Re: [gentoo-user] lightdm - can not login

2021-06-10 Thread thelma
puts me back to login screen (asking for password) I >>> changed/updated the password and the system accept it but I still can not >>> log-in. >> I switched to "sddm" and it works, but it is "ugly". > > There are some themes you could choose from, or

Re: [gentoo-user] lightdm - can not login

2021-06-11 Thread Michael
On Friday, 11 June 2021 09:46:04 BST Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Thelma, > > On Thursday, 2021-06-10 15:42:10 -0600, you wrote: > > ... > > In: /usr/share/sddm/sddm.conf.d/00default.conf > > I change to > > Numlock=on > > No! Directory "/usr/sha

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE, sddm etc security. Plus LVM question.

2022-03-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
have that installed here. Question now is, is that what locks my > > screen or is KDE/sddm/something else doing that besides xscreensaver. > > From my poking around, I don't think I'm using xscreensaver. I'm trying > > to figure out how that works so I can get it to be used with

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-misc/sddm-0.18.1-r6 exits inexplicably

2022-04-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
the USB ethernet adaptor, connected the ethernet cable to the NIC on > > the MoBo and rebooted. No problem. SDDM launches as it should. > > > > So this could be udev related? While udev isrobing the USB adaptor > > and starting the dhcp negotiation, somehow this sequence in

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-misc/sddm-0.18.1-r6 exits inexplicably

2022-04-10 Thread Michael
USB 3.0 1Gbps ethernet adaptor. Following your prompts I unplugged > > > the USB ethernet adaptor, connected the ethernet cable to the NIC on > > > the MoBo and rebooted. No problem. SDDM launches as it should. > > > > > > So this could be udev related? While ude

Re: [gentoo-user] SDDM tmp file goes missing?

2024-01-05 Thread Spackman, Chris
1st 2022. > > > > You might have to adapt the files that should not be cleaned by the > > automatic cleanup (or disable automatic cleanup). > > Good shout. Upstream has created a fix, but it is not in a release (yet). > > https://github.com/sddm/sddm/commit/b00

[gentoo-user] Every other startup results in a black screen (possibly SDDM related?)

2024-04-03 Thread Markus Gustafsson
there it just shows a blinking cursor (i.e. not SDDM, which is what I'd expect). If I reboot from the TTY that lets me log on, the boot process is usually normal and leaves me at the SDDM login. Any tips on how to debug this would be much appreciated. Regards, Markus

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

2016-04-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 14/04/2016 09:58, Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday, April 14, 2016 10:33:10 AM Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: 14.04.2016 00:49, Dale wrote: Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: Hi Dale, I'm not sure on where you got the black screen. If it is when X started, did you switch to sddm or some other

Re: [gentoo-user] blank (black) screen on kde 5

2016-04-15 Thread Francisco Ares
Em 15/04/2016 14:02, <cov...@ccs.covici.com> escreveu: > > Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Friday 15 Apr 2016 12:24:46 Francisco Ares wrote: > > > Hi, alll. > > > > > > After upgrading to kde 5 (plasma), there is a big probl

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

2016-04-15 Thread Mick
On Friday 15 Apr 2016 10:43:26 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 14/04/2016 21:39, Mick wrote: > > I don't have NVidia or use the full plasma desktop environment on my > > laptop (I use enlightenment instead with a Radeon card). However, I have > > not added sddm to the video group

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

2016-04-14 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday, April 14, 2016 10:33:10 AM Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: >> 14.04.2016 00:49, Dale wrote: >>> Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: >> Hi Dale, >> >>> I'm not sure on where you got the black screen. If it is when X >>> started,

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

2017-12-29 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 21 Dec 2017 15:41:26 + schrieb Jörg Schaible: > Hi, > > after the update and installation of gentoo-sources-4.14.7 my two > machines no longer switch to SDDM on VT7, it stays on VT1. However, I > can switch manually using CTRL-ALT-7 to SDDM and login as usu

