Sddm black screen after changing theme. Enhance your Linux setup today! Same for me, it pro...
Sddm black screen after changing theme. Enhance your Linux setup today! Same for me, it probably isn't in the package (minor bug) so if you really want it or a different, image you'll just have to download one. You can change the . conf file, but after editing it, nothing changes. I had previously been running kde4 I finally figured out what happened. I changed from CLI (Alt+Ctl+F2) login to automatic and everything works, but of Same issue here. What caused my issue was messing around with the wallpapers, then desktop crashed. However, various troubleshooting tips I found online for After rebooting the system several times (due to restoring data and applications), the login screen was distorted but it was possible to enter the password. I changed sddm theme from the default to elegant-archlinux and after that sddm kind of disappeared , all I get is a black screen with mouse arrow which I can whirl around aimlessly for Just recently I've tried to update my SDDM themes using Arch Linux Tweak Tool, and apparently it broke my SDDM. You can follow this tutorial to fork the theme and edit the I'm new to Arch Linux and wanted to use the plasma 5 desktop with sddm. Then I restart the sddm, and it still I recently changed to sddm display manager. I forgot I changed the SDDM theme from Breeze to Elarun. Set to breeze for the default Plasma theme. I'm able to start the plasma desktop via startx without any issues but when I try to use sddm it only shows me a black I'm using lxqt and I'm trying to change SDDM's theme by editing the /etc/sddm. 4 using SDDM occasionally displays a blank screen after a valid login, though other display managers work. I've noticed that the script I've used "Hyprv2" used sddm-git INSTEAD of sddm. To change the login screen theme is in This is due to changes in the API that the Breeze theme has not yet been updated to accommodate. If I use gdm I can launch Again, after several logins with a distorted login screen, I finally got a black screen with a mouse pointer. I just installed an SDDM theme to change the login screen and now I have nothing but a black screen and a mouse cursor when logging out or booting where the login screen Changing SDDM themes does not fix the issue (tried multiple themes, same black screen). Black screen with just cursor when logging in with sddm but when choosing gdm3 Theme settings Theme settings can be changed in the [Theme] section. If you use Plasma's system settings, themes may show previews. System settings Simple things can be configured in KDE system settings > Workspace > Startup and shutdown > Login screen (SDDM). Last edited by jmjohnson (2024 /var/log/messages : search for sddm-helper. I changed the theme from “Breeze” to “Maldives” and Install and customize SDDM on Linux. To verify the changes I used sddm --example-config and the Just recently I've tried to update my SDDM themes using Arch Linux Tweak Tool, and apparently it broke my SDDM. I want to change the theme to a My problem is that Leap 15. I don't use any custom QT or GTK theme but I do use a custom sddm theme. Can you select Plasma X11 or Plasma Wayland and login? You should be able to login from that screen. Learn to apply and test themes for a personalized login experience. Not sure if the issue I fixed the black screen issue by removing the ‘splash’ part in grub. Here is the output from running $ When I try to log into plasma using sddm I get a black screen, no mouse cursor is visible but my mouse works and I can launch apps using the screen corner. However no matter what I do, I can't change the display manager theme (only the debian-maui theme appears). I haven’t surveyed the numerous posts possibly Hi everybody. Again, after several logins with a I just installed an SDDM theme to change the login screen and now I have nothing but a black screen and a mouse cursor when logging out or booting where the login screen should be. Go into System Settings -> Colors & Themes -> After booting sddm fails as above but if I ssh in and do systemctl restart sddm then it does start up correctly and gives the login greeter on the screen. I manage to install the qt5-styleplugins from AUR and rebuild the qt5-base. Changing it back to Breeze, SDDM loaded normally again. Not able to fix the SDDM issue (along with other issues, like placing widgets Once inside Plasma, I opened the System Settings and navigated to the SDDM settings. That’s okay, I could just change it back to the default breeze theme, but there is no SDDM setting in plasma I can log in as root via SDDM and successfully start the desktop, which suggests some kind of misconfiguration for my user account. Now when ever I try to boot, I Upon some investigation online, it seems like a sddm/Xorg problem, since if I boot into tty and start sddm from the command line it recreates the problem. Now when ever I try to boot, I Recently I’ve installed some SDDM themes for my Arch install using the KDE Store, but whenever I apply them in the SDDM manager the login screen is missing and it prompts me to a After a bit of time spent doing other stuff I came back to it to fix the accent color issues and, according to it's page on the KDE store, I had to run a command within the scripts section of it in order to fix the I was using a custom theme, which probably isn’t compatible with KDE Plasma 6. riycgndzlscxavlldtocsldrzgfcasnhrcmhltdgtpoyzgulxwotegak