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QML based X11 and Wayland display manager
https://github.com/sddm/sddm

qml qtquick wayland xorg

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QML based X11 and Wayland display manager

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## INTRODUCTION



[![IRC Network](https://img.shields.io/badge/irc-freenode-blue.svg "IRC Freenode")](https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=sddm)



SDDM is a modern display manager for X11 and Wayland sessions aiming to

be fast, simple and beautiful.

It uses modern technologies like QtQuick, which in turn gives the designer the ability to

create smooth, animated user interfaces.



SDDM is extremely themeable. We put no restrictions on the user interface design,

it is completely up to the designer. We simply provide a few callbacks to the user interface

which can be used for authentication, suspend etc.



To further ease theme creation we provide some premade components like a textbox,

a combox etc.



There are a few sample themes distributed with SDDM.

They can be used as a starting point for new themes.



## SCREENSHOTS



![sample screenshot](https://raw.github.com/sddm/sddm/master/src/greeter/theme/maui.jpg)



## VIDEOS



* [Video background](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwz2FQcE3c)

* [Maui theme 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0d1wkcU9DU)

* [Maui theme 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ28mrOeuNA)



## RESOURCES



* [Issue tracker](https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues)

* [Wiki](https://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki)

* [Mailing List](https://groups.google.com/group/sddm-devel)

* IRC channel `#sddm` on [chat.freenode.net](https://webchat.freenode.net?channels=sddm)



## INSTALLATION



Qt >= 5.15.0 is required to use SDDM.



SDDM runs the greeter as a system user named "sddm" whose home directory needs

to be set to `/var/lib/sddm`.



If pam and systemd are available, the greeter will go through logind

which will give it access to drm devices.



Distributions without pam and systemd will need to put the "sddm" user

into the "video" group, otherwise errors regarding GL and drm devices

might be experienced.



## VIRTUAL TERMINALS



SDDM is assumed to start at the tty specified by the cmake variable

SDDM_INITIAL_VT which is an integer and defaults to 1.



If SDDM_INITIAL_VT wasn't available, SDDM will use the next available one

instead.



You can override SDDM_INITIAL_VT if you want to have a different one if,

for example, you were planning on using tty1 for something else.



## LICENSE



Source code of SDDM is licensed under GNU GPL version 2 or later (at your choosing).

QML files are MIT licensed and images are CC BY 3.0.



## TROUBLESHOOTING



### NVIDIA Prime



Add this at the bottom of the Xsetup script:



```sh

if [ -e /sbin/prime-offload ]; then

    echo running NVIDIA Prime setup /sbin/prime-offload, you will need to manually run /sbin/prime-switch to shut down

    /sbin/prime-offload

fi

```



### No User Icon



SDDM reads user icon from either ~/.face.icon or FacesDir/username.face.icon



You need to make sure that SDDM user have permissions to read those files.

In case you don't want to allow other users to access your $HOME you can use

ACLs if your filesystem does support it.



```sh

setfacl -m u:sddm:x /home/username

setfacl -m u:sddm:r /home/username/.face.icon

```



### Custom DPI



In order to set custom DPI for high resolution screens you should configure

Xorg yourself.  An easy way is to pass an additional argument to Xorg.



Edit ``/etc/sddm.conf``, go to the ``X11`` section and change ``ServerArguments`` like this:



```

ServerArguments=-nolisten tcp -dpi 192

```



to set DPI to 192.



As an alternative you can edit Xorg configuration ``xorg.conf``, please refer to the

Xorg documentation.