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On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 21:19:30 +0100 |
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Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 08:30:48 -0500, »Q« wrote: |
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> > > > > That's because kdm is dead. I found sddm a little flakey. On |
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> > > > > my laptop it works more or less as expected, but on my |
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> > > > > desktop, selecting reboot or power off from the desktop drops |
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> > > > > me back to sddm without rebooting. I'm nit sure if this is an |
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> > > > > issue with sddm or plasma, maybe I'll try slim instead. |
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> > > > SDDM was doing that to me too until I created a default |
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> > > > config. |
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> > > That appears to have worked, thanks. |
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> > I have a default config, but I can't reboot or shutdown from sddm. |
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> > If I press one of those buttons, a 30-second timer starts. |
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> > Pressing more buttons to try to skip the timer just restarts the |
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> > timer. Letting the timer run down, it gets to zero then goes |
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> > beyond, into negative integers. |
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> That's a different problem, mine was that I couldn't reboot or |
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> shutdown fro the desktop, it dropped me back as sddm as if I'd |
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> selected Logout. Then I could shutdown from sddm. |
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Thanks -- I understood you the first time but had forgotten what you |
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said by the time I replied downthread. D'oh! |
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My automatically-created sddm.conf has |
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[General] |
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HaltCommand=/sbin/shutdown -h -P now |
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Numlock=none |
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RebootCommand=/sbin/shutdown -r now |
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which looks alright to me. I'll try troubleshooting this later, but if |
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anyone has any suggestions I'd appreciate them any time. |
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