Configure SDDM to always ask for username

[ericjoh]

Hi,

I have installed Ubuntu 18.04 with SDDM on some machines at work. On all of them I have only one local account (1000:1000) in /etc/passwd since the users are logging in through a central LDAP authentication service. On a few computers it SDDM shows the icon-login-view so that you will have to click on the option to login with another user so that you are able to type in your username. Any idea why those few computers shows the icon-login-view instead of the type-in-username-view?

How can I configure SDDM to always show the type-in-username-view instead of the icon-login-view?

Relevant packages installed:
# dpkg -l|grep sddm
ii kde-config-sddm 4:5.12.6-0ubuntu0.1 amd64 KCM module for SDDM
ii sddm 0.17.0-1ubuntu7 amd64 modern display manager for X11
ii sddm-theme-breeze 4:5.12.6-0ubuntu0.1 amd64 Breeze SDDM theme

Best regards / Eric

[deadflowr]

There are themes that are set with username field, where you need type in actual names.
Like this one:
https://store.kde.org/p/1186478/
and some login themes in general:
https://store.kde.org/browse/cat/101/

just a thought