Should KDE switch to GDM?

• sddm

  83 1,791 7.6 C++

  QML based X11 and Wayland display manager

  

Let's face the truth, SDDM is basically falling for the cliff for quite some time. It is piling on bugs, commits are very irregular, PRs are not getting reviewed. Just look at this PR, you will get some idea.

• svntogit-packages

  247 321 0.0 Shell

  Discontinued Automatic import of svn 'packages' repo (read-only mirror)

  

Last release is from November 2020, that time it caused a major breakage for my system. To this day, SDDM has not made a bug fix release of that version, Archlinux devs are patching the packages so that we might be able to use KDE.

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• lightdm

  2 7 10.0 C++

  Login screen using the LightDM framework. (by KDE)

  

I've said it in the past and I'm happy to repeat myself: The best option for Plasma is still LightDM with a custom greeter, just as it was common in the later Plasma 4 days when KDM was still the default but deprecated in the real world. So dusting off LightDM-KDE, picking up another Qt-based greeter such as https://github.com/firatakandere/lightdm-dynamic-greeter, or build one from scratch is certainly what should be done.

• lightdm-dynamic-greeter

  1 4 4.7 C++

  Qt-based LightDM Greeter with dynamic wallpapers that changes based on time.

I've said it in the past and I'm happy to repeat myself: The best option for Plasma is still LightDM with a custom greeter, just as it was common in the later Plasma 4 days when KDM was still the default but deprecated in the real world. So dusting off LightDM-KDE, picking up another Qt-based greeter such as https://github.com/firatakandere/lightdm-dynamic-greeter, or build one from scratch is certainly what should be done.

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