From their repo:
Plasma Login
Plasma Login provides a display manager for KDE Plasma, forked from SDDM and with an new frontend providing a greeter, wallpaper plugin integration and System Settings module (KCM).
What we want
- Great out-of-box experience in multi-monitor and high DPI and HDR
- Keyboard layout switching
- Virtual keyboards
- Easy Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Vietnamese (CJK) input
- Screen readers for blind people (which then means volume control)
- Remote (VNC/RDP) support from startup
- Deeper Plasma integration including:
- Display and keyboard brightness control
- Full power management
- Pairing trusted bluetooth devices
- Login to known Wi-Fi for remote LDAP
No built-in VPN support for remote desktop? 😢
Is this a joke or am I missing something? Why would you want that from a login manager? To me a VPN is either system-wide or per-user
RDP over VPN. My former workplace had a solution that hacked itself before the Windows’ login manager for remote logins. Would make Linux more viable for business imo.
And yes, it’s partly a critique; they put all those usecases and protocols in one tool (i’m a sucker for minimism and modularity) but missed this aspect?
I’m still not sure I understand why you can’t start the RDP and VPN daemons via systemd or other init?
So you say there’s no need for RDP in a display manager (login screen)?
I don’t see it, you can just make a system service that starts it on system startup. You can specify a dependency on the display manager being up if you’d like. But I don’t see why the DM itself needs to start it
Which is my point. 👍