Gentoo xdm install

Moving the mouse or using the keyboard will make the SDDM greeter launch faster. The X server will not start and permission denied errors such as the following are present in the Xorg. It is likely the sddm user has not been added to the video group. Running the following command should fix the problem:.

SDDM only displays buttons if the functionality evaluates to being available. This can depend on several factors. For OpenRC systems using elogind, this can be caused by the service not running when the display manager is initialized.

To make sure it is running, just add elogind to the boot run level. Ensure Direct Rendering Manager is enabled in the kernel. Plasma can be started the old-fashioned way with startx , but extra care needs to be taken to ensure it gets a valid session.

When using Wayland , Plasma can be launched with dbus-launch --exit-with-session startplasma-wayland. Plasma 5 uses the StatusNotifier specification for systray icons [1]. As not all applications have been ported to the new system, some workarounds exist [2] , and Plasma 5 has a means to convert old xembed-based system tray icons to StatusNotifier icons.

After install, the Ubuntu Indicator plugin can be found under Tools Plugins. Shutdown scripts require executable bit set because they are not sourced. The Keychain article provides more information about this. Some KDE dialogs such as printers, adding wireless networks and adding users require administrator authentication. By default in Gentoo, the root account is the only administrator, and so even if a user account can run root commands through sudo , authentication in these KDE dialogs will fail.

The Polkit wiki page provides more details on rules configuration. KDE Plasma has a utility in order to start graphical programs with root privileges. This requires Xorg , and only works within X. It can be used by invoking kdesu either from KRunner or a terminal emulator:. Plasma-5 and Applications are shipping their localization per-package.

Enable your localization in systemsettings. Use the --oneshot option to avoid adding xfce4-notifyd to the world file :. This is a partial selection of packages available in the Gentoo repository, see p. Xfce can either be run from a terminal after login, launched automatically after login, or be started by a graphical display manager that will greet the user and ask for login details.

If experiencing authorization or permissions issues, see the troubleshooting section. To launch the Xfce4 desktop, simply type startxfce4 at the command-line and press enter:. It is possible to use a display manager to start Xfce. Please refer to the display manager article to configure a display manager. Most display managers use. The following is an example desktop file:. Xfce is a desktop environment and as such can be tuned and tailored to the needs of almost every user.

In this section, a number of popular or more challenging aspects are covered. Alternatively, custom keys can be bound to amixer by running xfce4-keyboard-settings :. Or run xfce4-appearance-settings. Select "Greybird" from the "Style" list. Other themes available in Portage that are compatible with XFCE can be emerged with the following list:.