Bug 131584

Summary:	More intelligent choice of preselected user
Product:	kdm	Reporter:	Szokovacs Robert <szo>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdm bugs tracker <kdm-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Szokovacs Robert 2006-07-31 14:10:46 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.4)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

Wether or not KDM should allow multiple logins per user is discussed in 103046. Whatever will be the decision on that, I think the typical use is one session per user and KDM should reflect that: instead of storing only one previous user and preselecting it, it should maintain a longer list of recent users and choosing the most active user for preselection, but _excluding_ the currently logged in users. My wife and I use the same workstation and only 50% of the time the preselection is good, I thing the method above would improve it.

Comment 1 Oswald Buddenhagen 2006-10-13 19:06:12 UTC

sounds a bit like overkill, but in principle you're right.

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2018-04-16 20:22:08 UTC

KDM is unmaintained and not used in KDE Plasma 5.

SDDM is the login manager used in KDE Plasma 5. If you still have this same issue with SDDM, please file an issue on the SDDM bugtracker (after doing a search for existing issues first!): https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/