On 3.1.2018. 23:43, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Armin K. wrote:
On 3.1.2018. 22:45, Armin K. wrote:
Still, Arch seems to have got sddm 0.17.0 working. What are the issues
you're running into with it? If it's something systemd-related, you may
always try installing elogind, a standalone systemd-logind package by
(you guessed it) Gentoo devs. If that's not an issue, I suspect
non-standard Qt install BLFS recommends (try installing it in /usr and
with plugin/qml/etc paths similar to Arch).
I suspect it does have something to do with installing qt/xorg in /opt,
but to me it is a fatal mistake to depend on directories and not use
PATH and /etc/ld.so.conf.
If plasma, xfce, lxqt, lxde, sawfish, gnome, fluxbox, icewm, openbox,
lightdm, gdm, and lxdm can work with minor, if any, changes when qt and
xorg are in /opt, then why can't sddm?
OTOH, I freely admit that I may have done something wrong when
building/configuring sddm.
My guess is that Qt is the strange guy here, and SDDM won't pick it up
when it's not in the same prefix as Qt itself. You'll need to do similar
config as done for KDE Plasma, and let SDDM know you have it (somehow).
If you don't have any input, my guess is that SDDM only uses
QT_PLUGIN_PATH/QML_IMPORT_PATH/whatever relative to its prefix. After
all, how BLFS instructs people to build Qt and Xorg isn't common
scenario out there, so don't be surprised if it breaks (and no, I don't
think people who don't write apps (where display manager isn't an app,
but a system service) have some Qt dev version installed in their home dir).
I was able to get it to come up by sourcing /etc/profile in the sddm
boot script which does set the PATH. But then it would not respond to
the keyboard or mouse clicks.
But it is not just me. See
http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/10119
https://github.com/elogind/elogind/releases
Oh, and if you're up for it and if you get elogind to work, you can then
build and use GNOME on non-systemd system, according to
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Elogind
Something to consider for the next cycle after our scheduled March
release. Adding gnome to the System V book will be a lot of work.
I'll also note that lightdm has more than the gtk based greeter.
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LightDM/
-- Bruce
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