From their repo:
Plasma Login
Plasma Login provides a display manager for KDE Plasma, forked from SDDM and with an new frontend providing a greeter, wallpaper plugin integration and System Settings module (KCM).
What we want
- Great out-of-box experience in multi-monitor and high DPI and HDR
- Keyboard layout switching
- Virtual keyboards
- Easy Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Vietnamese (CJK) input
- Screen readers for blind people (which then means volume control)
- Remote (VNC/RDP) support from startup
- Deeper Plasma integration including:
- Display and keyboard brightness control
- Full power management
- Pairing trusted bluetooth devices
- Login to known Wi-Fi for remote LDAP
Very cool. I’m consistently impressed by the KDE devs.
Thank god SDDM is a nightmare
What’s bad about SDDM?
My biggest issue: no support for rdp
Pet peeve: In immutable distros you can’t change the background image… and I happen to strongly dislike Aurora’s artwork. I run Aurora on my work laptop, and my login screen looks like some kind of a bizarre childish acid trip. Embarrassing to say the least, but the distro itself is top notch.
problem with password expiry https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/472
Damn. I wonder when this trickles down to CachyOS and Bazzite.
Quickly in Bazzite, not at all in Cachy since that’s based on Arch.
In Bazzite it’s usually between same day and 24 hours, since the build process is fully automated.
Fedora will be the first distro? Adopting it even faster than KDE Neon, a distro made by KDE itself?
KDE Linux will probably have it first.
Edit: nevermind. https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/350
where are the screenshots
Asking the real questions!
looking forward to it, sddm is the only thing I have left that depends on xorg directly
No custom login theme now, or no theming ever? I will likely want to change a few things
Easy Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Vietnamese (CJK) input
This reminds me of what a pain in the it was for me to get an IME working. I may not be smart, but even accounting for that, it was unnecessarily complicated.
Anyone here with XFCE and lightdm???
If you update from 43 to 44, will it still remove SDDM? Or does it get stuck as part of your user config?
It will depend on how upstream (Fedora Silverblue) implements it. From my understanding, it will straight up replace it, and remove SDDM.
