Really???
No way to turn off the anti-security “feature” showing the name of a login account pre-selected on the GUI login screen in LEAP 42.1, Plasma5, the "improvement" to KDE4?
Am I just not finding something?
If so, direct me to the setting.
Or, is this another forced "improvement"?>:)
Select a different login screen theme.
Default in 13.2 was to show the names also
I did that, but I will check again in case one of them give me that option.
(PS: Not my machine, I am still sticking with 13.1 Evergreen, cause it works properly and does what I want it to.)
Default in 13.2 was to show the names also
Yes, same as 13.1, but you could go into Configure Settings->Login Screen, choose the tab Convenience (the same one where you could Enable Auto-Login or disable it), then under Preselect User, you could choose None, Previous, or Specified.
Could not locate that in LEAP.>:)
Almost EOL though… 
No problem.
When that time comes, it will be subnetted away from the internet and the other machines on the network, except it will still have access to the NAS.
When I want the internet, I will go to the machine that is booted with a non-persistent Puppy Linux Live CD.
The other machines will be some Linux distros. I have not decided which, perhaps even LEAP or a barebones LEAP, and certainly none of them will be running the Plasma5 Desktop.>:)
This way, I will have my multiple desktops with unique widgets, panels, and backgrounds, along with the many other things I like that I personally insist are “bugs” in Plasma5 because they bug the <fill in your own expletive> out of me!
You really have thought this through! Seriously though, I hope they do reinstate some of the features stripped out from the previous iteration of KDE.
Another KDE regression.
I think you guys are coming to conclusions too soon.
Here’s from
man sddm.conf
[Users] section:
DefaultPath=
Default path to set after successfully logging in. Default value is "/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin".
MinimumUid=
Minimum user id of the users to be listed in the user interface. Default value is 1000.
MaximumUid=
Maximum user id of the users to be listed in the user interface. Default value is 60000
So, in systemsettings - Startup and shutdown - SDDM config, I set both min and max to 0. Now check whether this works.
Admitted, this could be much clearer in the user interface.
Exactly. There was a clear configuration interface in KDE for this. There isn’t anymore.
And as I see it, this influenced which users would appear in the list beside the usernam/password fill-in fields. And you could simply switch the list off instead of putting idiot values as list boundaries (more a trick then serious configuring).
It is also IMHO not what the OP asked for. He asked for having no preset username of any kind in the username field. He did not ask anything about showing a list beside the username and password fields. As he explaned there was a choice of
How to achive this with your tricks?
Maybe drop back to KDM. SDDM seems only partial baked
I thought there might be some convoluted way of forcing the issue, but the far superior KDE4 method was a simple checkbox that anyone could use. But, does this include the GUI login screen?
You mean Half-Baked, don’t you? lol!
Good suggestion. Next time I am working on someone’s LEAP machine, I will test that.