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Ozzy_Helix_

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Registered: 2023-11-26

Posts: 74

Problems with SDDM not being interactive

I use SDDM to login to my Plasma Wayland session. I have encountered an issue where my mouse and keyboard turn themselves off or stop responding entirely. I have only found two ways to get around this issue. setting SDDM to auto login my user or turning off sddm's service using ssh. I would like help to figure out why my keyboard and mouse works in Plasma Wayland session and tty but not sddm

killertofus

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Registered: 2025-02-10

Posts: 166

Re: Problems with SDDM not being interactive

are you using  DisplayServer=wayland https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM#Wayland

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Ozzy_Helix_

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Registered: 2023-11-26

Posts: 74

Re: Problems with SDDM not being interactive

my /etc/sddm.conf file is blank

Ozzy_Helix_

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Registered: 2023-11-26

Posts: 74

Re: Problems with SDDM not being interactive

I created a file at

/etc/sddm.conf.d/10-wayland.conf

with the contents of

[General]
DisplayServer=wayland
GreeterEnvironment=QT_WAYLAND_SHELL_INTEGRATION=layer-shell

[Wayland]
CompositorCommand=kwin_wayland --drm --no-lockscreen --no-global-shortcuts --locale1

that seems to have fixed it for the moment but the issue may return

the sddm service needed to be restarted for the change to take effect

it also needs

sudo pacman -S qt6-wayland layer-shell-qt kwin

Last edited by Ozzy_Helix_ (2026-01-06 22:04:55)