Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM), which is used by numerous GNU/Linux distributions as default graphical login manager for both X11 and Wayland windowing systems, was updated today to version 0.16.0.
The main change of the SDDM 0.16.0 release is the implementation of configuration directories, along with a central configuration file that should be installed by default under /etc/sddm.conf. This was done to avoid situations where SDDM might end up broken after an upgrade due to the existence of mixed end user and OEM options.
“SDDM configuration usually consists of user set options and distro defined options. For example, a distro might want to specify a custom theme, but the user’s autostart name can’t come from the distro. Using the same config file leads to problems when upgrading,” explains developer Pier Luigi Fiorini.
With this release, SDDM will automatically load the configuration file fro… (read more)
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