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KDE Proposes New Plasma Login Manager to Replace SDDM (linuxiac.com)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/linux
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I spent my whole Saturday fighting sddm

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Did you win?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A win - with only moderate compromise :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

A win is a win.... Kudos my friend

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

SDDM (and GDM) can be a pain sometimes, so I welcome this.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Plasma is amazing and the thing that mostly bugs out on all my systems is SDDM by far, so this is totally the right choice.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

100%

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

This is great to hear. Something I love about GNOME was the login / lock experience.

SDDM felt like shit when used with Unity, and with Pantheon, and with Plasma.

Looking forward to its release.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't know much about login managers, but I do know that SDDM has been a pain in my ass on more than one occasion and on more than one distro.

[–] dirtycrow 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

~~On old Plasma versions (Debian) the Lock Screen manager would crash pretty much every week until I upgraded to the latest release.~~

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

that role is usually not held by SDDM, though. I think that's handled by plasma or kwin, but not exactly sure about that part

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hopefully there this can be DE agnostic.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Nope, that's the problem with SDDM - it is "meant to be desktop-agnostic".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I only login from TTY but a new login manager is always welcome

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

There are only two reasons to use something other than xscreensaver:

  1. You need other input methods
  2. You don't care about security
[–] ulterno 0 points 3 days ago

Yaay! Slideshow wallpaper on my login screen!?