Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Plasma migration won't launch

[Mick]

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?
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Regards,
Mick