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grunchy

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Registered: 2024-01-01

Posts: 31  

KDE/SDDM issue: devuan v. debian

i have a debian trixie vm running KDE and SDDM. unlike devuan
daedalus, on login it does not switch to vt7, remaining on vt1.

i would like to make the debian vm behave like devuan and switch
to vt7.

in the debian vm, /usr/bin/Xorg is called with arguments not
present in devuan daedalus: -keeptty --novtswitch

there does not appear to be any config file that specifies these
arguments, so i cannot change/remove them.

does anyone know if these command-line arguments are hard-coded
in the sddm binary?

is it possible to change the behavior of sddm in this regard?

the debian trixie sddm is version 0.21 while the devuan daedalus
sddm version is 0.19

lynch9

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Registered: 2024-07-17

Posts: 27  

Re: KDE/SDDM issue: devuan v. debian

Yeah in SDDM 0.21 the `--novtswitch` / `-keeptty` flags come from the logind code path.
They’re not in a config file, they’re baked in.

Devuan’s older SDDM (0.19 + elogind) doesn’t add them, so it still hops to VT7 i suppose

If you want Trixie to behave like that, either use elogind or patch/rebuild SDDM...

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