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

2017-12-23 Thread Raymond Jennings
possibly being confused by bad configuration On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 7:41 AM, Jörg Schaible <joerg.schai...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi, > > after the update and installation of gentoo-sources-4.14.7 my two machines no > longer switch to SDDM on > VT7, it stays on VT1. However, I can switc

[gentoo-user] Re: Incorrect list of groups membership

2019-04-15 Thread Remy Blank
this is triggered by restarting the xdm service, possibly limited to sddm users. I have noticed the same issue here. Groups are correct after a reboot, but if I do: $ /etc/init.d/xdm restart and log into KDE, then I'm a member of all sorts of system groups. I'm using sddm, maybe it happens with other logi

Re: [gentoo-user] sddm-helper and high memory usage

2020-05-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
Then I have to reopen all that when I log back in. Why do you have to do that yourself? I'd have thought that sddm would take care of it for you. It does for me. > On top of that, I have to wait for a download to stop as well. Yea, it's > annoying, putting it mildly. lol I thought if I k

Re: [gentoo-user] unmasking qt5 and plasma 5

2015-01-09 Thread Dan Oriani
On 01/09/2015 01:15 PM, behrouz khosravi wrote: I couldn't stop myself anymore! Right now I am trying to get Plasma 5 on my machine. This is not easy though. I just hope I wont break anything critical! I am trying to install SDDM for the fisrt step. There is definitely a ton to unmask

[gentoo-user] Re: Plasma migration won't launch

2016-05-15 Thread Mick
On Saturday 14 May 2016 23:54:32 you wrote: > I've upgraded a PC to plasma5 and sddm won't launch it. Instead it launches > only Enlightenment, which happens to be the first on the sddm list, no > matter what desktop I choose from the drop down. > > Have I missed some setti

Re: [gentoo-user] blank (black) screen on kde 5

2016-04-15 Thread Francisco Ares
Em 15/04/2016 13:45, "Mick" <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> escreveu: > > On Friday 15 Apr 2016 12:24:46 Francisco Ares wrote: > > Hi, alll. > > > > After upgrading to kde 5 (plasma), there is a big problem. > > > > No matter if I use sddm to man

Re: [gentoo-user] blank (black) screen on kde 5

2016-04-15 Thread covici
Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday 15 Apr 2016 14:11:18 Francisco Ares wrote: > > > > hmmm, I am using gnome and also get the blank screen, and I don't have > > > an sddm user at all, so I wonder if its a bit more basic. > > OK, is x11-misc

Re: [gentoo-user] blank (black) screen on kde 5

2016-04-16 Thread Francisco Ares
2016-04-15 19:51 GMT-03:00 Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com>: > On Friday 15 Apr 2016 14:11:18 Francisco Ares wrote: > > > > hmmm, I am using gnome and also get the blank screen, and I don't have > > > an sddm user at all, so I wonder if its a bit more basic. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file : solved

2016-04-17 Thread Andreas K. Hüttel
o know re such matters ? good question... I was wondering for quite some time why sddm only showed a black screen, until I realized that the sddm user needs to be in video group too (it's in the Plasma update howto)... tl;dr - happened to me too. and a solution or at least some big error / warning woul

Re: [gentoo-user] Where the Plasma shutdown menu option gone?

2018-05-30 Thread Mick
option to logout and then use the sddm menu to shutdown, but other > > options have disappeared from the the plasma menu. > > Also not having this issue. I restarted SDDM yesterday and my system is > fully up-to-date. > > Andrew Thanks guys, I just rebooted and still every sub

[gentoo-user] Endlessly growing xorg-session.log

2018-09-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I've been suffering some very odd problems recently, including lost e-mails, but I've finally found something that could explain them all: disk space down to zero in /home. My ~/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log had grown to 15G! It was mostly full of repetitions

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What the devil?!! [or Plasma teething problems Ia.]

2019-06-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 11:20:20 +0100, Mick wrote: > I just looked at another installation. The default sddm configuration > file (/ usr/share/sddm/sddm.conf.d/00default.conf) shows this: > > [General] > # Halt command > HaltCommand=/usr/bin/loginctl poweroff >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What the devil?!! [or Plasma teething problems Ia.]

