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steak

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Registered: 2025-02-13

Posts: 12

Re: KDE black screen

For X11 you'd autologin and implicitly run startx, you don't type anything but boot straight into an (optionally locked) KDE session.
Have you tried a different SDDM theme?

yea i tried resetting to a default sddm theme and it wasnt fixing anything. i even reset/regenerated sddm to the generic profile and it still didnt load.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 69,852

Re: KDE black screen

pacman -Qikk sddm

The journal says

Feb 15 15:37:03 steakmachine sddm[2021]: Greeter starting...

but the process never shows up there.

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