On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 10:55:02PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > I guess I'm finished, at least until I'm motivated to see if sddm > will build / work without systemd. > Well, yes, it does. I put it into /usr, set up a desktop file for icewm in /usr/share/xsession, and copied the plasma.desktop file from /opt/kf5. I also set it up to run in runlevel 5, the same as we do for kdm. Fortunately, I did not make runlevel 5 the default (so, 'telinit 5' to try it).
On my first attempt, I got an icewm desktop, and after I logged out the reboot icon worked and a shutdown icon was visible. But later I lost those, I'm not at all clear what happened (I tried creating an /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf to my own /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/11-keyboard.conf to see if that would replace the american flag and (presumably) american keyboard in sddm [ my icewm session has the expected british map ] ). I also tried the fallback option, and got what appeared to be xterm on a black background - I was able to 'exit' back to sddm. But what I cannot do is invoke plasma in /opt/kf5 - my .xsession is loaded (I start xscreensaver from that, so I know it has loaded), but then I just get a blank screen and need to use MagicSysRQ or Alt-Fn and a root shell to kill sddm. Summary - it looks a promising DM, and if you build qt5 (well, you have to for this) it is lightweight. But it looks as if putting kf5 (and perhaps qt5) in anywhere except /usr is NOT going to work with sddm (I tried symlinking the kf5 progs from /usr/bin, no change), and I do not yet understand why the reboot/shutdown options disappeared, nor how to get the correct keyboard in sddm - for my own password, a US keymap is as good as a british map, but for other keyboard maps (e.g. qwertz, azerty) that will not be ok. I did try putting fr_FR.UTF-8 in /etc/locale.conf (there is a suggestion that is used because sddm assumes most people will be using systemd) but I still had a qwerty keyboard not azerty. I'll come back to this after I've built plasma and qt5 in /usr on my test system. Might be some weeks (or months) away. ĸen -- This one goes up to eleven! -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