2019-06-26 Thread Mike Gilbert
k. This systemd-ism may be worth a bug report. > > > > In /usr/share/sddm/sddm.conf.d/00default.conf I have > > > > HaltCommand=/sbin/shutdown -h -P now > > > > RebootCommand=/sbin/shutdown -r now > > > > I just checked it with sddm-0.18.0, t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What the devil?!! [or Plasma teething problems Ia.]

2019-06-27 Thread Mick
e config in /etc/ to use shutdown (with sudo?) it > > > > won't work. This systemd-ism may be worth a bug report. > > > > > > In /usr/share/sddm/sddm.conf.d/00default.conf I have > > > > > > HaltCommand=/sbin/shutdown -h -P now > > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE, sddm etc security. Plus LVM question.

2022-03-19 Thread Wols Lists
On 19/03/2022 11:08, Dale wrote: I have that installed here.  Question now is, is that what locks my screen or is KDE/sddm/something else doing that besides xscreensaver. From my poking around, I don't think I'm using xscreensaver.  I'm trying to figure out how that works so I can get

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE, sddm etc security. Plus LVM question.

2022-03-19 Thread Dale
Wols Lists wrote: > On 19/03/2022 11:08, Dale wrote: >> I have that installed here.  Question now is, is that what locks my >> screen or is KDE/sddm/something else doing that besides xscreensaver. >>  From my poking around, I don't think I'm using xscreensaver.  I'm >>

Re: [gentoo-user] sddm-helper and high memory usage

2020-05-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 20 May 2020 17:56:29 CEST, Dale wrote: >J. Roeleveld wrote: >> >> Dale, >> >> The few times I have issues with "sddm-helper" is when I resume my >laptop from >> hibernate. (Not always, but occasionally) >> The issue I see is 100% CPU-usage

Re: [gentoo-user] sddm-helper and high memory usage

2020-05-20 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: > On 20 May 2020 17:56:29 CEST, Dale wrote: >> J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> Dale, >>> >>> The few times I have issues with "sddm-helper" is when I resume my >> laptop from >>> hibernate. (Not always, but occasionally) &

Re: [gentoo-user] unmasking qt5 and plasma 5

2015-01-09 Thread behrouz khosravi
I couldn't stop myself anymore! Right now I am trying to get Plasma 5 on my machine. This is not easy though. I just hope I wont break anything critical! I am trying to install SDDM for the fisrt step.

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

2016-04-12 Thread Marc Joliet
On Tuesday 12 April 2016 22:10:10 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >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

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

2016-04-12 Thread Dale
Marc Joliet wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 April 2016 22:10:10 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > >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

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

2016-04-15 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > On Friday 15 Apr 2016 10:43:26 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 14/04/2016 21:39, Mick wrote: >>> I don't have NVidia or use the full plasma desktop environment on my >>> laptop (I use enlightenment instead with a Radeon card). However, I have >>> not ad

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

2016-04-14 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, April 14, 2016 10:33:10 AM Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: > 14.04.2016 00:49, Dale wrote: > > Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: > Hi Dale, > > > I'm not sure on where you got the black screen. If it is when X > > started, did you switch to sddm or some other compatible di

[gentoo-user] x11-apps/xinit-1.3.4-r2 is broken

2017-10-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, In case anyone else trips over this, as I did today in my routine update, see https://bugs.gentoo.org/634706. I followed comment 2. The symptom is that sddm cannot start KDE, so you have to log in and startx. -- Regards, Peter.

[gentoo-user] Where the Plasma shutdown menu option gone?

