"Plasma Login Manager" should be mentioned in wiki

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I think the new “Plasma Login Manager” should be described also here…

(I’m not sure how to Edit the wiki page.)

Anyway, here is some additional information somebody might find useful:

How to find out which display manager is configured on your system:

grep '/usr/s\?bin' /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service

If the answer is…

ExecStart=/usr/bin/lightdm

…you can switch to plasmalogin by these steps…

sudo pacman -Syu plasma-login-manager
systemctl disable lightdm
systemctl enable plasmalogin
sudo pacman -R lightdm-slick-greeter lightdm-settings lightdm

Restart

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After a huge screwup this morning due to me messing up part of my automation system so it restarted the wrong display manager, this gives me a far safer way to restart the correct display manager.

That was three hours of my life I’ll never get back, purely due to my own multiple stupidities.

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@wiki

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Plasma Login Added.

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only

systemctl status display-manager

note : my dm is not in wiki list, i use ly (<-wiki arch)
https://codeberg.org/fairyglade/ly

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Very… 1980s… :face_with_spiral_eyes:

:face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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And I am using greetd and greetd-tuigreet because it gives me the option of launching a given command e.g. bash which - when in connection with a unified kernel - makes it great for troubleshooting as the system is almost 100% guaranteed to boot.

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It’s more 1960’s… :peace_symbol:

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No, because then it would have had to be all-green or all-amber. :wink:

You can do the same by editing the kernel command line in grub so that it says “init=/usr/bin/bash” at the end. :wink:

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Yes - if I used grub - but I don’t - I boot the system directly from UEFI using a unified kernel efi stub.

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