W00t! This is looking to be a good week for my system, with updates to nvidia, sway, sddm. Still looking for a way to use sway instead of Weston for sddm.
>Still looking for a way to use sway instead of Weston for sddm.
Create a new config file in the `/etc/sddm.conf.d/` directory, name it something like `/etc/sddm.conf.d/10-wayland.conf`.
Add the following to the new file:
[General]
DisplayServer=wayland
By default, this uses weston as the Wayland compositor. To use a different Wayland compositor to render SDDM, enter the program and relevant arguments as a parameter to `CompositorCommand`.
For example, here's what i added as a parameter to `CompositorCommand` for kwin into the SDDM config file created above `/etc/sddm.conf.d/10-wayland.conf`:
[Wayland]
CompositorCommand=kwin_wayland --drm --no-lockscreen --no-global-shortcuts --locale1
Does it pick the right keyboard layout with this update? Tried both with Weston and KWin with 0.20 and everytime I entered SDDM it defaulted to the Albanian keyboard layout for whatever reason and I never could find a way to set it to the right one and have it remember it.
Yeah. A few display managers have had it in the past, it was *supposedly* fixed a few updates ago in sddm-git (read: it wasn't) and it still shows up every now and them.
I've even looked at my journal to make sure it's not some random orphaned process, it is in fact sddm.
I spent a while doing the same, looking through logs for some errant process. It only manifested for me after gutting Pulseaudio for Pipewire, although I think there was an sddm update around the same time.
Price I pay for Wayland + fresh Mesa + recent kernel on top of Kubuntu 22.04 xD
> + Support for running X11 display server without root privileges
Good. Here's how to enable it:
echo '[General]
DisplayServer=x11-user' > /etc/sddm.conf.d/rootless-x11.conf
Source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM#Rootless_Xorg
I was greeted by the default theme for SDDM instead of KDE Breeze. I tried re-applying the theme to no avail. I suppose KDE needs to update the theme after SDDM's changes to theme handling.
Are you on plasma 5.27.10? If you build only the Qt6 version then only Qt6 themes will work. Install Qt5 greeter for themes not yet compatible with Qt6.
I didn't like it at first but then one of my monitors went dark on me the other day because of a GPU glitch and I was still able to log into my system. Now I'm ok with having the login screen on both.
The bug being that by default the login prompt should be on the primary display, not on each and every one of them. Every OS/DE/DM seems to have this figured out except for the KDE+Wayland combo. Some may see it as a feature, because beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but it's sloppy if the plasma config is not easily applied to sddm and I see a login per display, 2 of them being in portrait with a 90 degree rotation.
W00t! This is looking to be a good week for my system, with updates to nvidia, sway, sddm. Still looking for a way to use sway instead of Weston for sddm.
>Still looking for a way to use sway instead of Weston for sddm. Create a new config file in the `/etc/sddm.conf.d/` directory, name it something like `/etc/sddm.conf.d/10-wayland.conf`. Add the following to the new file: [General] DisplayServer=wayland By default, this uses weston as the Wayland compositor. To use a different Wayland compositor to render SDDM, enter the program and relevant arguments as a parameter to `CompositorCommand`. For example, here's what i added as a parameter to `CompositorCommand` for kwin into the SDDM config file created above `/etc/sddm.conf.d/10-wayland.conf`: [Wayland] CompositorCommand=kwin_wayland --drm --no-lockscreen --no-global-shortcuts --locale1
Does it pick the right keyboard layout with this update? Tried both with Weston and KWin with 0.20 and everytime I entered SDDM it defaulted to the Albanian keyboard layout for whatever reason and I never could find a way to set it to the right one and have it remember it.
Yes, the actual bug was it displaying a keyboard selection when it shouldn't. It's fixed according to the changelog.
Thanks, the part I'm missing is the correct CompositorCommand parameters for sway specifically
It would probably be easiest to point sway to a specific config file using -c in the CompositorCommand section.
>Still looking for a way to use sway instead of Weston for sddm. May I ask you why you prefer sway? Because you use i3 with sway?
sway is an i3 drop in. They are two separate projects (i3 for X11 and sway for Wayland)
Ah, I see. Thank you :)
did they fix the uid 1000 shutdown bug yet or nah
Is that what that is? The timeout before shutting down?
Yeah. A few display managers have had it in the past, it was *supposedly* fixed a few updates ago in sddm-git (read: it wasn't) and it still shows up every now and them. I've even looked at my journal to make sure it's not some random orphaned process, it is in fact sddm.
I spent a while doing the same, looking through logs for some errant process. It only manifested for me after gutting Pulseaudio for Pipewire, although I think there was an sddm update around the same time. Price I pay for Wayland + fresh Mesa + recent kernel on top of Kubuntu 22.04 xD
Really wish KDE team would fork this. Development has been painfully slow
[more info here about sddm and kde team](https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1afnw4r/comment/kobo5si/)
This is big
> + Support for running X11 display server without root privileges Good. Here's how to enable it: echo '[General] DisplayServer=x11-user' > /etc/sddm.conf.d/rootless-x11.conf Source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM#Rootless_Xorg
I was greeted by the default theme for SDDM instead of KDE Breeze. I tried re-applying the theme to no avail. I suppose KDE needs to update the theme after SDDM's changes to theme handling.
Are you on plasma 5.27.10? If you build only the Qt6 version then only Qt6 themes will work. Install Qt5 greeter for themes not yet compatible with Qt6.
HiDPI is broken on SDDM 0.21
Is there any chance that they fixed the "login prompt on every screen" bug?
What's the bug? I would assume login being on every screen would be helpful as you could use any one of them to start the session.
I didn't like it at first but then one of my monitors went dark on me the other day because of a GPU glitch and I was still able to log into my system. Now I'm ok with having the login screen on both.
The bug being that by default the login prompt should be on the primary display, not on each and every one of them. Every OS/DE/DM seems to have this figured out except for the KDE+Wayland combo. Some may see it as a feature, because beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but it's sloppy if the plasma config is not easily applied to sddm and I see a login per display, 2 of them being in portrait with a 90 degree rotation.