2018-05-29 Thread Mick
It seems the shutdown, suspend, et al options are gone from the plasma desktop after an update at the end of the week. The user still has the option to logout and then use the sddm menu to shutdown, but other options have disappeared from the the plasma menu. Is there some package missing

[gentoo-user] OT: virtual keyboard and DM

2018-07-16 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Can anyone recommend a virtual keyboard and DM that works on a HiDPI screen?  I have a Microsoft surface4 and have tried sddm and lightdm with xkbd, matchbox-keyboard and florence and cant seem to get a working combination.  They are all too small and don't seem to work nicely or able

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Was: What the devil?!!] sddm shutdown & reboot

2019-06-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 26 June 2019 20:18:55 BST Mick wrote: > All this has left me confused and I'm thinking startx in a terminal is not > such a bad idea after all ... Have you tried the value I gave you? It works fine here. HaltCommand=/sbin/shutdown -h -P now -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] sddm-helper and high memory usage

2020-05-20 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Dale, > > The few times I have issues with "sddm-helper" is when I resume my laptop > from > hibernate. (Not always, but occasionally) > The issue I see is 100% CPU-usage and a black X-display. I can switch to > console (CTRL+ALT+F1), lo

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] eselect-opengl Blockage (with a capital "B") problem

2020-05-20 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Dale, On Wednesday, 2020-05-20 07:10:14 -0500, you wrote: > ... > I did notice that my sddm problem is worse now.  It's worse now than it > was when it first started. Ever tried "x11-misc/lightdm"? Runs like a charm here ... Sincerely, Rainer

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] eselect-opengl Blockage (with a capital "B") problem

2020-05-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
well here. I removed the flag entry everywhere and > then did a emerge world, with the correct options of course. I then > logged out, went to boot runlevel, reloaded the video drivers, went back > to default and logged in. I can't tell any difference here video wise > tho. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE, sddm etc security. Plus LVM question.

2022-03-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 1:50 PM Dale wrote: > Another issue, ctrl+alt+L doesn't trigger xscreensaver but still > triggers KDE's screen saver. It can likely be fixed but the problem > above has to be fixed first. System Settings -> Workspace Behavior -> Screen Locking ?

Re: [gentoo-user] some help with wayland

2023-06-13 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 13 June 2023 01:01:43 BST Wol wrote: > On 10/06/2023 09:44, Michael wrote: > > Without sddm, you can run the startplasma-wayland stanza from a console, > > do > > your thing, logout and the console would have captured various logs - just > > as startx does. &

Re: [gentoo-user] some help with wayland

2023-06-13 Thread Jack
On 2023.06.13 04:52, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 13 June 2023 01:01:43 BST Wol wrote: > On 10/06/2023 09:44, Michael wrote: Without sddm, you can run the startplasma-wayland stanza from a console, do your thing, logout and the console would have captured various logs - just as startx d

Re: [gentoo-user] Every other startup results in a black screen (possibly SDDM related?)

2024-04-03 Thread Jack
obviously booted up. If I switch back to TTY 8 from there it just shows a blinking cursor (i.e. not SDDM, which is what I'd expect). If I reboot from the TTY that lets me log on, the boot process is usually normal and leaves me at the SDDM login. Any tips on how to debug this would be much

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Plasma migration won't launch

2016-05-15 Thread Mick
what I choose, I end up launching Enlightenment. However, I set up .xinitrc for this user and then ran startx from a console. The *unbelievably* ugly Plasma5 started this time, so the problem must be with sddm. According to its config file sddm is looking at /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsession,

Re: [gentoo-user] lightdm - can not login

2021-06-11 Thread thelma
wrote: >>>>> I'm trying to use the default "lightdm" for login but whenever I type-in >>>>> the password it it puts me back to login screen (asking for password) I >>>>> changed/updated the password and the system accept it but I still can

Re: [gentoo-user] Still struggling with starting X and enlightenment desktop

2017-03-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 25/03/2017 18:23, Mick wrote: After years of running KDM to start various desktop environments flawlessly (KDE, fluxbox, enlightenment, plasma) I had to replace it with SDDM. With the arrival of x11-misc/sddm-0.14.0-r2 I am still able to start a session with enlightenment, but I am getting

[gentoo-user] Re: blank (black) screen on kde 5

2016-04-15 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 04/15/2016 12:44 PM, Mick wrote: > On Friday 15 Apr 2016 12:24:46 Francisco Ares wrote: >> Hi, alll. >> >> After upgrading to kde 5 (plasma), there is a big problem. >> >> No matter if I use sddm to mana

