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Hi everyone,
I am using sddm as display manager under Mga8.
In order to login, I have to type in my user name...
I used (Mga7) to be able to just select my user name from a list (list of names or icons - I don't care for avatars)
How to configure sddm so that the lists of users is displayed?!
Thank you
V

Check your /etc/sddm.conf for the RememberLastUser setting, this was disabled by the default theme in the past IIRC.
You can also change to a different theme, as those behave differently.

doktor5000 wrote:You can also change to a different theme, as those behave differently.

As example:
SDDM "Breeze" theme: Provides the possibility to chose user out of a list
SDDM "Mageia" theme: Provides no possibility. You have to type the user name.

Thanks a lot doktor5000 and sturmvogel for your reply.

Issue was that the threshold was the threshold for ssdm to show avatars or not was set too low (7 by default)
I set
DisableAvatarsThreshold=1000

Now an icon is show for each of my users...
Best,
Vincent

FWIW, that's a more-or-less "hidden" setting which is usually only used by themes, not by sddm itself.
This was already reported a long time ago as https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/785 and it's documented e.g. at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM#U ... he_greeter