SDDM configuration
==================

The program as shipped already includes default settings and does not require
a configuration file to exist. For this reason there is no /etc/sddm.conf
shipped in this package.

In order to override a configuration value you'll need to create a
/etc/sddm.conf file and set the values accordingly (see sddm.conf(5) manpage
for more details). If you use KDE, the recommended way of doing this is
through KDE's System Settings (Workspace -> Startup and Shutdown).

Themes
------

The theme used by default in sddm is 'debian-theme', which is configurable
using the alternative 'sddm-debian-theme', this allows a better integration
of sddm with different desktop environments, such as LXQt or Plasma.

Currently the following packages provide a sddm-theme:
 * sddm-theme-maui
 * sddm-theme-debian-maui
 * sddm-theme-elarun
 * sddm-theme-debian-elarun
 * sddm-theme-maldives
 * sddm-theme-maya
 * sddm-theme-breeze
 * sddm-theme-debian-breeze

You can easily change the one you want to use with:

 sudo update-alternatives --config sddm-debian-theme

The themes named sddm-theme-debian-* were adapted to have the look and feel
for the Debian stretch release.

Also, the 0.14 version of sddm drops the 'circles' theme and it will
eventually be removed from the archive. Please use a different sddm theme.

HiDPI
-----

There are some bugs in QT5 (#857648) that cause the QScreen object to become
invalid when enabling the HiDPI support in some video cards, this caused some
regressions in 0.14. To avoid this issue we are disabling the HiDPI support by
default.

If you want to enable it you'll need to set EnableHiDPI configuration option
under the [General] section of your /etc/sddm.conf:
 [General]
  EnableHiDPI=true


 -- Nicholas D Steeves <sten@debian.org>, Sun, 20 Oct 2024 20:07:08 -0400
