sddm theme replaced after switching to kwin_x11 in xfce

Most problems that I would have are of my own making. If I were to just install a given distro's packages and take what I get I'd likely never have a problem, but I've never been happy with that. I want what I want, and I want it my way :-)

Originally Posted by TheRealGrogan Most problems that I would have are of my own making. If I were to just install a given distro's packages and take what I get I'd likely never have a problem, but I've never been happy with that. I want what I want, and I want it my way :-)

Yes, the only way to learn. It's just that I've a lot on my plate at the moment and have to choose my battles.

Originally Posted by Gerard Lally Another problem was that replacing sddm with xdm (and Sebastien's excellent xdm themes) resulted in the display manager going into a perpetual loop.

Can you tell me more about this ?

You can attach the following log files if they are always present on your system :

/var/log/xdm.log
/var/log/xdm-xsetup._0.log (and/or /var/log/xdm-xsetup._1.log)
/var/log/xdm-xbuttons_bar._0.log (and/or /var/log/xdm-xbuttons_bar._1.log)

~/.xsession-errors._0 (and/or ~/.xsession-errors._1)

Thanks.

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SeB

Originally Posted by phenixia2003 Can you tell me more about this ? You can attach the following log files if they are always present on your system : /var/log/xdm.log /var/log/xdm-xsetup._0.log (and/or /var/log/xdm-xsetup._1.log) /var/log/xdm-xbuttons_bar._0.log (and/or /var/log/xdm-xbuttons_bar._1.log) ~/.xsession-errors._0 (and/or ~/.xsession-errors._1) Thanks.

Very sorry Sébastien. I didn't keep the log files and I can no longer reproduce the problem. I'm pretty sure the fault was at my end, not with xdm or your additions to xdm.

I could be wrong but I think it had to do with sbotools not finding the compton source code for -current. All the other requirements, including optional requirements, were built. I didn't hang around too long to troubleshoot; I've had your theme working several times with no problems.