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piedro

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Registered: 2013-04-11

Posts: 218

SDDM starts on tty1 instead of tty7 and asks for gnome keyring pass

Hello!

1. As it says in the wiki to make KDE or GNOME start on tty7 I have to add:

/etc/sddm.conf

[XDisplay]
MinimumVT=7

This does not work.

I'd rather like it to start on tty7 because I can watch the system messages on tty1. I am sure there is a more easy way to watch the system output so I'd be happy to hear about it (as I could leave the sddm settings untouched...)

2. Also when I login to gnome the gnome-keyring always wants to have my legitimation.

Now there are many posts about that. But I just don't get it. I tried the settings suggested for pam.d from the Arch Wiki on gnome keyring. (But to be honest I am not even sure whether it is correct to configure pam.d...)

Probably I just have to add to "/etc/sddm.conf" to open the gnome-keyring automatically with logging in a gnome session. But how to do that?

Thx for some help here,
piedro

LCvanDinteren

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2015-10-27

Posts: 153

Re: SDDM starts on tty1 instead of tty7 and asks for gnome keyring pass

I don't know what exactly shows on tty1 for system messages, but I suppose it could be the same as /var/log/syslog?
If this is the case, you can simply open a terminal and tail the syslog file, not having to mess with tty at all.

Try the following commands:

tail -f /var/log/syslog
tail -f /var/log/messages

or have a look at the watch command.

I hope this is what you're looking for.

piedro

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Registered: 2013-04-11

Posts: 218

Re: SDDM starts on tty1 instead of tty7 and asks for gnome keyring pass

thx for your answer.

But none of your commands work, both give me:

"file or directory doesn't exist...", I guess I have to use systemctl to read boot messages and stuff.

Sure, I know, there a ways to bring log info up. But why should I start x on a console that already has some useful information? Please, let's not discuss my motivation... what I want, might be utterly stupid.

Let's just assume I do not want to start my x-sessions on tty1.

In the wiki it says i can use "MinimumVT'=5" in sddm.conf but that does not work.
What is the correct way of starting the graphical sessions from tty5 and upwards?

thx, p.

p.s: Way more important is to start gnome-keyring with SDDM. Any insight?

Xabre

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2009-03-19

Posts: 752

Re: SDDM starts on tty1 instead of tty7 and asks for gnome keyring pass

It's not syslog, systemd uses journald. If you add systemd hook to your initcpio, you'll be able to see even those very early messages via journalctl.

Alo, I suspect that appearance of SDDM on first tty regardless of [XDisplay] setting is a result of SDDM using wayland in recent few versions (GDM does the same thing, unless you disable wayland support).

Last edited by Xabre (2015-11-09 18:52:08)

LCvanDinteren

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2015-10-27

Posts: 153

Re: SDDM starts on tty1 instead of tty7 and asks for gnome keyring pass

thx for your answer.

But none of your commands work, both give me:

"file or directory doesn't exist...", I guess I have to use systemctl to read boot messages and stuff.

Ah right, I'm sorry, was on my Ubuntu when I was testing the commands...

Sure, I know, there a ways to bring log info up. But why should I start x on a console that already has some useful information? Please, let's not discuss my motivation... what I want, might be utterly stupid.

Let's just assume I do not want to start my x-sessions on tty1.

In your first post you said you'd be happy to hear about other ways to view the logs.

In the wiki it says i can use "MinimumVT'=5" in sddm.conf but that does not work.
What is the correct way of starting the graphical sessions from tty5 and upwards?

thx, p.

p.s: Way more important is to start gnome-keyring with SDDM. Any insight?

I have no knowledge of this, sorry. Just wanted to share my (apparently) failure on syslog xD

piedro

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Registered: 2013-04-11

Posts: 218

Re: SDDM starts on tty1 instead of tty7 and asks for gnome keyring pass

Sry, man, I did not want to sound salty here,

I am happy to hear about alternatives... though it honestly occurred to me that this might have been a stupid thing for me to ask at this moment (cause it is obviously a completely unconnected issue...).

I should asked more focused questions and deal with one (of my many) gaps in knowledge at a time.

So thanks again for filling in,
p.

Last edited by piedro (2015-11-10 12:42:40)

piedro

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Registered: 2013-04-11

Posts: 218

Re: SDDM starts on tty1 instead of tty7 and asks for gnome keyring pass

@xabre:

Thx for the clarification.

So there is a change in place here to prepare for future changes (that have no effect yet) breaking the present behaviour. It's a bit funny... and a bit sad... I am glad this doesn't happen with important stuff...

Well, I will wait for the next wayland iteration then before looking into this again.
But I will add the hook to "mkinitcpio.conf" and enable it!

Cheers, p.

Last edited by piedro (2015-11-09 19:35:18)