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saleem

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Registered: 2011-09-21

Posts: 159

[SOLVED] SDDM theme setting

I changed sddm theme from the default to elegant-archlinux and after that sddm kind of disappeared , all I get is a black screen with mouse arrow which I can whirl around aimlessly for hours and sddm never shows up. Reverting back to default theme does no hep either. Here is my sddm.conf file

[Autologin]
Relogin=false
Session=
User=

[General]
HaltCommand=/usr/bin/systemctl poweroff
InputMethod=
Numlock=none
RebootCommand=/usr/bin/systemctl reboot

[Theme]
Current=elegant-archlinux
CursorTheme=ArchCursorTheme
DisableAvatarsThreshold=7
EnableAvatars=true
FacesDir=/usr/share/sddm/faces
ThemeDir=/usr/share/sddm/themes

[Users]
DefaultPath=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
HideShells=
HideUsers=
MaximumUid=60000
MinimumUid=1000
RememberLastSession=true
RememberLastUser=true

[Wayland]
SessionCommand=/usr/share/sddm/scripts/wayland-session
SessionDir=/usr/share/wayland-sessions
SessionLogFile=.local/share/sddm/wayland-session.log

[X11]
DisplayCommand=/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup
DisplayStopCommand=/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xstop
MinimumVT=1
ServerArguments=-nolisten tcp
ServerPath=/usr/bin/X
SessionCommand=/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsession
SessionDir=/usr/share/xsessions
SessionLogFile=.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log
UserAuthFile=.Xauthority
XauthPath=/usr/bin/xauth
XephyrPath=/usr/bin/Xephyr

It is worth noticing that exact same settings of sddm work perfectly on my other installation but fails on theme setting on IceWM installation ( this is a separate installation )

Help is needed here please.

Thanks

Last edited by saleem (2024-09-02 04:57:11)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 60,393

Re: [SOLVED] SDDM theme setting

There've been several threads suggesting that recent SDDM doesn't work w/ anything but the breeze theme (likely some API break)
However

Reverting back to default theme does no hep either. Here is my sddm.conf file

Change back to Breeze (it's not in the posted config), restart SDDM and post your complete system journal for the boot afterwards:

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

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V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,605

Re: [SOLVED] SDDM theme setting

For any other themes that are based on Qt5 you need qt5-declarative (actually an optdep of SDDM) is that installed?

saleem

Member

Registered: 2011-09-21

Posts: 159

Re: [SOLVED] SDDM theme setting

There've been several threads suggesting that recent SDDM doesn't work w/ anything but the breeze theme (likely some API break)
However

Reverting back to default theme does no hep either. Here is my sddm.conf file

Change back to Breeze (it's not in the posted config), restart SDDM and post your complete system journal for the boot afterwards:

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

Thanks for the information , I did not know about this issue with sddm .Here is output of the command you wanted me to run and paste here after I login to system.

http://0x0.st/Xwza.txt

saleem

Member

Registered: 2011-09-21

Posts: 159

Re: [SOLVED] SDDM theme setting

For any other themes that are based on Qt5 you need qt5-declarative (actually an optdep of SDDM) is that installed?

Thank you so very much. It was an instant fix the moment I installed qt5-declarative all themes started working on SDDM . I knew I am missing some package but could not pin point it , I kept installing all kind of xorg related packages but the issue is with not having optional dependency qt5-declarative which resolved  the matter in seconds .