12:50 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
But yeah, kdm is deprecated and sddm or something else is generally better to use for posterity.
Anyone know if there is a lightweight Qt-based LightDM greeter out there anywhere? I've switched to LightDM + slick-greeter, but it's Gtk-based.
The only Qt-based greeter that I can find in Fedora is the Deepin greeter, which wants to pull in an entire desktop environment (and wouldn't even log me in to Plasma which I gave it a quick try).
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