On Sunday 15 May 2016 12:22:20 you wrote: > On Sunday 15 May 2016 06:53:08 Gregory Woodbury wrote: > > Just on a hunch: check that /var/lib/sddm exists and is owned by the sddm > > user. This bit me (through my own fault) just a week ago. > > I have not messed about with the sddm defaults other than creating a > (default) conf file for it and editing > /usr/lib64/qt5/qml/SddmComponents/PasswordBox.qml to fix the mouse focus > onto the passwd field when it starts. > > # ls -la /var/lib/sddm > total 4 > drwxr-xr-x 1 sddm root 74 May 14 19:02 . > drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 414 May 14 23:03 .. > drwxr-xr-x 1 sddm sddm 20 May 14 19:01 .cache > drwx------ 1 sddm sddm 22 May 14 19:01 .dbus > -rw------- 1 sddm sddm 0 May 15 11:50 .xsession-errors > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 300 May 15 10:02 state.conf
Today I was fiddling around with various settings to see what gives and almost fell off my seat when sddm launched Plasma for the first time! It transpires that this happened after I modified something in the Exec line of /usr/share/xsessions/enlightenment.desktop and broke it. Then I (almost) fell again off my seat, because from this point onwards sddm would ONLY launch plasma no matter what other session I selected from the drop down menu. O_o I experimented by disabling /usr/share/xsessions/plasma.desktop, but sddm would not change the session displayed by default, or actually launched. Eventually, I manually edited /var/lib/sddm/state.conf before I was able to launch a different window manager. Now this can't be right. Is sddm writing only once in /var/lib/sddm/state.conf and then it can't/won't refresh it? I have added sddm to the video group. As far as I can tell there are no differences with other PCs of mine that work fine with sddm. What could be wrong? -- Regards, Mick
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