The SDDM team is proud to announce the release 0.20.0 of SDDM,
the Simple Desktop Display Manager.
The list of changes is also available in our CHANGELOG file:
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/blob/v0....
Adds a Wayland greeter and should fix some long standing bugs relating to slow shutdowns in KDE.
Well, sure this. SDDM is basically KDE’s display manager and it’s good that another “plasma component” (it isn’t a KDE project yet, but it will soon be taken over from what I know) is moving over to Wayland.
This also fixes a very annoying bug in which Plasma (under Wayland) refuses to shut down and it would take 1.5 minutes to for your system to shut down. 1.5 minutes is the time limit at which systemd automatically kills the process, because SDDM can’t die in peace.
I forgot to say, that you can also work around this by pressing ctrl + alt + f1 during shutdown. (so switching to TTY 1) For whatever reason, this causes SDDM to work normally, stop in peace and allows systemd to shut the rest of the system down like it’s supposed to. Without it having to go kill the process.
I SAY YES TO THE WAYLAND GREETER!
What does this actually mean for users?, Just less X dependencies? or anything practical
Well, sure this. SDDM is basically KDE’s display manager and it’s good that another “plasma component” (it isn’t a KDE project yet, but it will soon be taken over from what I know) is moving over to Wayland. This also fixes a very annoying bug in which Plasma (under Wayland) refuses to shut down and it would take 1.5 minutes to for your system to shut down. 1.5 minutes is the time limit at which systemd automatically kills the process, because SDDM can’t die in peace.
This is configurable I assume… If that bug happened to me I would go mad very quickly and find a way to change the setting… :)
I forgot to say, that you can also work around this by pressing ctrl + alt + f1 during shutdown. (so switching to TTY 1) For whatever reason, this causes SDDM to work normally, stop in peace and allows systemd to shut the rest of the system down like it’s supposed to. Without it having to go kill the process.
Probably nothing for users who can’t tell difference between X & Wayland. Some may notice performance improvement.
For someone like me, I am just excited about trying out new stuff, and building a system without X is one!