No built-in VPN support for remote desktop? 😢
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Is this a joke or am I missing something? Why would you want that from a login manager? To me a VPN is either system-wide or per-user
RDP over VPN. My former workplace had a solution that hacked itself before the Windows' login manager for remote logins. Would make Linux more viable for business imo.
And yes, it's partly a critique; they put all those usecases and protocols in one tool (i'm a sucker for minimism and modularity) but missed this aspect?
I'm still not sure I understand why you can't start the RDP and VPN daemons via systemd or other init?
So you say there's no need for RDP in a display manager (login screen)?
I don't see it, you can just make a system service that starts it on system startup. You can specify a dependency on the display manager being up if you'd like. But I don't see why the DM itself needs to start it
Which is my point. 👍
This made me aware of this option in the first place. Just swapped it in on my desktop and it already feels less jank.
Great decision on Fedoras part. My laptop is running KDE fedora so can't wait til it gets this update.
No AI? Are they allowed to do that? Are you sure?
- Types in username and password
"Perfect! You are now logged into your computer. Enjoy your desktop!"
- Nothing happens. Try to log in again
"You're absolutely right, I failed to log you in while claiming you had actually logged in. Good catch! I'll log you into your system now. Have fun!"
- Nothing happens
Made me laugh
I demand newly minted slop on every wake from suspend 😤
I demand a KoChauffeur+ button. How are we supposed to login to our computer without a ~~slop~~chatbox!?
Already created a issue ticket /s
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meanwhile I just want to go back to blank/black lockscreen with no visual cues and you just type the password and nothing happens of it's wrong, but I've been quite sick of trying to look up how to do forgotten things I had on older systems only to get AI slop guides that ramble on with a hallucinated life story and either never getting to the point of just not working.
I wish no visuals could just be a setting on all distros
Slim? Also, console/TUI display managers.
And you can usually restrict search results to up to 2023 to avoid AI slop. Also, i use this userscript to remove domains from results.
Edit: my bad, it's about session locker.
slock
Very cool. I’m consistently impressed by the KDE devs.
No custom login theme now, or no theming ever? I will likely want to change a few things
Where are you getting this?
“The move replaces SDDM but means giving up on custom login themes.”
— It's FOSS
Could just mean that it will apply plasma's theme
AI hallucination probably
The internet is always right except when its not.
Fedora will be the first distro? Adopting it even faster than KDE Neon, a distro made by KDE itself?
KDE neon is really only a development platform, and it is barely maintained.
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KDE Linux will probably have it first.
Edit: nevermind. https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/350
looking forward to it, sddm is the only thing I have left that depends on xorg directly
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