The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved a Fedora 44 change for switching all KDE variants away from using the SDDM display manager to instead use the newer Plasma Login Manager.

Over the past year KDE developers have been developing the Plasma Login Manager as a modern alternative to SDDM and looking at GNOME’s GDM as the “gold standard” for log-in/display managers.

  • Ilumar@lemmy.zip
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    6 days ago

    From PLMs GitHub:

    Plasma Login is in a prototype state and is not considered ready for real-world usage.

    I just tried it out anyway, because SDDM sucks. PLM no longer uses the lowest common resolution for all displays and HDR works about as well as it does in plasma (sometimes I get a black screen and have to turn the display off and on). Still better than SDDM. It also integrates with KDEs system settings so it’s easy to setup.

    Auto-login does not work however, so I’ll be sticking with SDDM for now, but I’m looking forward to the stable release.