Version: (using Devel) OS: Linux Installed from: Compiled sources Changing from GNOME to KDE is a pain in the neck. I would like to change this and I document my problems here. I have installed a pure GNOME desktop, now I have compiled kdesupport, kdelibs, kdepimlibs and kdebase. Here are the problems: * Starting kdm results in just nothing. No error message, but the screen remaining as it is. I think there should be an error message at least.
krusty:/etc/init.d # startproc -p /var/run/kdm.pid /usr/bin/kdm krusty:/etc/init.d # echo $? 7 krusty:/etc/init.d # cat /var/log/kdm.log ******************************************************************************** Note that your system uses syslog. All of kdm's internally generated messages (i.e., not from libraries and external programs/scripts it uses) go to the daemon.* syslog facility; check your syslog configuration to find out to which file(s) it is logged. ******************************************************************************** krusty:/etc/init.d # what does this mean now?
Now calling kdm just works. I do not know what I changed or why it works now. Anyway I cannot log in because I get "root logins are not allowed".
# man syslog sound like a terribly good idea, if you ask me.
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/