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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 13:21:37 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>> Oh, I had to switch to sddm for this too.  You just change the setting
>> from kdm to sddm and it just works.  It looks different but it works
>> fine.  That may have carried over some settings.  It selected the user
>> and was ready for my password just like kdm did.  Again, it looks
>> different but it seems to work the same.  I suspect one could adjust the
>> settings, somewhere, and make it look like kdm if they wanted to. 
> 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.
>
>


Yea, when I was googling around I found out that the plug was pulled on
kdm.  The old kdm always worked for me but KDE5 and the plasma thing is
a whole new can of worms code wise from what I read.  I guess a fresh
start was easier than trying to recode all that mess. 

I haven't tried rebooting/shutdown yet so I guess I'll find out one time
or another if I have the same problem.  Generally tho, I only
shutdown/reboot when I have a power failure here.  So far, I'm at 118
days.  When I do that, I usually do it within KDE since I already know I
have to shutdown and I'm almost always logged in. 

I'm just glad this is a little smoother than the KDE3 to KDE4 mess.  :-) 

Dale

:-)  :-)