It should work after reboot again when you have switched back to lightdm withasqwerth wrote: Sat May 23, 2020 9:57 pm Yes, when I installed plasma on Friday, I decided to switch to sddm because I'd found sddm or its themes finicky and flaky in Neon, and wanted to see if it was the same in mx19.
Anyway , even though you have said you found the bug, later I'll reapply or reselect the conkies in xfce default session, and see what happens.
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sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
It would require a patch of conky-manger to make it work intependent of a dm. will look into this. for now I have only tested and working for lightdm. b/c I havn't simply though about other dm#s.asqwerth wrote: Sun May 24, 2020 4:01 am So the conkies won't be customised per DE if I continue to use SDDM?
I tested also and it currenetly not working for sddm. Acctualy I could fix it for sddm but haven't found time yet. Also if I fix for sddm I might go through some other DM's as well. let's see. But perhaps just switch for now back to lightdm until I fixed it. When done remove better ~/.conky/conky-startup.sh. As you might find there some entries which are not cleared due to sddm usage of file path with "/" slash used, and my sed simply ignores those to be cleared.asqwerth wrote: Mon May 25, 2020 3:14 pm Sorry, the last 2 days I haven't had much time to further test the conky selection when running MX19+Plasma+sddm.
For what it's worth, I now have more data about how sddm interacts with your "conky per DE" script.
3 session choices are provided in SDDM:
1. default xsession
2. plasma
3. xfce
Prior to me installing plasma, I just ran the default xsession, which was xfce.
Whatever were my selected conkys that were running in default xsession prior to/at the time I installed plasma is currently the non-changeable conky set for default xsession.
When I say non-changeable, I mean that:
1. while in Default xsession, if I change the conkies, then I log out and in again, I get the original set of conkies all over again. The conky changes I made did not get retained.
2. when I logged into XFCE session for the first time, no conkies were running at all. So it's considered a separate session from Default Xsession.
After I enabled 2 different conkies from those in Default xsession and Plasma session, I logged out and in again. XFCE session was able to retain the new conkies I chose, ie it had different conkies from default xsession.
3. when I log into plasma session, I can see for a few seconds the different conkies I chose for it the last time, but then these conkies get wiped out and replaced with the original conky set of default xsession. Thus, the conky changes I make to it do not get retained.
Thus, when I use SDDM as display manager, only XFCE session will keep its selected conkies, no matter what changes are made to conkies in the other 2 sessions.
Sorry, it's late here and I'm off to bed.
