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philipW

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Registered: 2017-03-21

Posts: 145

sddm duplicate login screen

hello,

I have arch installed on my laptop and sometimes i plugin my desktop monitors when i work from home.
I plugin one screen in the hdmi port and the other in the mini display port.
When i boot i have the sddm login screen on all of my monitors and this annoys the cr*p out of me.
Is there a way to have sddm display only on 1 screen instead of 3 when i have my monitors plugged in?

Xwang

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From: EU

Registered: 2012-05-14

Posts: 419

Re: sddm duplicate login screen

It interests me too.

applebaps

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From: Alaska

Registered: 2017-10-19

Posts: 28

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Re: sddm duplicate login screen

Can we please see the contents of your /etc/sddm.conf?

fuyuki

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Registered: 2017-10-20

Posts: 23

Re: sddm duplicate login screen

If it's just duplicating the screen, you could always temporarily disable all but one display before your desktop session starts. Google shows a number of ways to do that.

You should also be able to do it through systemd, maybe by adding an appropriate script as a service WantedBy=display-manager.service? I don't know, I don't have a second display to test with. However, making it reliant upon display-manager.service would have the benefit of making it apply to any display manager you use in the future, as well.

Last edited by fuyuki (2017-10-22 03:17:21)

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seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 78,869

Re: sddm duplicate login screen

/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xrandr

The simple solution though is to ignore the other screens ...

@fuyuki - please don't suggest generic googles to newbies if you can link the arch wiki. The next post is usually "help! my system doesn't boot!" ;-)

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