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GoldPotato

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Registered: 2024-12-09

Posts: 21

My plasma X11 is not working

Hey Arch users, I have a strange issue with my plasma x11, when I try to switch to plasma x11 I get a black screen with only my cursor moving around, now you may say that it is a problem with my xserver or something but hey,my i3 which runs on x11 is working perfectly, and plasma on wayland is working perfectly also (I followed the instruction on the official wiki this time to make sure I don't miss things up).
but I had bad experience with plasma on wayland so I decided to try plasma on x11but it won't work.
I tried many thing I saw on the wiki and googled alot about this matter and nothing really helped me out.
how can I fix this issue?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: My plasma X11 is not working

Do you get to see stuff when suspending the compositor (SHIFT+Alt+F12)?
Please post your Xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General

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mactan

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Registered: 2025-03-03

Posts: 1

Re: My plasma X11 is not working

same for me on a several years old install that's got x11 and wayland plasma sessions, wayland session is fine but the x11 session leaves a black screen with cursor only. nothing happens with (SHIFT+Alt+F12). nothing particularly anomalous looking in ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.1.log however `journalctl -p3 -xb` seems to indicate that a great many KDE units are failing, and have systemd-coredump entries. its been doing it for a while but i didn't have a desire to use x11 until today

edit: ah I missed undoing a temporary setting I had placed attempting to resolve my issues with flameshot under wayland https://github.com/flameshot-org/flames … 2687395272

Last edited by mactan (2025-03-03 22:50:26)