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

2016-04-14 Thread Daniel Frey
On 04/14/2016 12:33 AM, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: > > Sddm worked as expected, not to mention its veeery slow interface (for > that nvidia drivers can be blamed, but whatever). The black screen > appeared after logging in. > I didn't have any problems with sddm, but that slow int

Re: [gentoo-user] Endlessly growing xorg-session.log

2018-09-10 Thread Mick
On Monday, 10 September 2018 09:49:16 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I've been suffering some very odd problems recently, including lost e-mails, > but I've finally found something that could explain them all: disk space > down to zero in /home. > > My ~/.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Was: What the devil?!!] sddm shutdown & reboot

2019-06-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
setting it to that should work for modern and ancient systems > > alike :P > > Could it be loginctl is there to confirm if a local button operation > can run / sbin/poweroff, rather than actually running the command as > shown in the sddm config file? No, not when I tried it %

Re: [gentoo-user] escape from i3lock

2019-07-10 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 09:52:55PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 15:23:08 -0400, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > > > Which init are you using, what display manager, and how are you > > launching it? I'm using systemd and sddm, and when I run `i3lock', I

Re: [gentoo-user] escape from i3lock

2019-07-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
X server; but > > again I don't know much about this stuff. > > Which init are you using, what display manager, and how are you > launching it? I'm using systemd and sddm, and when I run `i3lock', I > cannot switch to different virtual consoles. I use slock for this with the s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What the devil?!! [or Plasma teething problems Ia.]

2019-06-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 18:00:22 -0500, »Q« wrote: > > In an OpenRC system there is no loginctl. Consequently, unless we > > define a separate config in /etc/ to use shutdown (with sudo?) it > > won't work. This systemd-ism may be worth a bug report. > > In /us

Re: [gentoo-user] sddm-helper and high memory usage

2020-04-30 Thread Dale
It was already logging me out so to late to stop it.  It > seems that it dropped after I closed Firefox.  I tend to have two > profiles running and they use quite a bit of memory on their own.  The > new thing is sddm using this much as well.  Could Firefox have some > eff

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] eselect-opengl Blockage (with a capital "B") problem

2020-05-20 Thread Dale
Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Dale, > > On Wednesday, 2020-05-20 07:10:14 -0500, you wrote: > >> ... >> I did notice that my sddm problem is worse now.  It's worse now than it >> was when it first started. > Ever tried "x11-misc/lightdm"? Runs like a cha

RE: [gentoo-user] KDE, sddm etc security. Plus LVM question.

2022-03-22 Thread Laurence Perkins
> -Original Message- > From: Rich Freeman > Sent: Monday, March 21, 2022 5:21 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE, sddm etc security. Plus LVM question. > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 8:03 PM Laurence Perkins wrote: > > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE, sddm etc security. Plus LVM question.

2022-03-20 Thread Daniel Frey
On 2022-03-19 01:03, Dale wrote: Howdy, I been thinking.  Yea, that's dangerous.  lol  If I logout of KDE, or have the screen locked, ctrl+alt=L key sequence, how secure is that if I have good passwords that are virtually impossible to crack?  My login manager is sddm.  As a example, if someone

Re: [gentoo-user] KWallet refuses to auto open at login

2023-06-12 Thread Victor Ivanov
On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 at 06:53, Bryan Gardiner wrote: > Are you testing with LightDM and SDDM logins where you type your > password manually, rather than relying on autologin, or fingerprint > readers, etc.? If memory serves me, something needs to pass down the > password to

Re: [gentoo-user] SDDM tmp file goes missing?

2024-01-05 Thread Andreas Fink
On Fri, 5 Jan 2024 08:04:49 +0100 Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jan 2024 at 02:49, Spackman, Chris wrote: > > Any thoughts on possible causes or fixes? > > I've also had this happen a few times over the last months, with error > mails about SDDM tmp files from cron. J

[gentoo-user] Re: entrance login fails

2017-02-19 Thread Mick
pam_gnome_keyring.so > @include common-account > session requiredpam_limits.so > @include common-session > session optionalpam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start > @include common-password > > > In contrast the sddm pam file looks like this: > > $ cat

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-apps/xinit-1.3.4-r2 is broken

2017-10-19 Thread tuxic
On 10/19 10:15, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > In case anyone else trips over this, as I did today in my routine update, > see https://bugs.gentoo.org/634706. I followed comment 2. > > The symptom is that sddm cannot start KDE, so you have to log in and startx.

