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On 04/04/16 05:06, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o> wrote: |
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>> If you normally use KDM to launch Plasma, note that it is no longer |
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>> supported. |
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>> Upstream recommends x11-misc/sddm instead which is pulled in by |
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>> plasma-meta by |
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>> default. To switch, edit /etc/conf.d/xdm and update DISPLAYMANAGER. |
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> Didn't we previously recommend using lightdm? I'm sure migrating is |
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> trivial but perhaps some kind of note about this might be useful? I |
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> suspect that the instructions for migrating from lightdm->sddm are the |
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> same as kdm->sddm. |
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The default in KDE 4 was KDM, with lightdm and sddm also supported. |
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We included information about migrating away from KDM because it's no |
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longer developed or supported and in some cases fails to work with |
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Plasma 5 at all. |
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lightdm continues to work fine with Plasma 5 so there's no special need |
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to replace it. |
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