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Dim8DGH

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Registered: 2024-05-22

Posts: 7

login failed sddm

I have tried to install  sugar-candy theme for SDDM on Arch and it worked, but the problem is that it always gives me "login failed." I have to press Ctrl + Alt + F3 to open a terminal and switch back to the previous theme. But I don't know why only this theme gives me the error. Do you know how to fix it? Because I would really like to use that theme.

d_fajardo

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Registered: 2017-07-28

Posts: 1,656

Re: login failed sddm

How did you install the theme?

Dim8DGH

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Registered: 2024-05-22

Posts: 7

Re: login failed sddm

I used yay and i tried directly from github, too

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,875

Re: login failed sddm

Do you know whether the theme is updated for Qt6 based SDDM? Chances are it isn't.

Checking the github no updates in 4 years, checking a bit deeper a suggestion in a comment: https://github.com/Kangie/sddm-sugar-ca … 2106193155 -- chances that this is sufficient to fix this aren't really a given but potentially worth a try,

Last edited by V1del (2024-05-23 14:08:58)

Dim8DGH

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Registered: 2024-05-22

Posts: 7

Re: login failed sddm

Without changing the files using sddm-greeter --test-mode --theme /usr/share/sddm/themes/Sugar-Candy everthing appareantly work, but when i change the theme and i try to log doesnt work

KEDmer

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Registered: 2024-10-22

Posts: 1

Re: login failed sddm

I just found a way to solve this problem.
vim /usr/share/sddm/themes/sugar-candy/theme.conf
And then change the AllowBadUsernames into "true".
Then the problem fixed

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 60,779

Re: login failed sddm

\o/
Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

ooc, what  was the "bad" username?

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