On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 07:08:46PM -0700, Kenneth Harrison wrote: > > Ken in testing sddm, have you found any instabilities with the login > sessions where sddm either locks up when selecting languages, > sessions, and users, doesn't log in the session and loops back to > itself, or outright crashes back to the getty terminal? > > When I tested sddm a while ago (around a few weeks ago) on > Slackware64-Current with Eric Hameleers' KDE5/Plasma packages, I, and > others, noted that there were these instances where sddm simply did > not function as well as KDM. I think we had versions sddm-kcm-5.3.2 > and sddm-qt-0.11.0 available at the time of testing. > > I figured I'd share my experience with you if it would be of any > insight and help. > > -Kenny
Hi Kenny, I haven't seen any lockups, and for me it will not crash back to getty because I'm starting it similarly to how BLFS starts kde4 - just run it from /etc/inittab in runlevel 5. I say similarly because in fact I use a script which fires up sddm from dbus-launch. If I hit a key when my mouse has pulled down the keyboard selection in the default theme (Maui?), the regular Enter is not treated correctly and there _is_ a message about login failing - but that is hard to notice. I also noticed the lack of a regular mouse cursor (arrow) when I was playing with the archlinux theme (I got a 'X' cursor) - no idea why, I could not see anything obvious in the code. So, overall the whole thing is definitely fragile. But it uses qt5 (newer, shiny ;-) so what's not to like ? [ yeah, don't start me to talkin' ] But I have seen some apparently random behaviour - I finally found that one of the shipped themes (the one starting with 'e' - I'm not at that box at the moment) _does_ have a suspend icon (s2ram), which works (with upower and pm-utils) : that theme also has a hibernate icon, but my machine is not set up for that. But after rebuilding sddm without the gentoo hack for suspend (I confirmed it is not necessary for me) and re-enabling that theme (my install overwrites /etc/sddm.conf), on the next login the top-line boxes for session and keyboard from the default maui theme were visible with the new theme. Unfortunately I cannot run the parts of plasma which I have built unless I use 'startx' from runlevel 3, because of the "all these things are in /opt/kf5 which is not on the PATHs" issue. So I'm not using sddm-kcm. Also, my attempts to test themes using sddm-greeter from a term within a desktop are not working. I suspect thing may well be different if qt5 as well as sddm is in /usr. For BLFS, sddm-0.11.0 is the version Armin tarred up for his systemd book. I'm not sure how that relates to the version you were using (the joys of projects which do not formally release tarballs). When I get back to that machine I'll be trying to draw icons in the gimp (I finally managed to draw a ring or hoop, i.e. the outline of a circle, an hour or so ago). For me, tiny icons are indistinct - I blame my large screen rather than my eyesight. Now I need to create my own icons for reboot, poweroff, suspend and login. 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
