SDDM¶
Simple Desktop Display Manager is the display manager for X11 and Wayland window systems. SDDM was written when kde version 5 published from scratch in C ++ 11 and supports theme via QML. SDDM is free and open source software that is subject to the GNU General Public License version two or later.
Installation¶
SDDM can be installed via master repositories of SulinOS
sh ~# inary it sddm
This installation adds system sddm user as mentioned on SDDM Documentation.
Invoking¶
Configuration¶
This part a copy of Gentoo wiki pages. As mentioned Gentoo Wiki: SDDM has two configuration files: the package installed /usr/share/sddm/sddm.conf.d/00default.conf and /etc/sddm.conf which is used to override specific options. The second is not created by the package. KDE Plasma writes user changed options to /etc/sddm.conf. Both files have the same format. See comments in the file and man 5 sddm.conf for details on available options.
Keymap¶
To select the correct keymap on the login screen, add following lines to the /etc/sddm.conf file:
`/etc/sddm.conf`
.. code-block:: shell
[X11] DisplayCommand=/etc/sddm/scripts/Xsetup
This file is not created automatically when the package is installed so you’ll need to create it if you haven’t done so already.
Next create the directory /etc/sddm/scripts
root #mkdir -p /etc/sddm/scripts
and the file /etc/sddm/scripts/Xsetup
`/etc/sddm/scripts/Xsetup`
.. code-block:: shell
setxkbmap gb,us
the first country code is the default. Finally set execute permissions on the file /etc/sddm/scripts/Xsetup.
root #chmod a+x /etc/sddm/scripts/Xsetup