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On Friday 15 Apr 2016 10:43:26 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 14/04/2016 21:39, Mick wrote: |
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> > I don't have NVidia or use the full plasma desktop environment on my |
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> > laptop (I use enlightenment instead with a Radeon card). However, I have |
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> > not added sddm to the video group and have not noticed anything undue in |
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> > my logs. I have however noticed that sddm is slightly slower than kdm. |
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> > Why is the video group needed? What does it do? |
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> It's a simple group permission scheme to allow users access to advanced |
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> features on the video card, like what compositing does. |
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I'd understand this if sddm was using hardware acceleration to play some video |
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or snazzy graphics while login in. It looks rather static to me, unless it |
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uses the card to scroll between user icons ... ? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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