How to start KDE (plasma 5) desktop with GDM ?

[Manish Jain]

Hi,

I am on FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT (r316508) and am building KDE5 desktop with
area51 ports.

Since KDE5 does not have its own display manager yet, is it possible to
get gdm (the display manager already in use) to start KDE instead of
Gnome. I have gdm_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf.

Thanks for any help.
Manish Jain
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[Ultima]

KDE5's display manager is known as Simple Desktop Display Manager or
sddm. x11/sddm is the port.

I am having trouble remembering if installing the port will by default
launch plasma5-plasma.If it doesn't reply and ill give some more direction.
Also, I suggest adding kde-f...@freebsd.org for kde related topics.

Ultima

On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 5:24 AM, Manish Jain <bourne....@hotmail.com>
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[Ultima]

Correction, kde-f...@kde.org is the kde mailing list.

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[Polytropon]

On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 09:24:01 +0000, Manish Jain wrote:
> Since KDE5 does not have its own display manager yet, is it possible to
> get gdm (the display manager already in use) to start KDE instead of
> Gnome. I have gdm_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf.

My experiences with gdm (and Gnome in general for that case)
are quite bad: It seems you cannot start anything but Gnome
with gdm, and it does totally ignore .xinitrc and .xsession,
forcing you to get your "autostart" programs configured
manually from within the Gnome session.

Why not temporarily use xdm? It uses .xsession (or .xinitrc,
if you add an "execution cascade") where you can put the
correct command line to start KDE 5. For testing, it's also
possible to use ye olde "startx" command (uses .xinitrc).

I didn't investigate the gdm issue any further, because I
tend to abandon software that heavily disappoints me. ;-)



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[Matthias Apitz]

El día sábado, abril 15, 2017 a las 09:10:18p. m. +0200, Polytropon escribió:

> My experiences with gdm (and Gnome in general for that case)
> are quite bad: It seems you cannot start anything but Gnome
> with gdm, and it does totally ignore .xinitrc and .xsession,
> forcing you to get your "autostart" programs configured
> manually from within the Gnome session.
>
> Why not temporarily use xdm? It uses .xsession (or .xinitrc,
> if you add an "execution cascade") where you can put the
> correct command line to start KDE 5. For testing, it's also
> possible to use ye olde "startx" command (uses .xinitrc).
>
> I didn't investigate the gdm issue any further, because I
> tend to abandon software that heavily disappoints me. ;-)
>

For *many* years now I always do login on the normal console and run
'startx' to bring up KDE.

matthias

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