Kde 5 sddm

Raevyn · 09-10-2015, 05:53 PM

Hello All!

So I downloaded Kubuntu 15.04 with KDE 5.. and I like it mostly but I have a few issues.

The first one and kind of a big one is SDDM.. the new replacement for KDM, does not appear to offer the ability to shut down to console. Is this something I can add to a config file?

jdkaye · 09-12-2015, 12:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Raevyn

Hello All!

So I downloaded Kubuntu 15.04 with KDE 5.. and I like it mostly but I have a few issues.

The first one and kind of a big one is SDDM.. the new replacement for KDM, does not appear to offer the ability to shut down to console. Is this something I can add to a config file?

I'm not quite sure what you mean by "the ability to shut down to console". Are you talking about the tty's that you access by typing ctrl-alt-F1, ctrl-alt-F2, ...?
Are you talking about using konsole?
If you are talking about booting into recovery mode (i.e. directly into a tty) then you do that from the grub menu.

jdk

Raevyn · 09-16-2015, 07:58 PM

Well.. yes I mean the TTYs but not booting into those but rather closing X down from the SDDM login screen. KDM has that feature. Im not sure I am making sense.. I can make a screenshot of what I mean if need be just let me know!

jdkaye · 09-16-2015, 11:27 PM

When you get to the SDDM login screen you have a series of options in the pull down menu on the left. "Plasma" gets you into the KDE environment, Gnome Flashback Metacity is another option. What other options do you have? I think there's one called "Fall back" but I'm not sure what it does.
I'm still not really sure what you want to do. You can boot directly into a tty by selecting that choice from the Grub menu when you start up your machine. You can leave your DE at any time by just using ctl-alt-F1 to get into a tty. You can then shut down SDDM from there.

As I said I'm not really sure what you're trying to accomplish.
jdk

Timothy Miller · 09-17-2015, 12:09 AM

He's trying to boot to SDDM, but then have the ability to essentially click "shut down x server" so that it would revert to the TTY for when he doesn't need an X session. I would love to know if this is possible or planned for SDDM as well, although not horrendously important to me, I would like the ability to kill off X from SDDM on rare occassion.

jdkaye · 09-17-2015, 11:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Timothy Miller

He's trying to boot to SDDM, but then have the ability to essentially click "shut down x server" so that it would revert to the TTY for when he doesn't need an X session. I would love to know if this is possible or planned for SDDM as well, although not horrendously important to me, I would like the ability to kill off X from SDDM on rare occassion.

Maybe this? (run from a tty)

Code:

systemctl stop sddm

jdk

sharkmann1 · 12-30-2015, 06:41 PM

I am not sure, but I guess you want a console without a window manager already running. If so, try adding this to /usr/share/xsessions/ as a file called x.desktop.

Code:

 
[Desktop Entry]
Name=X
Comment=Log in using X without a window manager
Exec=/usr/bin/xterm
TryExec=/usr/bin/xterm
Icon=openbox
Type=Application

Reboot and SDDM should have "X" as an option.
That should give you a window with xterm running, but no window manager.
That is what I use to start a WM, such as Blackbox, that I cannot get SDDM to recognize by just using an entry in xsessions. I do not know much about SDDM, so that is the fix I use to cover for my lack of knowledge of SDDM.