[URGENT] Plasma 5 becoming the default for siduction soon

[dibl]

@dibl: Do you use the repository kdenext?

Yes, kde-frameworks in kdenext.

[dibl]

in my test installation (in virtualbox, indiansummer amd64 -kdenext - with kde-full (kde-plasma 5.3.2, Qt 5.4.2) both is working.
The prog set in autostart is running after login and the context-menu after right-click the desktop shows on top the function "Befehl ausführen" "run command", witch launches krunner

@ Santa -thx for your work !

After I had the first challenge with setting a script to run on startup, I searched online and found this, which says that it is a known issue and can be worked around by using a .desktop file, so that is what I did to resolve it.  Maybe I didn't try enough.  My conky runs with no issue, after I manually launched it one time, but it does not appear in Startup and Shutdown/Autostart under systemsettings.

[holgerw]

- In systemsettings, the Autostart function is not actually working, although it does move scripts to ~/.config. You'll have to write a .desktop file in ~/.config/autostart to run your autostart scripts.


- You can't click the desktop and then type the command like KDE 4, but Alt-F2 still launches krunner.

in my test installation (in virtualbox, indiansummer amd64 -kdenext - with kde-full (kde-plasma 5.3.2, Qt 5.4.2) both is working.
The prog set in autostart is running after login and the context-menu after right-click the desktop shows on top the function "Befehl ausführen" "run command", witch launches krunner

@ Santa -thx for your work !

Hello,

I've made following experience:
When trying to ad a script to Autostart, it will be ignored, but adding a program to autostart works.

Off topic: Na Jürgen, doch neugierig geworden auf kf5? 

Kind regards,
  Holger

[jure]

of course my fault, I started a program and not a script...

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OT: Hallo Holger - bei (ohne hold)

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115 aktualisiert, 107 neu installiert, 1 zu entfernen und 0 nicht aktualisiert
muss ich ja mal schauen,, was passiert, allerdings in einer vm - läuft soweit. Umwerfend Neues oder Besseres habe ich aber noch nicht entdeckt ;-) ....

[Santa]

Hi,


Like one hour ago the packages from kdenext/kde-frameworks were copied to kdenext/unstable, first post edited.


More stuff is coming to siduction soon, please stay tuned.

[clubex]

Santa:
So we can remove the kde-frameworks repo from the sources list?

[Santa]

Santa:
So we can remove the kde-frameworks repo from the sources list?

If you are already have kdenext/unstable, yes you can remove it from your sources.list


I have updated the installation instructions here:
https://community.kde.org/Plasma/InstallingNext#siduction

[vayu]

I have updated the installation instructions here:
https://community.kde.org/Plasma/InstallingNext#siduction

The instructions refer to sddm-kcm I found it as:
$ apt-cache search sddm
kde-config-sddm - KCM module for SDDM

Meanwhile, I couldn't get sddm to work.  It would hang with a black screen after login.  After ctrl  f1 I entered dpkg-reconfigure sddm, and set it to kdm, then rebooted and it strangely went into sddm and worked.  Then I did dpkg-reconfigure again and set it to sddm and it broke again. Then I set it to kdm and it was still broken.  I uninstalled sddm and now I'm back in with kdm.  Searching google, I could only find conflicting ideas of how to set the dm. 

Then uninstalled kdm and had only sddm installed, but that didn't work either.  Yet it did one time work so something must be stopping it from starting X.  I tried deleting ~/.Xauthority. Does anyone know the steps involved in making sure the startup to sddm works?

[clubex]

I notice that systemd has disappeared from systemsettings although kcmsystemd is installed. Can't see any substitute amongst kf5 packages. It this somethng we have to wait for?

[jure]

there is systemadm in systemsettings on my kde test installation

[piper]

there is systemadm in systemsettings on my kde test installation

What "kde test installation" do you have ?

with 

500 http://packages.siduction.org/kdenext/ unstable/main amd64 Packages

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piper@x1:~$ apt-cache policy systemadm
N: Unable to locate package systemadm

Unless your using systemd-ui which is in the sid branch

[Santa]

Hi,

I notice that systemd has disappeared from systemsettings although kcmsystemd is installed. Can't see any substitute amongst kf5 packages. It this somethng we have to wait for?

You are right, we had a package available in siduction but not in debian to provide that kcm. Fortunately there is a frameworks based version, but we need to package it. So I think you will get it back.

I have updated the installation instructions here:
https://community.kde.org/Plasma/InstallingNext#siduction

The instructions refer to sddm-kcm I found it as:
$ apt-cache search sddm
kde-config-sddm - KCM module for SDDM

Meanwhile, I couldn't get sddm to work.  It would hang with a black screen after login.  After ctrl  f1 I entered dpkg-reconfigure sddm, and set it to kdm, then rebooted and it strangely went into sddm and worked.  Then I did dpkg-reconfigure again and set it to sddm and it broke again. Then I set it to kdm and it was still broken.  I uninstalled sddm and now I'm back in with kdm.  Searching google, I could only find conflicting ideas of how to set the dm. 

Then uninstalled kdm and had only sddm installed, but that didn't work either.  Yet it did one time work so something must be stopping it from starting X.  I tried deleting ~/.Xauthority. Does anyone know the steps involved in making sure the startup to sddm works?

It seems you are right, I'm busy with other stuff but I will investigate it. Lasts test I have been doing were done with lightdm and kdm, thanks for noticing.

[melmarker]

i don't know the current state of sddm - sddm was ok for native english speakers and only for them - because the keyboard and language settings in the greeter don't work nice last time i had a look - so until these things are fixed and sddm is more mature then now i would recommend lightdm.

And by the way - i would be happy to switch away from lightdm to sddm, if sddm really work without problems - but that wasn't the case in the last 2 years. So lightdm will be the DM of choice in siduction and sddm will remain not used and not official supported.

[jure]

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What "kde test installation" do you have ?

with 

500 http://packages.siduction.org/kdenext/ unstable/main amd64 Packages

Hi piper

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inxi -Sr
System:    Host: siductionkde5 Kernel: 4.1.1-towo.1-siduction-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: KDE 5
           Distro: siduction 14.1.0 Indian Summer - kde (-full) (201411230337)
Repos:     Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
           deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/siduction.list
           deb http://packages.siduction.org/base unstable main
           deb http://packages.siduction.org/extra unstable main
           deb http://packages.siduction.org/fixes unstable main
           deb http://packages.siduction.org/kdenext unstable main
           deb http://packages.siduction.org/kdenext kde-frameworks main

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piper@x1:~$ apt-cache policy systemadm
N: Unable to locate package systemadm

yes I know - but

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ls -l /usr/bin/system*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  163224 Jun  6 21:55 /usr/bin/systemadm and it works

[holgerw]

Hello Alf,

since my switch to kf5 and plasma5 with siduction I use sddm without any problems, same situation with Antergos, Manjaro and Netrunner. I've a german localised system and sddm also "speaks" german with me

Kind regards,
  Holger