Bug 915483

Summary:	x11-misc/sddm: SDDM is only run under the root X11 user.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Benjamín P <benjem>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	LxQt maintainers <lxqt>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	minor	CC:	kde
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://man.archlinux.org/man/sddm.conf.5.en
See Also:	https://github.com/gentoo/qt/pull/267
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Benjamín P 2023-10-09 14:26:25 UTC

It would be great if SDDM could run under wayland. Documentation of SDDM says, that SDDM is abble to run under wayland. It's a little inappropriate to run Xorg to run wayland session. It would be great if x11-misc/sddm had USE flag, which can change default configuration to run SDDM under (for example) kwin compositor. 

If this is not possible, it would be a good idea to run SDDM under X11 without root privileges. This way is for sure stable.

Comment 1 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev

2023-10-10 09:08:42 UTC

It is experimental and broken for every second user trying to use it.

Comment 2 Sam James archtester

2024-01-21 16:10:52 UTC

https://github.com/gentoo/qt/pull/267 was where we did some WIP on it, just for completeness.