I installed sddm, and kde5(PLasma) KDE (Cinnamon), and xfce. I launched sddm via service sddm onestart, and entered a KDE Plasma session, then logged out and entered a Cinnamon session. then logged out. Every subsequent login to Plasma takes me into A Cinnamon session.
Donald Knuth - I've proven it's correct, but I haven't actually tried it. HP-Slimline 290-p0014 Desktop using integrated UHD Graphics 630 Running KDE Neon 5.21.2, Kubuntu 20.10, Linux Mint 20.1 Cinnamon, and FreeBSD FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE-p4 r369434 Special amd64 Path: /usr/ports Working Copy Root Path: /usr/ports URL: https://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head Relative URL: ^/head Repository Root: https://svn.freebsd.org/ports Repository UUID: 35697150-7ecd-e111-bb59-0022644237b5 Revision: 568212 Node Kind: directory Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: yuri Last Changed Rev: 568212 Last Changed Date: 2021-03-12 18:12:16 -0500 (Fri, 12 Mar 2021)
Ignore my <https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2021-March/293323.html> I'll attempt to reproduce this bug with FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT and latest …
Not reproducible with FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT. Menu options such as Plasma appear dimmed, which is cosmetically wrong, however selection of Plasma (after ending a Cinnamon session) does allow reuse of Plasma. For the wrongness in the menu, which appeared (to me) only after installation of x11/cinnamon, I wonder whether an upstream issue at https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues is appropriate. Check the list of FreeBSD bugs via <https://www.freshports.org/x11/cinnamon/> first. (True: sddm appears wrong, however it seemed to be triggered by the presence of Cinnamon.) Steven: if you have more than one display, maybe check that the display where you use the menu is the same as the display where you enter your password. Also, please update the title here to show something more distinctive than 'x11/sddm'. Thanks.
I only have a single display.
I'll try deinstalling cinnamon, and see what sddm does. Then I'll re-install cinnamon, and test again.
Can't reproduce here -- 13-STABLE, ports home-built from main -- either. I have: sddm-0.19.0_1 (not enabled; started through `onestart`) cinnamon-4.8.6 (I **only** installed x11/cinnamon, and what deps that pulled in; this gets me a rather incomplete Cinnamon desktop I think) plasma5-plasma-5.21.5 (which is what I run every day) SDDM, login to Plasma X11: ok; logout SDDM, login to Cinnamon: doesn't respond to mouse or keyboard; might be an openGL problem? killed all the processes and got back to SDDM SDDM, login to Cinnamon (software rendering): ok; logout SDDM, login to Plasma X11: ok Something like `grep HELPER /var/log/sddm.log | grep Starting` might be helpful to Steven (OP) to see what exactly SDDM is doing; you might be able to trace what, for instance, is happening when you select Plasma and login (and then get Cinnamon, unexpectedly)