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dcy3rka

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Registered: 2022-01-19

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[SOLVED] Cannot switch user: XDG_SEAT_PATH not set

If I want to switch the user via startmenu -> switch user, it doesn't work anymore since update to plasma 6.0.

# journalctl
plasmashell[137288]: org.kde.plasma.libkworkspace: Cannot switch user: XDG_SEAT_PATH not set

I'm using:
- plasma 6.0.3
- gdm 46.0
- wayland

Any help, where I have to set XDG_SEAT_PATH?

Last edited by dcy3rka (2024-04-18 21:25:53)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot switch user: XDG_SEAT_PATH not set

"not" - that's GDMs job.

echo $XDG_SEAT_PATH # /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0 ?

The problem is likely that plasma starts as a systemd user unit and doesn't inherit the environment, see also eg. https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm/issues/1234

Do NOT hardcode that value anywhere
You could also try SDDM instead of GDM (whether it eg. sets the value earlier)

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dcy3rka

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Registered: 2022-01-19

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot switch user: XDG_SEAT_PATH not set

You could also try SDDM instead of GDM (whether it eg. sets the value earlier)

I switched to GDM because of many problems. But since the new release of SDDM with many bugfixes and maybe in the future in the lead of KDE I will give it another try. The user switch is working again with SDDM.