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KDE Proposes New Plasma Login Manager to Replace SDDM (linuxiac.com)
submitted 6 days ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/linux@programming.dev
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[–] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 43 points 6 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.

[–] Kuvwert@lemm.ee 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I spent my whole Saturday fighting sddm

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Did you win?

[–] Kuvwert@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A win - with only moderate compromise :)

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

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

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

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

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 5 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@programming.dev 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 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.~~

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 3 points 5 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

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 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.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hopefully there this can be DE agnostic.

[–] biokernel@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 5 days ago

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

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 5 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@programming.dev 0 points 5 days ago

Yaay! Slideshow wallpaper on my login screen!?