From: Marc Joliet <marcec@gmx.de>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] sddm - any config to not advertise user names?
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 10:48:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12774271.gmmlFQfOHd@thetick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK2H+eexVP13n7vV4YiuBTSNDM+miDovASE1ChHx3=Sh9fPSZQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Monday 18 July 2016 16:07:34 Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Marc Joliet <marcec@gmx.de> wrote:
> > On Sunday 17 July 2016 15:03:26 Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > The push to Plasma 5 had me switch to sddm by default instead of kdm.
>
> Does
>
> > > anyone know how to configure sddm to not advertise all user names on the
> > > login screen? I.e. - have users type both their user names as well as
> > > passwords?
> > >
> > > Note that there is discussion in the man pages about a file
>
> /etc/sddm.conf
>
> > > but it's not installed on my system, I don't see any use flags that
>
> would
>
> > > apparently change that and there's no obvious documentation on what I
>
> think
>
> > > is the sddm homepage:
> > >
> > > https://github.com/sddm
> > >
> > > If sddm cannot be configured this way then are there any other Display
> > > Managers that work this way and work well with KDE?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Mark
> >
> > AFAICT you just have to select the right theme/design for SDDM. You can
>
> do
>
> > that via systemsettings, for example. It seems you want something like
> > Circles or Elarun.
> >
> > HTH
> > --
> > Marc Joliet
>
> Thanks Marc. Elarun works and is relatively similar to the older KDM login
> as to be familiar. The only weird problem I had was that a mouse double
> click doesn't seem to select the whole login name so I have to click in the
> box at the end and backspace to get a new name in.
>
> Circles seems to work also but the 'circles' are so obnoxious! Just not the
> theme for me. I sort of liked the circles login box a bit better because it
> put the Plasma 5 choice right there. I didn't try breeze or maldives yet
> but might just to see what they look like.
>
> None the less very happy to have all those names and heads gone!
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
Glad that it worked for you! And in the worst case, you could probably make
your own theme ;-) (I remember reading that SDDM designs are in written in
QML).
Cheers
--
Marc Joliet
--
"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we
don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-17 22:03 [gentoo-amd64] sddm - any config to not advertise user names? Mark Knecht
2016-07-18 10:00 ` malc
2016-07-18 12:56 ` Mark Knecht
2016-07-18 13:11 ` Rich Freeman
2016-07-18 13:23 ` Mark Knecht
2016-07-18 14:26 ` malc
2016-07-18 15:49 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2016-07-18 16:26 ` Mark Knecht
2016-07-19 3:32 ` [gentoo-amd64] OT: Hotel wifi and general update Was: sddm Duncan
2016-07-18 10:12 ` [gentoo-amd64] sddm - any config to not advertise user names? Randy Barlow
2016-07-18 21:53 ` Marc Joliet
2016-07-18 23:07 ` Mark Knecht
2016-07-19 8:48 ` Marc Joliet [this message]
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