[gentoo-user] Re: KDE and the new plasma 5 thing

[»Q« <boxcars@gmx.net>]

On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 21:19:30 +0100
Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 08:30:48 -0500, »Q« wrote:
> 
> > > > > That's because kdm is dead. I found sddm a little flakey. On
> > > > > my laptop it works more or less as expected, but on my
> > > > > desktop, selecting reboot or power off from the desktop drops
> > > > > me back to sddm without rebooting. I'm nit sure if this is an
> > > > > issue with sddm or plasma, maybe I'll try slim instead.      
> > >     
> > > > SDDM was doing that to me too until I created a default
> > > > config.      
> > > 
> > > That appears to have worked, thanks.    
> > 
> > I have a default config, but I can't reboot or shutdown from sddm.
> > If I press one of those buttons, a 30-second timer starts.
> > Pressing more buttons to try to skip the timer just restarts the
> > timer.  Letting the timer run down, it gets to zero then goes
> > beyond, into negative integers.  
> 
> That's a different problem, mine was that I couldn't reboot or
> shutdown fro the desktop, it dropped me back as sddm as if I'd
> selected Logout. Then I could shutdown from sddm.

Thanks -- I understood you the first time but had forgotten what you
said by the time I replied downthread.  D'oh!

My automatically-created sddm.conf has

[General]
HaltCommand=/sbin/shutdown -h -P now
Numlock=none
RebootCommand=/sbin/shutdown -r now

which looks alright to me.  I'll try troubleshooting this later, but if
anyone has any suggestions I'd appreciate them any time.