Bug#801739: plasma-workspace: plasmashell crashes after login through display manager

[Robi Malik <robi@waikato.ac.nz>]

On 14/10/2015 10:19 p.m., Diederik de Haas wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 October 2015 15:38:34 Robi Malik wrote:
> > > See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=799948
> >
> > Confirmed: I can fix the problem by adding myself (and
> > presumably all users that want to login) to the video group.
>
> That's not exactly the solution/workaround that was mentioned there.
> You should not add yourself, but the display manager user to the video group.

I understand that. But in my case the crash appears in
plasmashell after login from kdm. Apparently that is run
in the context of the user. Adding kdm to video does
not help, but adding the user does.