On 2014-02-24 22:34 (GMT+0100) Guido Berhoerster composed:
Felix Miata composed:
Does it have its own working greeter? If so, by what name in
No, it requires a greeter and its dependencies ensure that either lightdm-gtk-greeter or lightdm-kde-greeter will be installed when you install lightdm.
/etc/sysconfig/displaymanager? The help text in that file is little help. This is what I tried that does not result in any greeter when graphical.target is active:
## Type: string(kdm,kdm3,kdm4,xdm,gdm,wdm,entrance,console) ## Default: "" # # Here you can set the default Display manager (kdm/xdm/gdm/wdm/entrance/console). # all changes in this file require a restart of the displaymanager # DISPLAYMANAGER="lightdm"
That is correct. What happens when you boot up, just a blank console? If so, you're probably affected by https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=846832 Does it come up when you log in on a console and start it manually via systemctl restart xdm?
I actually had two problems, which I apparently didn't quite finish segregating before my OP. Apparently there is some problem when using the xf86-video-sis driver appropriate for the XGI Z7/Z9 gfxchip. Using FBDEV, the greeter comes up, bug there is no icon to indicate clicking on IceWM would allow me to select KDE. The box above it only says password, so there's no way to select a user. This absence is understandable, because initially there was only the root user available on this test installation ATM (see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833253 ). However: 1-nothing happens as a result of clicking or <enter> after typing the root password 2-each "*" resulting from typing password characters looks like it is done in 3pt (mouse)type 3-all text on the screen is too small, cumulatively taking up maybe 0.5% of total screen space at most In short, KDE is currently unreachable via lightdm, so far. # man lightdm.conf No manual entry for lightdm.conf # man users.conf No manual entry for users.conf # lightdm-set-defaults <cnf response> # dm-tool <cnf response> # cat /etc/lightdm/lightdm-kde-greeter cat: /etc/lightdm/lightdm-kde-greeter: no such file or directory I changed minimum-uid in users.conf from 1000 to 0, added my usual complement of users (>5), then restarted the DM, and rebooted. Now the first user image is in the center of the screen, the 5th is half off screen, and the one I actually want is not visible. Looking at lightdm.conf and users.conf it isn't obvious how to do with lightdm much of what I set to do or not do in kdmrc: AllowNullPasswd=true AllowRootLogin=true AntiAliasing=true ConsoleTTYs=tty1,tty2,tty3,tty4,tty5,tty6 FocusPasswd=true HiddenUsers= LogoArea=Clock NoPassAllUsers=true NoPassEnable=true NoPassUsers=* NumLock=On PreselectUser=Previous ReserveServers=:1,:2,:3 SelectedUsers=root,one,two,three,four ServerVTs=-7 ShowUsers=Selected SortUsers=true TerminateServer=true Theme= UserCompletion=true UserList=true UseTheme=false FailFont=Sans Serif,13,5,0,75,0 GreetFont=Sans Serif,24,5,0,50,0 StdFont=Sans Serif,12,5,0,50,0 In addition to getting it to behave as KDM can, I'd like to eradicate Suspend and Hibernate from the greeter, as most of my installations are on multiboot test desktops, where both are effectively taboo and never used. Google has been minimal help finding me useful docs on lightdm configuration, particularly poor on opensuse.org. :-( -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org