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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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Marc Joliet wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 12 April 2016 22:10:10 Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
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> >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?
>
>  
>
> I find it depends on the SDDM theme used. After the upgrade, on both
> systems, SDDM used Maui by default, with which I had two problems: the
> password field never started out focused, and it would always display
> that I had selected an English locale... except the instant I press a
> key, it would switch to German -- apparently a UI issue :-/ . I
> subsequently switched to the Breeze theme and haven't had any serious
> issues since -- SDDM doesn't show my user's avatar, while the screen
> locker does, but that's it, I think).
>
>  
>
> HTH
>
> -- 
>
> Marc Joliet
>
> --
>
> "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who
> know we
>
> don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup
>
>  
>


If anyone is brave enough to file a bug, I can say that it doesn't focus
on the password here either.  It selects the user but that's it.  Since
it works on some themes and not others, makes one wonder if the theme
has something to do with it. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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