Marc Chamberlin composed on 2022-06-26 00:22 (UTC-0700):
On 6/25/22 15:54, Felix Miata wrote:
Try instead:
WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/bin/icewm startx
Once in an IceWM session you should be able to disable automatic login either using YaST, or possibly systemsettings5 (if it doesn't require kdeinit5 to run).
On boot to login prompt, you should be able to use text mode YaST to disable automatic login.
Hi Felix, Found it, the ability to enable/disable automatic logins is buried in YaST2 under Security and Users > User and Group Management > Expert Options > Login Settings. Rather difficult to remember that, since I don't use it very often. Anywise I turned off Auto Login and Passwordless Logins and am now seeing the login prompt screen after a reboot. When I enter my credentials the screen goes blank and after a few seconds the Xbox with them message about the kdeinit5 failure, is shown.
Now it should be a simple matter to run IceWM or some other session besides Plasma via selection from the login greeter, either to your regular login, or a virgin alternate user. At this point, it might be worth using update-alternatives to switch from SDDM to LightDM, in order to ensure the kdeinit5 problem is not some failure on the part of SDDM enabling auth for the Plasma session.
Please show output from:
ls -Gg /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ cat /etc/X11/*.conf cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50*conf
OK HTHs...
Everything there looks normal, no suggestion of a failure point I recognize. To be sure, you could temporarily rename /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d to something else, but that looks like a seriously slim slim slim possibility. What's in there is mostly oddball stuff for antique hardware, and lots of comments (e.g. all the 2011 files). -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata