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rezad

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Registered: 2014-09-17

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using a GUI login manager without xorg?

is there any GUI login manager without needing xorg?
as in if I remove xorg-server and the login manager stays?
sddm or gdm get removed.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: using a GUI login manager without xorg?

How much "GUI"?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Display_manager
There're several TUI ones and greetd/dlm will operate on the framebuffer.

A decade ago, there was "qingy", but idk whether it's still maintained or works at all on "modern" environments.

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rezad

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Re: using a GUI login manager without xorg?

I meant from the graphical section of the article.
I will test greetd.

rezad

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Re: using a GUI login manager without xorg?

I installed and restarted my laptop
but it just goes to cmd login
and restarting the greetd serverice just goes back to cmd login

seth

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Re: using a GUI login manager without xorg?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Greetd
Did you also install and enable a greeter?

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rezad

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Re: using a GUI login manager without xorg?

yeah sorry.
I am trying to see if I can use the qt one.

UPDATE: it wokred with qtgreet.
the gtkgreet still need user to input the startplasma-x/wayland command.