On 06/03/2015 01:07 PM, Roderick Johnstone wrote:

On 03/06/2015 16:54, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

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On Wed, 2015-06-03 at 09:40 +0100, Roderick Johnstone wrote:

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Hi

How do I set the default session type for sddm to offer to be Plasma?

I'm currently getting Gnome Classic? This is F22.

Select Plasma on the login screen. Login. That's it. The next time it should be preselected to Plasma.

poc

Thanks for responding Patrick, but I was hoping to be able to have this pre-configured at install time so that I didn't have to go round all my users and show them how to do that.

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That *should* be a setting in /etc/sddm.conf but I don't actually see it in the man page. Hmmm.....

Dan

On 03/06/2015 21:09, Gerald B. Cox wrote:

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Dan Mossor <danofsatx@gmail.com mailto:danofsatx@gmail.com> wrote:

That *should* be a setting in /etc/sddm.conf but I don't actually
see it in the man page. Hmmm.....

Check here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SDDM

You want to edit /etc/sddm.conf

under [Autologin] Session=plasma.desktop

If you want to change the theme: under [Theme] Current=breeze CursorTheme=breeze_cursors

Thanks, but I already tried that, and also copied the Session=plasma.desktop to the [General] section of sddm.conf as I'm not using autologin, just in case that worked. It doesn't work for me. Does it work for you?

The kickstart docs at: https://github.com/rhinstaller/pykickstart/blob/master/docs/kickstart-docs.r... still say to put xconfig --defaultdesktop=KDE in the kickstart file.

That creates /etc/sysconfig/desktop with a line: DESKTOP=KDE but that doesn't work either (it used to work when I was using kdm).

I've also tried variations with DESKTOP=Plasma and with KDE and Plasma in quotes.

So I'm a bit stuck.

Roderick

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Gerald B. Cox gbcox@bzb.us wrote:

Just for grins, try kde-plasma.desktop

I was thinking we weren't using the right value for session=... I had the same problem when setting the cursor until I stumbled upon the correct value, and I got kde-plasma.desktop from the sddm.log; however when I switched to that it then just displayed plasma.desktop so I'm not sure what is the correct value.

According to the doc, this only comes into play the first time, so my testing of it was invalid... it appeared to work because it was being ignored in my case.

Here is another link I found: https://www.mankier.com/5/sddm.conf

I'll keep looking, but if you do figure out what is going on, please post here... I'm curious now...

The Theme cursor settings I posted earlier are accurate and do work, if that is any consolation... ;-)

Dan Mossor wrote:

That *should* be a setting in /etc/sddm.conf but I don't actually see it in the man page. Hmmm.....

Unfortunately, this is STILL not supported in upstream SDDM: https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/326 https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/346

Kevin Kofler

On Jun 3, 2015 12:07 PM, "Roderick Johnstone" rmj@ast.cam.ac.uk wrote:

On 03/06/2015 16:54, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

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On Wed, 2015-06-03 at 09:40 +0100, Roderick Johnstone wrote:

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Hi

How do I set the default session type for sddm to offer to be Plasma?

I'm currently getting Gnome Classic? This is F22.

Select Plasma on the login screen. Login. That's it. The next time it should be preselected to Plasma.

poc

Thanks for responding Patrick, but I was hoping to be able to have this

pre-configured at install time so that I didn't have to go round all my users and show them how to do that.

Roderick

Just out of curiosity , are all of your users kde-only? It doesn't address your question, but if the only DE installed is the only one they want, they'll always get what they want :)

--Pete

Hello,

I was facing the same problem as mentioned in https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kde@lists.fedoraproject.org/th...

and found a solution (sorry for having this topic awakend from the sleeping beauty):

in /var/lib/sddm/state.conf is the preselected session set, so use this content for xfce as first choice (if you have something like puppet running you can enforce this file content):

[Last] # Name of the session for the last logged-in user. # This session will be preselected when the login screen appears. Session=/usr/share/xsessions/xfce.desktop

And the /etc/sysconfig/desktop file is read in /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients If you add there a line at the top like

STARTXFCE="$(type -p startxfce4)"

and in the following if-conditional :

if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then

. /etc/sysconfig/desktop     if [ "$DESKTOP" = XFCE ]; then

PREFERRED="$STARTXFCE"

and then change the "if" before the GNOME  line into "elif"

Kind regards

Sven