From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D146A59CB1 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2016 20:14:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A740A21C0A5; Tue, 12 Apr 2016 20:13:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wm0-f67.google.com (mail-wm0-f67.google.com [74.125.82.67]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 55B4421C069 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2016 20:13:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wm0-f67.google.com with SMTP id y144so8355620wmd.0 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2016 13:13:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=EAjCIzsDros3nLJ2PnHeJCbRfjrMbqkH/P/Diu4vuMc=; b=yhjG2XIQqNTDOMnbGeHwkLBWQSWAeXhlfe0pAP6TtnoWI+4N9ITehZJ35i0cRj6WwP sLvtcCVYGTfG8q0QFLczxJrzsItU4254uPEuojfQipNV1zx0iQACzf6BUXVYvVFsJno2 xSMTcWb/n0me4YVg2vzi0HScrKmyS4wIlVbVNaPkKQhjeFDQj79uS8kzOZfwpcgCnWkW lcns7cDDKh21rcrQEXguRfW12DawBjcRpqlcVo/MwHtrBVtGoxbiSKoNM6uSz3hdwFBu rgO6syPFcD8rnafgAD3cQp1SMOK/hHmaEQiufXCIvXMw1BmuqJ84fBfK4BWjnDbA8mhU NHew== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=EAjCIzsDros3nLJ2PnHeJCbRfjrMbqkH/P/Diu4vuMc=; b=aO+UaLuV7dTZp6wjxpJ3xvZJOIFtibVc5uoRC+oVmV2+4qkxp/EZtCLFmKboUJKw5y VQ64RQJCL+AAjbqFg8MtuoV67c+tgP0kVqQAW52mbn0T5dPUn+xZn2ECWilAjC/KRXH/ dwsTHqrUJoZ60zbozG2DK/95aUoNIHYK7DCZ6g4WCfkJI4xS19fo2GK1ILstsjty2pco TAqySO1czT5Z8Ed7fHwvRTWg2u3nUiYnK1BP4N9FftRDf2yMs8DkzUdWPooHFnCzFYe0 h1wYZt67zNMmglFPBpVTf/3+uz5+BNkHl0l1n9/Ox7nPn7lO40vbtw+JSssm5HTaA3Ph oirw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOPr4FXZzRP4ZuZzhiBV6cSyW3myUDZsevS1fHVXuF6+lMOBnXOhfKRMCr6XmVlhaoMt5Q== X-Received: by 10.28.176.200 with SMTP id z191mr6451418wme.91.1460492035994; Tue, 12 Apr 2016 13:13:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.40] ([165.255.112.141]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id w10sm23799665wjz.9.2016.04.12.13.13.54 for (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 12 Apr 2016 13:13:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and the new plasma 5 thing To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <570C89C0.3060807@gmail.com> <570C8BBE.2060103@gmail.com> <570C9E0F.7070805@gmail.com> <1994596.hHob6hsXYm@andromeda> <570D3CB1.8030607@gmail.com> <20160412195334.7fe86ea8@digimed.co.uk> <20160412201010.GA16313@tp.fritz.box> From: Alan McKinnon Message-ID: <570D56FF.6010204@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 22:13:51 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160412201010.GA16313@tp.fritz.box> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d036843a-85a9-4b16-85cd-d00e2609bfb5 X-Archives-Hash: 1bbdba731485bcd0d42775b7820a495d On 12/04/2016 22:10, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 07:53:34PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 13:21:37 -0500, Dale wrote: 8< >>> 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 don't particularly like SDDM. I does not allow me to log in using just the > keyboard, I always have to click into the password field after it loaded up. > The field is neither active by default nor can I select it with Tab. Call it > a nitpick, but even Windows lets me enter my password without a mouse. Is it > a problem with my VM or can you confirm this? It get it as well. But worse, it's erratic. Sometimes the password field has focus on startup, sometimes now. Sometimes my usert account is selected sometimes not. I have a suspicion it's somehow related to whether I press Enter to initiate login, or click the button with a mouse. But that takes too many logouts to verify so I haven't checked :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com