[gentoo-user] What the devil?!! [or Plasma teething problems Ia.]

2019-06-24 Thread Mick
Can someone please explain how the removal of the 'wireless' USE flag from powerdevil ends up with no buttons for Suspend-to-RAM, Hibernation, Reboot or Shutdown under the Leave tab of the KMenu? What does wireless have to do with those functions which should work regardless? Also, the sddm

Re: [gentoo-user] sddm-helper and high memory usage

2020-05-20 Thread Dale
else I am doing before I >> can logout. Then I have to reopen all that when I log back in. > Why do you have to do that yourself? I'd have thought that sddm would take > care of it for you. It does for me. I have a saved session but if I restart everything at once, my internet chokes and

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE, sddm etc security. Plus LVM question.

2022-03-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 8:03 PM Laurence Perkins wrote: > > The TPM in most computers doesn't dump the keys if someone tries to open the > case to install hardware sniffers. > That's a good point, though if somebody with the ability to sniff the RAM or (to a lesser degree) GPU traffic is after

[gentoo-user] After upgrade no login screen anymore

2023-03-11 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there, After having done a world update, neither sddm nor lightdm do start an Xserver anymore. The X server itself runs fine, I can start it from the console and I after setting DISPLAY properly can even start programs using it, but the login managers do not start X for some reason

Re: [gentoo-user] some help with wayland

2023-06-12 Thread Wol
On 10/06/2023 09:44, Michael wrote: Without sddm, you can run the startplasma-wayland stanza from a console, do your thing, logout and the console would have captured various logs - just as startx does. Does that actually work now? Last I tried I ended up looking for the docu, and found

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-02-28 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 08:53:37PM -0800, Daniel Frey wrote: > After cursing KDE for a while with three monitors, does anyone have any > idea why KDE is so bad at managing multiple monitors? . I ended up adding this to /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup: xrandr --output DVI-D-0 --primary --

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE, sddm etc security. Plus LVM question.

2022-03-19 Thread Dale
  My login >> manager is sddm.  As a example, if someone breaks into my home, is there >> a easy way to get past that?  I recall the old windoze 98 days where a >> certain key sequence would bypass the password prompt.  Is there a way >> known to crooks and such that can bypass o

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE, sddm etc security. Plus LVM question.

2022-03-19 Thread Dale
so-2021-edition/ >>> I have that installed here. Question now is, is that what locks my >>> screen or is KDE/sddm/something else doing that besides xscreensaver. >>> From my poking around, I don't think I'm using xscreensaver. I'm trying >>> to figure out

Re: [gentoo-user] KWallet refuses to auto open at login

2023-06-12 Thread Victor Ivanov
On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 at 09:33, Michael wrote: > > You could try making gnome keyring wait until a login session is up an running > and only run if an application asks for it. Take a look in /etc/pam.d/sddm > (or perhaps /etc/pam.d/sddm-autologin?) then add an 'only_if' conditional

Re: [gentoo-user] Thumbnail thingy generating large xorg-session.log file

2023-12-03 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 3 December 2023 02:18:34 GMT Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Saturday, 2 December 2023 05:41:06 GMT Dale wrote: > > > > Unless you create your own sddm config file in /etc, the sddm package uses > > a default config file. From the man page: > >

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

2016-04-14 Thread J. Roeleveld
not sure on where you got the black screen. If it is when X > >>> started, did you switch to sddm or some other compatible display > >>> manager? The old kdm isn't supported and from what I read, doesn't > >>> work. That may explain the black screen. > >&

[gentoo-user] entrance login fails

2017-02-19 Thread Mick
-session session optionalpam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start @include common-password In contrast the sddm pam file looks like this: $ cat /etc/pam.d/sddm #%PAM-1.0 authinclude system-login account include system-login passwordinclude system-login

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What the devil?!! [or Plasma teething problems Ia.]

