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antony

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Registered: 2011-07-14

Posts: 43

[Solved] SDDM only shows background screen

All's in the title: at startup, SDDM only shows the background screen, without any list of users (which have UIDs starting from 1000) or login prompt.
As a comparison GDM works fine, whereas KDM just gave a black screen (but I gave up on it as this is for a new install so I'm going straight to KF5).
Any help would be welcome.

Last edited by antony (2015-02-03 14:57:02)

pb

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From: Krakow, PL

Registered: 2014-12-26

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Re: [Solved] SDDM only shows background screen

Please show us your /etc/sddm.conf

antony

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Registered: 2011-07-14

Posts: 43

Re: [Solved] SDDM only shows background screen

There was none (ArchWiki explicitly states that everything should work out of the box).  Issue was fixed after a couple of logins via GDM -- probably some account initialization issue(?).