Hi all,

I'm running kde 4.4 on a fedora 13 machine at work. The machine is configured by the sysadmin to use defauld gdm login manager, which works fine for logging in and out. When I want to lock the screen however, I get the following error popup:

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Will not lock the session, as unlocking would be impossible:
No appropriate greeter plugin configured.

I looked it up, and the greeter plugin is found in kdm, which isn't installed. Now I don't want to bug the sysadmin to switch to kdm, so my question is: how can I configure this thing to make gdm play nice with kde's lock functionality?

Thx.

As far as I am aware, it isn't possible to use GDM's locking capabilities with KDE.

bcooksley wrote:As far as I am aware, it isn't possible to use GDM's locking capabilities with KDE.

Damn, this used to work in 3.5. So does it need kdm to run as the default login manager, or does it just have to be installed?

By the looks of the issue, it is probable that this is caused by Kubuntu packaging. Simply having kdm installed should be more than sufficient.

bcooksley wrote:By the looks of the issue, it is probable that this is caused by Kubuntu packaging. Simply having kdm installed should be more than sufficient.

Well, it's a Fedora 13 issue mainly (Kubuntu runs on my machine at home). The entire kde installation just self-destructed (incompatibility between installed qt and kde packages after an upgrade), so I'll report back when I have something coherent to work with But thanks for the info that having kdm installed should do the trick.

OK, found the ultimate culprit was indeed packaging, kgreet_* plugins need to be available at runtime for kscreenlocker to function properly (and those fedora previously packaged only with kdm). now fixed in kdebase-workspace-4.6.5-2+