On Tuesday, April 12, 2016 07:53:34 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 13:21:37 -0500, Dale wrote: > > Oh, I had to switch to sddm for this too. You just change the setting > > from kdm to sddm and it just works. It looks different but it works > > fine. That may have carried over some settings. It selected the user > > and was ready for my password just like kdm did. Again, it looks > > different but it seems to work the same. I suspect one could adjust the > > settings, somewhere, and make it look like kdm if they wanted to. > > That's because kdm is dead. I found sddm a little flakey. On my laptop it > works more or less as expected, but on my desktop, selecting reboot or > power off from the desktop drops me back to sddm without rebooting. I'm > nit sure if this is an issue with sddm or plasma, maybe I'll try slim > instead.
That could also be caused by polkit, consolekit or similar not allowing the reboot on your desktop. -- Joost
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