Plasma Login provides a display manager for KDE Plasma, forked from SDDM and with an new frontend providing a greeter, wallpaper plugin integration and System Settings module (KCM).
Systemd is a hard requirement for future plans, see https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-login-manager/-/issues/48
- Great out-of-box experience in multi-monitor and high DPI and HDR
- Keyboard layout switching
- Virtual keyboards
- Easy Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Vietnamese (CJK) input
- Screen readers for blind people (which then means volume control)
- Remote (VNC/RDP) support from startup
- Deeper Plasma integration including:
- Display and keyboard brightness control
- Full power management
- Pairing trusted bluetooth devices
- Login to known Wi-Fi for remote LDAP
To try Plasma Login, you can build both repositories and install them on your system.
Caution
It is not recommended to run the git latest this on your system — you should use a virtual machine instead. Installing this on real hardware will leave behind files not trivially uninstallable and could leave your system in a non-functional state.
You will need to:
- On Arch Linux, install
base-devel,git,cmakeandextra-cmake-modules - Clone, build and install:
git clone https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-login-manager.git
cmake -S plasma-login-manager -B plasma-login-manager/build && sudo make install -C plasma-login-manager/build- Trigger the system user to be created:
sudo systemd-sysusers- Disable SDDM and enable Plasma Login:
sudo systemctl disable sddm
sudo systemctl enable plasmalogin- …and finally reboot.
The Plasma Login frontend is configured by users through /etc/plasmalogin.conf, which overrides distro-provided defaults at /usr/lib/plasmalogin/defaults.conf. In managed scenarios, the latter file can be modified to set a default wallpaper or login session, with the settings module disabled via Kiosk.
