Hi! Geoff - 12.10.24, 10:33:27 MESZ: > Luc Castermans wrote: > > after update and booted up i am looking to a fully black screen, with > > mouse nicely movable. that's it. > > > > could someone share a list of related KDE packages which should be > > installed? […] > I had to remove the config files from /etc/sddm.conf.d/ as I had the > same thing. sddm still complains about some theme issue but it does > work now.
Interesting. I did not have a fully black screen, however… SDDM does not seem to be interested all that much in KDE configuration of theme: % /etc/sddm.conf.d> cat kde_settings.conf [Autologin] Relogin=false Session= User= [General] HaltCommand= RebootCommand= [Theme] Current=maldives [Users] MaximumUid=60000 MinimumUid=1000 I am definitely not having the maldives theme at the moment. I prefer it cause it does not display a user icon for each user. I can still enter my username, thanks. :) This config file should have been written out by 6.1.5 sddm kcm for Systemsettings. I just removed it and rewrote it with 6.2.0. Looks the same. Needed to first find SDDM config in Systemsettings. It is under Appearance now. I am quite confused about the recent shuffling around of things in Systemsettings. Search function for the rescue! SDDM is using the Debian theme instead according to "/var/log/sddm.log": [20:16:15.185] (II) DAEMON: Loading theme configuration from "/usr/share/ sddm/themes/debian-theme/theme.conf" No error message whatsoever on any failure to load maldives theme which is indeed installed. Funnily enough both Debian and Maldives theme are shown with the same background image in Systemsettings. The background image from Maldives theme. Which is not the one SDDM is using for Debian theme. Okay, this is odd: % /usr/share/sddm/themes/debian-theme> cat metadata.desktop [SddmGreeterTheme] Name=Maldives Description=Maldives Theme Author=Abdurrahman AVCI Copyright=(c) 2013, Abdurrahman AVCI License=CC-BY-SA Type=sddm-theme Version=0.1 Website=https://github.com/sddm/sddm Screenshot=maldives.jpg MainScript=Main.qml ConfigFile=theme.conf TranslationsDirectory=translations Email=[…] Theme-Id=maldives Theme-API=2.0 Ah… that is the reason: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 12. Okt 11:19 debian-theme -> /etc/ alternatives/sddm-debian-theme I do not even had the Debian themes installed so I think it just linked to the Maldives theme. Yet SDDM still did not really use that theme. Maybe not compatible with newer SDDM version? Above link is after I installed all SDDM themes. So there are two different mechanism for theme selection. The alternatives system: update-alternatives --config sddm-debian-theme and Systemsettings. This is confusing. So yeah, maybe good opportunity to check whether things are sound in there. Ah, and while digging for issues I also found a black screen issue with amdgpu: https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/1988 But that is firmware related. I have no issues with Plasma 6.2 on AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8840U w/ Radeon 780M Graphics. Best, -- Martin
