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fedora 30 kdm busted?

Wacom tablets on the XFCE desktop

F30 Release Notes incomplete?

Tom Horsley

Friday, 3 May 2019 Fri, 3 May '19

8:36 a.m.

I tried switching from gdm to kdm and the kdm "login" came up as nothing but an apparent password entry field in the top left corner of the screen (at least all it did was echo dots when I typed in it). Switched to xdm, and that works much better.

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Ed Greshko

Friday, 3 May Fri, 3 May

9:07 a.m.

On 5/3/19 9:36 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:

I tried switching from gdm to kdm and the kdm "login" came up as nothing but an apparent password entry field in the top left corner of the screen (at least all it did was echo dots when I typed in it). Switched to xdm, and that works much better.

"systemctl status kdm" to check the error. I don't use kdm, so I'll leave it to you to bugzilla it. -- Right: I dislike the default color scheme Wrong: What idiot picked the default color scheme

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Ed Greshko

9:32 a.m.

On 5/3/19 10:07 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:

On 5/3/19 9:36 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > I tried switching from gdm to kdm and the kdm "login" > came up as nothing but an apparent password entry > field in the top left corner of the screen (at least > all it did was echo dots when I typed in it). > > Switched to xdm, and that works much better. "systemctl status kdm" to check the error. I don't use kdm, so I'll leave it to you to bugzilla it.

Oh, I forgot to mention that I think testing of kdm is no longer part of release testing and the plan, AFAIK, was to eliminate it from the distribution at some point. You probably should ask about it on the KDE list if it is important to you. Now that I think about it more, I doubt a BZ will get much attention. -- Right: I dislike the default color scheme Wrong: What idiot picked the default color scheme

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Patrick O'Callaghan

10:17 a.m.

On Fri, 2019-05-03 at 09:36 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:

I tried switching from gdm to kdm and the kdm "login" came up as nothing but an apparent password entry field in the top left corner of the screen (at least all it did was echo dots when I typed in it). Switched to xdm, and that works much better.

The recommended one for KDE/Plasma is SDDM. I think KDM is no longer actively maintained. poc

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Ian Pilcher

Sunday, 5 May Sun, 5 May

1:30 p.m.

On 5/3/19 10:17 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

The recommended one for KDE/Plasma is SDDM. I think KDM is no longer actively maintained.

Yes, and SDDM doesn't support XDMCP, so ... -- ======================================================================== Ian Pilcher arequipeno(a)gmail.com -------- "I grew up before Mark Zuckerberg invented friendship" -------- ========================================================================

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Christopher Ross

Friday, 3 May Fri, 3 May

12:08 p.m.

On 03/05/2019 14:36, Tom Horsley wrote:

I tried switching from gdm to kdm and the kdm "login" came up as nothing but an apparent password entry field in the top left corner of the screen (at least all it did was echo dots when I typed in it). Switched to xdm, and that works much better.

I had exactly he same symptoms with kdm so switched to sddm. That works fine for me. Regards, Chris R.

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Mark C. Allman

Saturday, 4 May Sat, 4 May

8:20 p.m.

On 5/3/19 1:08 PM, Christopher Ross wrote:

On 03/05/2019 14:36, Tom Horsley wrote: > I tried switching from gdm to kdm and the kdm "login" came up as > nothing but an apparent password entry field in the top left corner > of the screen (at least all it did was echo dots when I typed in it). > Switched to xdm, and that works much better. I had exactly he same symptoms with kdm so switched to sddm. That works fine for me. Regards, Chris R.

In addition to disabling the kdm.service and enabling the sddm.service, I also needed to add a local selinux policy because sddm_greeter (I think it was that) wasn't able to write to ~/.Xauthority. I actually allso needed to ditch qt5-qtvirtualkeyboard. Nice if you need it though. There's probably a way to disable it from constantly popping up on the login screen but I have other, more pressing F30 issues to chase down. *Mark C. Allman, PMP, CSM* Founder, See How You Ski, www.seehowyouski.com <http://www.seehowyouski.com> Sr. Project Manager, Allman Professional Consulting, Inc., www.allmanpc.com <http://www.allmanpc.com> 617-947-4263, Twitter: @allmanpc

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Christopher Ross
Ed Greshko
Ian Pilcher
Mark C. Allman
Patrick O'Callaghan
Tom Horsley