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KDE Proposes New Plasma Login Manager to Replace SDDM (linuxiac.com)
submitted 11 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/linux@programming.dev
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[–] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 11 months 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.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 10 points 11 months ago

100%

[–] Kuvwert@lemm.ee 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I spent my whole Saturday fighting sddm

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Did you win?

[–] Kuvwert@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A win - with only moderate compromise :)

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

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

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 11 months 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@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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.~~

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months 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

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months 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.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully there this can be DE agnostic.

[–] biokernel@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 11 months ago

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

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 11 months ago

Yaay! Slideshow wallpaper on my login screen!?

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net -1 points 11 months 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