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niksaexe

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Registered: 2022-10-06

Posts: 1

SDDM black screen with mouse cursor

Hello, i am having a small problem here

GUI doesnt appear after systemd. This happened yesyerday after downloading some ui tweaks for kde plasma (pointers, window decorations) and i think that is what caused the problem. I am not sure what to do, here's what i tried (i use arch):

Deleting pacman packages from yesterday (some were aur but i dont know how to check the log)

Uninstalling and installing SDDM and xorg-server.

Uninstalling nvidia, nvidia-utils

Enabling and disabling sddm.service

Installing lightdm also didng work

$DISPLAY doesnt output anything

kstart5 plasmashell ouputs: Could not connect to display (Core dumped)

sddm-helper exitedwith 6

InfamousMower

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Registered: 2022-09-05

Posts: 5

Re: SDDM black screen with mouse cursor

Which kernel version are you using?

luich91

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Registered: 2021-10-12

Posts: 39

Re: SDDM black screen with mouse cursor

you could try uninstalling DE and xorg, try again from 0. Use the pacman -Rs function