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Rasmussen

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Registered: 2012-10-27

Posts: 6

Same problem with SDDM, LightDM and plasma

Hi everybody.
Recently I do fresh install on my laptop with optimus, but when I install plasma, I've faced same problem with desktop managers.
I've tried both SDDM and LightDM. They both startig well and show username and password fields.
But since after I provide password - nothing happens, just a blank screen.
I've checked /usr/share/xsession dir - plasma.desktop is presented and it contains Exec=/usr/bin/startkde.

I can start kde manually If sddm.service or lightdm.service is running.
I've looked in /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log, but I haven't seen there any 'startkde' or familiar entry.
For me it's just looks like that I'd just missing 'startkde' somewhere in config files, but I can't realize, where exactly.

Thanks for patience.

Rasmussen

Member

Registered: 2012-10-27

Posts: 6

Re: Same problem with SDDM, LightDM and plasma

Okay, I've found the reason of this behavior.
I used zsh as default shell. After I changed it to bash, everything come back to normal.