http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1168251
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1168251#c6
Fabian Vogt
Hello Wolfgang, I do not agree.
1.) As of today kdm (correct me if I am wrong) is the only window manager
Nitpick: kdm is a display manager. A window manager would be KWin.
that allows me two X - sessions in two windows on the same machine. This is a feature I use since decades as this allows my wife and me a super-quick access to the respective desktop environment without logging in / logging out. Strg-Alt F7 / Strg-Alt F8 and you are good
You can do the same with most other display managers as well. Simply choose "Switch User" in the menu and then "New session". I know that this works with sddm.
2.) I know the tool "kcmshell" you suggested. Tried it over and over again. Have you ever tried to change *anything* with it? Whatever I enter there it has no effect at all - do not ask me why. I tried to change fontsize - nope, tried to download other Themes (Get new themes: "XXX kann nicht installiert werden - Datei nicht gefunden" the theme is downloaded but not found after download, maybe because it is written into kde-root but expected in kde-<username>, I do not know for sure) - nope - this is broken IMHO. I was really glad to find out that I could modify the behavior by modifying elarun.xml accordingly.
Maybe some kauth stuff got broken there.
Due to 1.) I would very much appreciate if the basic functionality could be kept - and fixed by adding a simple png or jpeg file into the distribution. And - even more important - that kdm would not be dismissed.
KDM is already dropped from Leap 15.2 and Tumbleweed, so you'll have to switch away sooner or later. In the meantime, you can keep the local modification to elarun.xml, but I recommend to lock (zypper addlock kdm) the package so that it doesn't get replaced by accident.
Thank you for looking into this best
Dieter
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