A way to drop into shell/terminal from KDE login screen?

2020-08-01 Thread local10
Hi, Is there a way to drop into shell/terminal from the KDE login screen? Under "Sessions" dropdown I just have "Plasma" and that's it. I'm using sddm and X11. Any ideas? Thanks # echo "It's a Debian Buster PC"; uname -a It's a Debian Buster PC Linux tst 4.19.0-10-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.132-1

Re: A way to drop into shell/terminal from KDE login screen?

2020-08-01 Thread luca.pedrielli
you mean this? https://wiki.debian.org/Console Il 01/08/20 17:42, local10 ha scritto: Hi, Is there a way to drop into shell/terminal from the KDE login screen? Under "Sessions" dropdown I just have "Plasma" and that's it. I'm using sddm and X11. Any ideas? Thanks # echo "It's a Debian Buste

Re: A way to drop into shell/terminal from KDE login screen?

2020-08-01 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
local10 writes: > Hi, > > Is there a way to drop into shell/terminal from the KDE login screen? Under > "Sessions" dropdown I just have "Plasma" and that's it. I'm using sddm and > X11. > Do you mean like how SuSE used to provide an option to authenticate, then draw an xterm on the DM window w

[SOLVED] Re: A way to drop into shell/terminal from KDE login screen?

2020-08-01 Thread local10
Aug 1, 2020, 17:01 by ago...@gmail.com: > you mean this? > > https://wiki.debian.org/Console > Yes, this is exactly what I meant. In previous versions of KDE login screen (or kddm perhaps) there was an explicit menu option to drop into console, it's gone now. I was using it for so long I forgot