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 Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 7:45 am Post subject: Plasma5: impossible to change SDDM theme |
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Hi
So I've just emerge Plasma5 and so far, I really like it. However, there are a few issues I still haven't figured out. For instance, when I select a different SDDM theme in the Plasma configuration, it does not take effect. Instead, it still shows the standard (which isn't, like I wanted, Brise), but something completely different.
Also, under KDE 4, when I changed the theme it asked for the root password (which makes sense), but Plasma 5 doesn't, so I'm assuming that's where things went wrong. But I don't know how to solve the issue. Is it possible I'm missing some packages (kdesu is installed)?
Thanks for your help
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Roman_Gruber
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| Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 8:36 am Post subject: |
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| HAve you tried with a clean home directory? or with a new user and see if it happens there? |
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keba
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Yes I have. The home directory is clean. The SDDM configuration should ask for a root password, right? I mean it's a system setting, not a user setting...
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| Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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| keba wrote: | | Yes I have. The home directory is clean. The SDDM configuration should ask for a root password, right? I mean it's a system setting, not a user setting... |
I believe the issue relates to sddm expecting logind (related to systemd) and it working best with it. One way is try changing the config through the sddm.conf file (which you may have to create yourself but with which there is a way to generate a sample config -- see the man page or other docs).
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SDDM
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SDDM
edit: Also I actually have systemd and the sddm configuration within systemsettings5 is just very glitchy. Sometimes it appears, sometimes it doesn't. It's very temperamental. I have no idea why but just to warn you... |
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| That seems to be one of the caveats if you use openrc and sddm-0.11.0-r1 with consolekit1. I recently migrated my production Thinkpad to plasma-5 but that has one or two problems of its own so couldn't reliably test behaviour with consolekit2 yet. |
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I had the same problem on my arch laptop. The problem was that I had forgot to create a default config for sddm. It's not being created with the installation. I don't use sddm on my Gentoo box yet, so I don't know if the config is automatically being created or not.
If it doesn't exists, you can create it manually with this command...
| Quote: | | # sddm --example-config > /etc/sddm.conf |
With the default config I was able to change the sddm theme via the KCM. |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks, that actually helped! In my case it was not a missing sddm.conf, but an ancient one. Been playing around with it at the very beginning of the project. |
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keba
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The missing config file explains everything... I would have expected it to be created during installation, but doing it manually afterwards is ok too, I guess. Something to put in the Plasma 5 Upgrade Wiki page I guess. Thanks a lot.[/u]
Speaking of Plasma 5: My user is in the plugdev group but it still wants the root password to mount drives. Has anyone here had that issue/does someone know how to solve it?
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| Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2015 7:24 am Post subject: |
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KCM still doesn't let me change the theme. It claims I don't have permissions (I changed the sddm.conf permissions to rw-rw-r-- using chmod). Is some kind of part in Plasma 5 missing that's supposed to ask me for the password?
It appears that even other parts of Plasma's KCM (which do ask me for a root password) do not accept it when I type it. Strange...
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| Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2015 7:56 am Post subject: |
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| If you use openrc, unmask latest sddm-0.11.0-r2 and consolekit-1.0.0 (which is actually consolekit2). |
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keba
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Ok, I'll try that
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Genstorm, thank you soo much!That worked!
I unmasked:
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=sys-auth/sddm-0.11.0-r2
=x11-misc/consolekit-1.0.0
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Then, I updated them, but I also had to re-emerge sddm-kcm:
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emerge -u sddm consolekit
emerge -1 sddm-kcm
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I still can't mount USB drives as a normal user though. I'm assuming that's also related to consolekit2 (v. 1.0.0), but do I need to re-emerge something and if so, what?
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me too with ssdm and i can't mount usb and several programs like smplayer, qbittorrent, transmission don't start on normal user, but yes with root( sudo).
i have changed to consolekit-1.0.0 and sddm 0.11.0-r2 and remains the problem 
https://tinyurl.com/ohflc8g
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It might be enough to re-emerge the programs that aren't working yet. Unfortunately, that means re-emerging most of plasma5
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yesterday plasma was updated to 5.4.1 and today the same thing 
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| Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2015 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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I was able to change themes by running System Settings as root:
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| papu wrote: | me too with ssdm and i can't mount usb and several programs like smplayer, qbittorrent, transmission don't start on normal user, but yes with root( sudo).
i have changed to consolekit-1.0.0 and sddm 0.11.0-r2 and remains the problem
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the problem of programs that not start on user is resolved(smplayer rocks!) with last update of kde-frameworks to 5.14.0, it can't automount usb but on the other hand from dolphin now i can acces to it.
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