2019-06-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 26 June 2019 16:16:36 BST Mick wrote: > On Wednesday, 26 June 2019 15:22:45 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Wednesday, 26 June 2019 11:20:20 BST Mick wrote: > > > I just looked at another installation. The default sddm configuration > > > file (

[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend and Hibernation not working on XFace desktop [SOLVED]

2020-01-17 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
ess on the initial problem was somewhat slow. Eventually I found that $ ck-list-sessions $ just returned nothing. There wasn't any ConsoleKit session running at all! I was using "x11-misc/sddm" as a desktop manager and something had made it stop starting a ConsoleKit session

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server[elogind,-suid] and starting additional Xorg session from running Xorg session

2020-07-23 Thread i.Dark_Templar
raph=y --keep-going" And I did following sequence after emerging xorg-server with different USE-flags before testing it: logout out of X11 session, login into console session as root, restart xdm service (restart sddm), login into KDE session via SDDM. KDE session works fine, but I can't start one

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

2016-04-12 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
sed to change. But those thin, colourless, sometimes abstract lines really make it more difficult to recognise stuff, making it also a UX issue. > > 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

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

2016-04-14 Thread Yuri K. Shatroff
display on vt 7 ... [23:29:06.334] (II) DAEMON: Display server starting... [23:29:06.334] (II) DAEMON: Running: /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/sddm/{baadb08a-2764-4aec-b839-6c2b7283ef79} -background none -noreset -displayfd 17 vt7 [23:29:06.838] (II) DAEMON: Running display setup script

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

2016-04-14 Thread Dale
Adding new display on vt 7 ... [23:29:06.334] (II) DAEMON: Display server starting... [23:29:06.334] (II) DAEMON: Running: /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/sddm/{baadb08a-2764-4aec-b839-6c2b7283ef79} -background none -noreset -displayfd 17 vt7 [23:29:06.838] (II) DAEMON: Running display set

Re: [gentoo-user] Still struggling with starting X and enlightenment desktop

2017-03-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/03/2017 01:24, Mick wrote: On Saturday 25 Mar 2017 21:08:14 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 25/03/2017 18:23, Mick wrote: After years of running KDM to start various desktop environments flawlessly (KDE, fluxbox, enlightenment, plasma) I had to replace it with SDDM. With the arrival of x11-misc

Re: [gentoo-user] Still struggling with starting X and enlightenment desktop

2017-03-25 Thread Mick
On Saturday 25 Mar 2017 21:08:14 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 25/03/2017 18:23, Mick wrote: > > After years of running KDM to start various desktop environments > > flawlessly > > (KDE, fluxbox, enlightenment, plasma) I had to replace it with SDDM. With > > the arrival o

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE, sddm etc security. Plus LVM question.

2022-03-19 Thread Dale
/www.jwz.org/blog/2021/01/i-told-you-so-2021-edition/ >>>> I have that installed here. Question now is, is that what locks my >>>> screen or is KDE/sddm/something else doing that besides xscreensaver. >>>> From my poking around, I don't think I'm using xscreen

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

2017-12-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 21/12/2017 17:41, Jörg Schaible wrote: > Hi, > > after the update and installation of gentoo-sources-4.14.7 my two machines no > longer switch to SDDM on > VT7, it stays on VT1. However, I can switch manually using CTRL-ALT-7 to SDDM > and login as usual. If I boot >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What the devil?!! [or Plasma teething problems Ia.]

