From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and the new plasma 5 thing
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 23:45:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <11327463.uVUm3LfhTg@dell_xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5710A9AE.6020603@gmail.com>
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On Friday 15 Apr 2016 10:43:26 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 14/04/2016 21:39, Mick wrote:
> > I don't have NVidia or use the full plasma desktop environment on my
> > laptop (I use enlightenment instead with a Radeon card). However, I have
> > not added sddm to the video group and have not noticed anything undue in
> > my logs. I have however noticed that sddm is slightly slower than kdm.
> >
> > Why is the video group needed? What does it do?
>
> It's a simple group permission scheme to allow users access to advanced
> features on the video card, like what compositing does.
I'd understand this if sddm was using hardware acceleration to play some video
or snazzy graphics while login in. It looks rather static to me, unless it
uses the card to scroll between user icons ... ?
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Regards,
Mick
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Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-12 5:38 [gentoo-user] KDE and the new plasma 5 thing Dale
2016-04-12 5:46 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-04-12 7:04 ` Dale
2016-04-12 8:14 ` J. Roeleveld
2016-04-12 18:21 ` Dale
2016-04-12 18:53 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-04-12 19:05 ` J. Roeleveld
2016-04-12 19:30 ` Dale
2016-04-12 20:10 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2016-04-12 20:13 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-04-12 20:39 ` Marc Joliet
2016-04-13 2:55 ` Dale
2016-04-13 4:22 ` Daniel Frey
2016-04-13 8:43 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-04-13 13:35 ` Alec Ten Harmsel
2016-04-12 21:00 ` Daniel Frey
2016-04-12 23:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-04-13 13:30 ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2016-04-13 20:19 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-04-13 20:43 ` »Q«
2016-04-13 21:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-04-15 21:16 ` »Q«
2016-04-12 19:04 ` [gentoo-user] " J. Roeleveld
2016-04-12 19:18 ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2016-04-12 19:31 ` J. Roeleveld
2016-04-12 20:01 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-04-12 20:17 ` J. Roeleveld
2016-04-12 21:19 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-04-13 6:45 ` J. Roeleveld
2016-04-12 20:18 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-04-12 20:31 ` J. Roeleveld
2016-04-12 20:43 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-04-13 13:23 ` »Q«
2016-04-12 20:46 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2016-04-12 20:50 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-04-14 20:38 ` walt
2016-04-14 21:13 ` Mick
2016-04-15 8:41 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-04-15 14:37 ` »Q«
2016-04-12 20:55 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-04-13 5:43 ` J. Roeleveld
2016-04-13 8:06 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-04-14 4:27 ` Jonathan Callen
2016-04-12 21:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-04-13 3:11 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2016-04-13 13:43 ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2016-04-13 21:41 ` Dale
2016-04-13 12:17 ` [gentoo-user] " Yuri K. Shatroff
2016-04-13 21:49 ` Dale
2016-04-14 7:33 ` Yuri K. Shatroff
2016-04-14 7:43 ` J. Roeleveld
2016-04-14 7:58 ` Dale
2016-04-14 8:01 ` J. Roeleveld
2016-04-14 8:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-04-14 8:14 ` J. Roeleveld
2016-04-14 8:22 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-04-14 8:19 ` Dale
2016-04-14 11:44 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-04-14 8:21 ` Yuri K. Shatroff
2016-04-14 8:36 ` Dale
2016-04-14 8:53 ` Yuri K. Shatroff
2016-04-14 17:00 ` Gregory Woodbury
2016-04-14 19:39 ` Mick
2016-04-14 23:33 ` [gentoo-user] " Jonathan Callen
2016-04-15 8:43 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2016-04-15 22:45 ` Mick [this message]
2016-04-16 0:48 ` Dale
2016-04-14 15:14 ` Daniel Frey
2016-04-14 16:02 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-04-14 19:43 ` Daniel Frey
2016-04-14 5:19 ` Dale
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