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colinkeenan

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From: Kansas City, MO USA

Registered: 2013-06-13

Posts: 213

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sddm moved from AUR and now doesn't include sddm.conf?

I'm glad to see that sddm is finally in Community instead AUR. I've been using it a long time and install it whenever installing Arch on a friend's computer. This time, I was surprised to see that there's no sddm.conf.

Here's the output of 'pacman -Ql sddm | grep etc'

    sddm /etc/
    sddm /etc/dbus-1/
    sddm /etc/dbus-1/system.d/
    sddm /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.DisplayManager.conf
    sddm /etc/pam.d/
    sddm /etc/pam.d/sddm
    sddm /etc/pam.d/sddm-autologin
    sddm /etc/pam.d/sddm-greeter

Notice that '/etc/sddm.conf' is not on the list.

How should I customize sddm? For example, how to set AutoUser? Is there some new method involving systemd?

Or, is this a bug of the version in Community? Should it have included '/etc/sddm.conf'?

I have reported a bug: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/42592

Last edited by colinkeenan (2014-10-29 01:50:20)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 12,583

Re: sddm moved from AUR and now doesn't include sddm.conf?

touch /etc/sddm.conf

Problem solved.

arojas

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From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,190

Re: sddm moved from AUR and now doesn't include sddm.conf?

It also didn't include it before it was moved to community, it's an unpstream decision. Run

# sddm --example-config > /etc/sddm.conf

colinkeenan

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From: Kansas City, MO USA

Registered: 2013-06-13

Posts: 213

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Re: sddm moved from AUR and now doesn't include sddm.conf?

Thanks. I have filed an upstream bug: https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/301

wolfdogg

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From: Portland, OR, USA

Registered: 2011-05-21

Posts: 545

Re: sddm moved from AUR and now doesn't include sddm.conf?

thanks.  11 months later.. same.. generating it works though :-)

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WorMzy

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From: Scotland

Registered: 2010-06-16

Posts: 12,704

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Re: sddm moved from AUR and now doesn't include sddm.conf?

Please don't necrobump, Wolfdogg, you have been here long enough to know better.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … bumping.22

Closing.

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