2019-06-26 Thread Mick
I didn't expect this - thank you Dale for nudging me in the right direction and thank you all for your suggestions. :-) Next time I login I'll also check if the missing Power Management module mentioned in systemsettings has resolved itself. > > Also, the sddm DM shutdown/reboot buttons

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suspend and Hibernation not working on XFace desktop [SOLVED]

2020-01-17 Thread Mick
nterpretation, you name it that had crept into my init- > ial Gentoo installation. And since I had to fix these anyway, progress > on the initial problem was somewhat slow. > > Eventually I found that > >$ ck-list-sessions >$ > > just returned nothing. T

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 10:15 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > The machine is ~amd64 running Plasma. I log in via SDDM, but even if, instead, > I log in first and then startx I still get no sound. I haven't touched ALSA; > it's whatever Plasma wanted to support its audio process. >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE, sddm etc security. Plus LVM question.

2022-03-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 2:30 PM Laurence Perkins wrote: > > Having it remain unlocked and capable of rebooting unless the accelerometer > showed movement I think was an option since the TPM kept monitoring even if > the mains power was interrupted. > Yeah, there might still be ways to

Re: [gentoo-user] mcomix (really python)

2023-09-07 Thread Arve Barsnes
omic book or > view a pdf? I do have elogind because sddm requires it (have been pondering if I should switch), but I don't have udisks or polkit, so those can at least be controlled with some USE variables. Regards, Arve

Re: [gentoo-user] After upgrade no login screen anymore

2023-03-11 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 11 March 2023 12:03:41 GMT Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Hi there, > > After having done a world update, neither sddm nor lightdm do start an > Xserver anymore. The X server itself runs fine, I can start it from the > console and I after setting DISPLAY properly can even

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-session filled possibly with sddm errors about video files.

2023-12-01 Thread Michael
le output, or find if you can specify this in smplayer's config. Alternatively, if you don't want to approach this from the video player angle, you can look into controlling the log output of sddm: /usr/share/sddm/sddm.conf.d/00default.conf Search the above file to find "# Path to

[gentoo-user] App windows not staying put!

2023-11-24 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi,     I have an odd problem with a server that's been repurposed as a desktop: 2 monitors, main is DP, secondary is HDMI, intel on board video with sddm and xfce4. The problem is the icons and app windows on the second monitor get pushed onto the main monitor when the monitors deep sleep

[gentoo-user] Pain of migrating to plasma5

2016-05-15 Thread Mick
It seems that the plasma5 interface is not to the liking of the previous KDE4 user, and the sddm problems make enlightenment a more appealing proposition. There are however a couple of problems that I don't know how to fix. 1. kwalletd5 will not accept the passwd of the user to perform

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Copying USB->USB: sync after every file

2017-02-05 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 12:20:25PM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Having no time over the week, I finally got the new install running. But > before I was set back by not being able to log in to Plasma with lightdm. > Only sddm works. I really need to lower my sentences’ c

[gentoo-user] Alt+Fn switch console from within X11 session

2016-09-20 Thread Kai Krakow
Hello! I upgraded xorg to 1.18 and during that process also enabled USE=wayland. However, I don't run a wayland session (this actually doesn't seem to work with nvidia). I use sddm as the login manager, and I'm running latest plasma 5.7. The system is booted with systemd. I just came accross

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: SMTP on Kmail-4.14.10 does not work without kde-apps/kwalletd-16.04.3-r1

2017-06-08 Thread Jörg Schaible
nt, since I use kwallet-pam. That one will >> >> start kwallet5 automatically and I am not asked by KMail for passwords >> >> (after it now also uses kwallet5). >> > >> > I'm puzzled: I have kde-plasma/kwallet-pam-5.8.6 installed, but it >> > wil

Re: [gentoo-user] Where the Plasma shutdown menu option gone?

2018-05-29 Thread Daniel Frey
On 2018-05-29 03:40 PM, Mick wrote: It seems the shutdown, suspend, et al options are gone from the plasma desktop after an update at the end of the week. The user still has the option to logout and then use the sddm menu to shutdown, but other options have disappeared from the the plasma menu

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-apps/xinit-1.3.4-r2 is broken

2017-10-19 Thread Stefano Crocco
On giovedì 19 ottobre 2017 11:15:40 CEST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > In case anyone else trips over this, as I did today in my routine update, > see https://bugs.gentoo.org/634706. I followed comment 2. > > The symptom is that sddm cannot start KDE, so you have to

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