What DisplayManager (DM) do you use for login and such?

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I’m anticipating X11 outliving me, or xlibre being viable somewhere, if not in openSUSE, which is my primary OS, not my only.

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Last week I did a fresh Tumbleweed installation on my desktop machine:

  • no x11 only wayland
  • no display-/login-manager
  • startplasma-wayland in .profile

So far it works fine.

43

Does this mean you login by TTY or such?

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Yes, login is by CLI (on tty1). When I logout from the GUI (wayland) I’m back on the CLI.

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OK. You do

How do you power-off? From DE or from CLI (TTY)? (Just out of interest.)

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For me I just press the MacBook power button or via ssh, or if logged in, can shutdown from the ashell menu.

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The CLI-Login will bring me directly to the GUI (Plasma6) and in the GUI I can

  • press “Shut Down” to poweroff the system
  • press “Restart” to re-boot the system
  • press “Log out” to get back to the CLI but being still logged in as user so I can call startplasma-wayland again to go back to the GUI.
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Perhaps Sonic-Win/Sonic-DE might eventually provide a path for continuing with X11: The SonicDE project is here to pick up the baton, fix bugs, and make improvements to KWin/X11. - see https://github.com/Sonic-DE/sonic-win.

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Nice!

  • That means, if you really want to log-out, you first exit the DE (GUI) session (back on CLI (TTY), and then have to log-out there?
  • Can you lock the session when in DE (GUI)?
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Yes, that’s the way I use it. However I could put

startplasma-wayland && logout

instead of plain

startplasma-wayland

in my .profile. In that case a logout in the GUI would be immediately followed by a logout on the CLI as well.

Yes.

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