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Is there a way to have Kubuntu 15.10 default to showing all users known to the system on the login screen (greeter)?

If I have users Alf, Bill, Chris, Daisy and Ella, and Daisy was the last user when the system shut down, then on the next system start, the log in screen gets centered around Daisy's icon. Ella appears to the right, Chris to the left, but Alf and Bill are hidden behind time & date. Alf and Bill need to know that they are expected to grasp the user list and drag it to the right to find their icons, which is more than confusing.

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    Which display manager do you use ? I see the tag lightdm on your topic. Is it correct? You can check it with the command: cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager
    – monitor35
    Mar 29, 2016 at 14:34
  • Well, sorry, obviously I set a wrong tag; thank you for your hint. default-display-manager points to sddm. Probably I was misled by the German Wikipedia page for Kubuntu, which conceals the switch to SDDM. Maybe looking for a solution for my problem in the LightDM arena was one reason for not finding one <g>. Should I switch to LightDM or can SDDM be adjusted to my needs?
    – FritzMa
    Mar 30, 2016 at 17:25
  • I don't know very well SDDM (it's new!) maybe it's possible too. But in the others display manager like (gdm,lightdm,...) there is a parameter name "userlist" that you can enable/disable .
    – monitor35
    Mar 31, 2016 at 9:06

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After some further investigation, I've come to the conclusion (everybody feel free to correct me) that the SDDM/Breeze theme combination which Kubuntu 15.10 installs by default offers no parameter to adjust the user list appearance. I only found a partial, quick and dirty (mainly dirty) way to recover some additional space for the list: Fiddling around with the file UserSelect.qml in /usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/components/ - commenting out InfoPane therein, changing the left anchor of UserList to parent.left and dropping its leftMargin.

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  • There are other SDDM-Themes that obviously offer the required capability. sddm-theme-maui / sddm-theme-malvines
    – ellisistfroh
    Apr 11, 2016 at 0:34
  • Thanks a lot for your hints. But "SDDM-Themes that obviously offer the required capability" - do they? I only found a video for maui [link] (youtube.com/watch?v=dJ28mrOeuNA) and it appears to me that it shows the very same limitation.
    – FritzMa
    Apr 12, 2016 at 10:20
  • If the given themes don't offer enough features for you I would just recommend that you place a feature-request within the projects, the more clear/precise you are about the graphical layout the better chance exists that this get's implemented in newer versions of Plasma/SDDM. Even better if you have some knowledge in QML-programming. github.com/sddm/sddm/issues bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=sddm Just keeping in mind that you are on Plasma 5.3.x/SDDM 0.11 in Wily, means that such issues may already have been reported and eventually been fixed in newer versions.
    – ellisistfroh
    Apr 22, 2016 at 13:21
  • Thanks a lot for your proposals. However, I just hoped to be able to replace a Windows setup by Linux without too much effort. Looks that this is not the case, and I invested already too much time into this job. Will have to live with that less-than-ideal solution. Thanks again to everybody who helped out.
    – FritzMa
    Apr 24, 2016 at 10:00

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