KDE Proposes New Plasma Login Manager to Replace SDDM

https://linuxiac.com/kde-proposes-new-plasma-login-manager-to-replace-sddm/

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unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de · 40 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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 pts · 1y

100%

Kuvwert@lemm.ee · 18 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I spent my whole Saturday fighting sddm

Jhex@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Did you win?

Kuvwert@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

A win - with only moderate compromise :)

Jhex@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

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

TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y

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

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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 pts · 1y

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

bitwolf@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y

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 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Hopefully there this can be DE agnostic.

biokernel@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 1y

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

ColdWater@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

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

ulterno@programming.dev · 0 pts · 1y

Yaay! Slideshow wallpaper on my login screen!?

ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · -1 pts · 1y

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

  1. You need other input methods
  2. You don't care about security