On Monday 18 July 2016 16:07:34 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Marc Joliet <mar...@gmx.de> wrote: > > On Sunday 17 July 2016 15:03:26 Mark Knecht wrote: > > > The push to Plasma 5 had me switch to sddm by default instead of kdm. > > Does > > > > anyone know how to configure sddm to not advertise all user names on the > > > login screen? I.e. - have users type both their user names as well as > > > passwords? > > > > > > Note that there is discussion in the man pages about a file > > /etc/sddm.conf > > > > but it's not installed on my system, I don't see any use flags that > > would > > > > apparently change that and there's no obvious documentation on what I > > think > > > > is the sddm homepage: > > > > > > https://github.com/sddm > > > > > > If sddm cannot be configured this way then are there any other Display > > > Managers that work this way and work well with KDE? > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Mark > > > > AFAICT you just have to select the right theme/design for SDDM. You can > > do > > > that via systemsettings, for example. It seems you want something like > > Circles or Elarun. > > > > HTH > > -- > > Marc Joliet > > Thanks Marc. Elarun works and is relatively similar to the older KDM login > as to be familiar. The only weird problem I had was that a mouse double > click doesn't seem to select the whole login name so I have to click in the > box at the end and backspace to get a new name in. > > Circles seems to work also but the 'circles' are so obnoxious! Just not the > theme for me. I sort of liked the circles login box a bit better because it > put the Plasma 5 choice right there. I didn't try breeze or maldives yet > but might just to see what they look like. > > None the less very happy to have all those names and heads gone! > > Cheers, > Mark
Glad that it worked for you! And in the worst case, you could probably make your own theme ;-) (I remember reading that SDDM designs are in written in QML). Cheers -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup
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