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QML based X11 and Wayland display manager
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Feature Request: Custom Names #1728

Open Plexxl opened 1 year ago

Plexxl commented 1 year ago

Since the "User" tab in KDE Plasma's System Settings allow you include an alternate name as well as your Linux username, this feature should be added in to SDDM.

For example: Name: John Smith Username: flatboulders

I want to have the option for SDDM's login screen to display John Smith or flatboulders

If you cannot do that, the ability of custom capitalization for SDDM's screen would be great alternative/addition (so the login screen would say FlatBoulders not flatboulders).

Vogtinator commented 1 year ago

SDDM already shows the passwd GECOS value though?

Plexxl commented 1 year ago

Was that a change from SDDM-git and SDDM on Arch Linux?

Vogtinator commented 1 year ago

It's always been that way, depending on the theme you're using.

STPKITT commented 2 months ago

Hi, on the KDE neon systems I run SDDM shows the user's realname instead of usernames. SDDM needs an option for the end user to select between showing usernames only, realnames only and show both. It then especially also needs to deal with truncations in cases the shown names are long, for which there already is an open issue: #1406

Vogtinator commented 2 months ago

That's something the theme has to implement.