elogind

Support elogind as an alterantive session tracker for systemd-logind.

Tue, 02/14/2017 - 05:38 - augustin

Yamakuzure Support elogind as an alterantive session tracker for systemd-logind.

For users who do not want to run the full systemd suite, but do not
want to patch sddm to use ck-launch-session either, elogind can be
used as an alternative session tracker via its PAM module.

See:
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/746
https://github.com/Yamakuzure/sddm

KDE and systemd

logind

logind depends on systemd.
The bug below shows that KDE developers fully expect users to use logind and systemd:

Bug 360489 -  kscreenlocker suggests running "loginctl unlock-sessions" even though I don't use systemd
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360489  

A reply from a KDE developer says that they won't fix this for users not using systemd:

Martin Gräßlin 2016-03-14 :

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