Can the new plasma-login-manager be configured?

[callegar]

I have followed the instructions to move to the new plasma-login-manager, apart from the fact that I have not yet removed the sddm package. I have a few questions…

1. Notwithstanding the fact that I have a KCM library inside the package I seem to get no specific configuration window in the plasma system settings system. Is this expected?
2. I cannot find the /usr/lib/plasmalogin/defaults.conf file that according to the plasma-login-manager README in its git repo contains the default configuration and documents the tunables.
3. There is no hint on whether users can be hidden from the login screen as it was the case for sddm. I have some dummy users taking specific admin roles (e.g. managing a texlive distro on /usr/local) and I would like only the regular users to appear on the login screen.

Any hint?

[linux-aarhus]

The plasma-login-manager is a raw experiment, not a finished application.

You should look into the System Settings → Session for configuration (as I recall fiddling with it a week ago)

[scotty65]

@callegar

I have followed the instructions to move to the new plasma-login-manager

Please advise how you installed plasma-login-manager, because your profile says that you are on Stable branch, and the package has only reached Unstable & Testing branches so far:

mbn info plasma-login-manager -q | grep -Ev 'Name|Repository|Packager'
Branch         : unstable
Version        : 6.5.91-1
Build Date     : Wed 28 Jan 2026 08:04:03 
Branch         : testing
Version        : 6.5.91-1
Build Date     : Wed 28 Jan 2026 08:04:03 

_{mbn can be found in the manjaro-check-repos package}

Instructions for Testing branch were included in the 2026-01-26 update announcement:

@philm

KDE Plasma users with SDDM can now migrate to Plasma Login Manager

After ensuring plasma-login-manager 6.5.90-1 (or newer) is installed, run the following:

sudo pacman -Syu plasma-login-manager
systemctl disable sddm
systemctl enable plasmalogin
sudo pacman -R sddm-kcm sddm

If installed the correct way via Manjaro’s repos, you should have the settings available in System Settings → Security & Privacy → Login Screen:

Note that this is only an early release version of plasma-login-manager. Some features may not be available until it is officially included in Plasma 6.6, which will be released on the 17th of February.