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Kosmas12

Member

Registered: 2019-09-22

Posts: 13

KDE Plasma Black Screen

Hello everyone!
I installed Arch Linux a few days ago on VirtualBox and I installed KDE Plasma, KDE applications and SDDM, also ran systemctl enable sddm (sorry I don't know how to make it appear like a command), and, anyway, the Login Screen loads fine, but after logging in it just stays in a black screen. I have installed the xf86-video-vmware driver and xorg-server. At first i had a login loop problem, but that was fixed after creating a missing /home/ folder. But now I have this problem. Any help will be appreciated.

P.S.: Don't tell me to search Google. I didn't find anything that can help me, which is the reason I am asking here.

Last edited by Kosmas12 (2019-09-25 18:06:34)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,372

Re: KDE Plasma Black Screen

Look at your journal and your xorg logs, like the last time you had the home folder problem. FWIW I've seen many people mentioning issues with the vmware driver, that might not appear by switching to the older VBox one, so that might be an avenue to go down. In general more information, like how your VM is actually configured, what you tried to do to identify the issue, did you follow the guest section of the wiki post any relevant output in [ code ] [ /code ] tags.

Which instructions did you follow to install Arch?

Kosmas12

Member

Registered: 2019-09-22

Posts: 13

Re: KDE Plasma Black Screen

Sorry for the delay. The notification came very late.

Anyway, I didn't look at my journals when i did that home directory thing. How do I check them? How do i switch to the older VBox driver? I didn't follow the guest section.

I installed through the official guide.

Last edited by Kosmas12 (2019-09-27 20:16:59)