From their repo:
Plasma Login
Plasma Login provides a display manager for KDE Plasma, forked from SDDM and with an new frontend providing a greeter, wallpaper plugin integration and System Settings module (KCM).
What we want
- Great out-of-box experience in multi-monitor and high DPI and HDR
- Keyboard layout switching
- Virtual keyboards
- Easy Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Vietnamese (CJK) input
- Screen readers for blind people (which then means volume control)
- Remote (VNC/RDP) support from startup
- Deeper Plasma integration including:
- Display and keyboard brightness control
- Full power management
- Pairing trusted bluetooth devices
- Login to known Wi-Fi for remote LDAP
Anyone here with XFCE and lightdm???
No AI? Are they allowed to do that? Are you sure?
- Types in username and password
“Perfect! You are now logged into your computer. Enjoy your desktop!”
- Nothing happens. Try to log in again
“You’re absolutely right, I failed to log you in while claiming you had actually logged in. Good catch! I’ll log you into your system now. Have fun!”
- Nothing happens
Made me laugh
Already created a issue ticket /s
I demand a KoChauffeur+ button. How are we supposed to login to our computer without a
slopchatbox!?
Very cool. I’m consistently impressed by the KDE devs.
Thank god SDDM is a nightmare
Damn. I wonder when this trickles down to CachyOS and Bazzite.
Quickly in Bazzite, not at all in Cachy since that’s based on Arch.
In Bazzite it’s usually between same day and 24 hours, since the build process is fully automated.
looking forward to it, sddm is the only thing I have left that depends on xorg directly
You can set it to use Wayland!
it didn’t work for me when I tried it so I’m sitting out till the new thing is available
Fedora will be the first distro? Adopting it even faster than KDE Neon, a distro made by KDE itself?
KDE Linux will probably have it first.
Edit: nevermind. https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/350
meanwhile I just want to go back to blank/black lockscreen with no visual cues and you just type the password and nothing happens of it’s wrong, but I’ve been quite sick of trying to look up how to do forgotten things I had on older systems only to get AI slop guides that ramble on with a hallucinated life story and either never getting to the point of just not working.
I wish no visuals could just be a setting on all distros
check out Ly, its default is a black screen https://github.com/fairyglade/ly
where are the screenshots
Asking the real questions!
Easy Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Vietnamese (CJK) input
This reminds me of what a pain in the it was for me to get an IME working. I may not be smart, but even accounting for that, it was unnecessarily complicated.
No custom login theme now, or no theming ever? I will likely want to change a few things
Where are you getting this?
“The move replaces SDDM but means giving up on custom login themes.”
— It’s FOSS
Could just mean that it will apply plasma’s theme
AI hallucination probably
This made me aware of this option in the first place. Just swapped it in on my desktop and it already feels less jank.
Great decision on Fedoras part. My laptop is running KDE fedora so can’t wait til it gets this update.
