[SOLVED] ssdm inverted text

madeye · 2015-05-22 20:34:01

I have run into a small problem with my login manager. I have been using sddm for a while now. It replaced lightdm.
From the beginning when I installed it, there was this problem with the font looking like it was inversed. As I don't really need to read what I have to type, I've been ignoring it for a long time. But now I would like to figure out why it is doing this.

Screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/mmeN59V.jpg

Searching in the forum gave me one hit, which told me that the ttf-dejavu font should be installed. However I already have this font installed.

$ pacman -Ss dejavu
extra/ttf-dejavu 2.34-2 [installed]
    Font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts with a wider range of characters

I tried changing the default theme to another one. This did not help either.
There is nothing in the log (that I can see) which indicates where the problem lies.

I am unsure what to try now and would welcome any hints.

System:

$ uname -a
Linux smoke 4.0.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon May 18 06:43:19 CEST 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Running lxqt with openbox as wm

sddm package

$ pacman -Ss sddm

extra/sddm 0.11.0-1 [installed]
    QML based X11 display manager

Some additional information:

$ journalctl -e -u sddm

-- Reboot --
May 22 21:10:01 smoke sddm[500]: Initializing...
May 22 21:10:01 smoke sddm[500]: Starting...
May 22 21:10:01 smoke sddm[500]: Adding new display 0 on vt 1 ...
May 22 21:10:01 smoke sddm[500]: Adding cookie to "/var/run/sddm/:0"
May 22 21:10:02 smoke sddm[500]: Display server starting...
May 22 21:10:02 smoke sddm[500]: Running: /usr/bin/X :0 -auth /var/run/sddm/:0 -nolisten tcp -background none -noreset vt1
May 22 21:10:05 smoke sddm[500]: Signal received: SIGUSR1
May 22 21:10:05 smoke sddm[500]: Running display setup script  "/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup"
May 22 21:10:05 smoke sddm[500]: Display server started.
May 22 21:10:05 smoke sddm[500]: Socket server starting...
May 22 21:10:05 smoke sddm[500]: Socket server started.
May 22 21:10:05 smoke sddm[500]: Greeter starting...
May 22 21:10:05 smoke sddm-helper[555]: [PAM] Starting...
May 22 21:10:05 smoke sddm-helper[555]: [PAM] Authenticating...
May 22 21:10:05 smoke sddm-helper[555]: [PAM] returning.                                                        
May 22 21:10:05 smoke sddm-helper[555]: pam_unix(sddm-greeter:session): session opened for user sddm by (uid=0)
May 22 21:10:05 smoke sddm[500]: Greeter session started successfully
May 22 21:10:07 smoke sddm[500]: Message received from greeter: Connect
May 22 21:15:05 smoke sddm[500]: Message received from greeter: Login
May 22 21:15:05 smoke sddm[500]: Reading from "lxqt.desktop"                                                        
May 22 21:15:06 smoke sddm-helper[571]: [PAM] Starting...                                                        
May 22 21:15:06 smoke sddm-helper[571]: [PAM] Authenticating...                                                        
May 22 21:15:06 smoke sddm-helper[571]: [PAM] Preparing to converse...
May 22 21:15:06 smoke sddm-helper[571]: [PAM] Conversation with 1 messages
May 22 21:15:06 smoke sddm-helper[571]: [PAM] returning.
May 22 21:15:06 smoke sddm[500]: Authenticated successfully
May 22 21:15:06 smoke sddm-helper[571]: pam_unix(sddm:session): session opened for user rene by (uid=0)
May 22 21:15:06 smoke sddm[500]: Auth: sddm-helper exited successfully
May 22 21:15:06 smoke sddm[500]: Greeter stopped.
May 22 21:15:06 smoke sddm[500]: Session started

$ systemctl status sddm

● sddm.service - Simple Desktop Display Manager
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sddm.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2015-05-22 21:10:00 CEST; 20min ago
     Docs: man:sddm(1)
           man:sddm.conf(5)
 Main PID: 500 (sddm)
   CGroup: /system.slice/sddm.service
           ├─500 /usr/bin/sddm
           └─507 /usr/lib/xorg-server/Xorg :0 -auth /var/run/sddm/:0 -nolisten tcp -background none -noreset vt1

May 22 21:15:06 smoke sddm-helper[571]: [PAM] Starting...
May 22 21:15:06 smoke sddm-helper[571]: [PAM] Authenticating...
May 22 21:15:06 smoke sddm-helper[571]: [PAM] Preparing to converse...
May 22 21:15:06 smoke sddm-helper[571]: [PAM] Conversation with 1 messages
May 22 21:15:06 smoke sddm-helper[571]: [PAM] returning.
May 22 21:15:06 smoke sddm[500]: Authenticated successfully
May 22 21:15:06 smoke sddm-helper[571]: pam_unix(sddm:session): session opened for user rene by (uid=0)
May 22 21:15:06 smoke sddm[500]: Auth: sddm-helper exited successfully
May 22 21:15:06 smoke sddm[500]: Greeter stopped.
May 22 21:15:06 smoke sddm[500]: Session started

EDIT:
I fixed it. What exactly did the trick is a little unclear though.
Checking up on ssdm stated it to be the replacement for kdm, which made me think something in kde (which I am only using part of) could be the culprit.
I installed plasma, and ssdm started to show everything correctly. Thinking to narrow down the real package that I needed, I uninstalled plasma again so I could isntall the single packages one by one. But ssdm just kept working as it should.
Now I can only guess that when I installed plasma also a config file got installed that took care of the problem.

Last edited by madeye (2015-05-24 17:57:32)

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#1 2015-05-22 20:34:01

[SOLVED] ssdm inverted text

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