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vinumoses

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Registered: 2021-05-01

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[SOLVED] Xorg / wayland chooser option missing from sddm in plasma 6.4

After upgrading to plasma 6.4, the Xorg / Wayland, the option to choose Xorg / Wayland is missing from the login page in sddm. How can this be re-enabled once again?

Last edited by vinumoses (2025-06-21 17:39:22)

SimonJ

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Registered: 2021-05-11

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg / wayland chooser option missing from sddm in plasma 6.4

In the news yesterday, I don't have KDE so ignored it

Plasma 6.4.0 will need manual intervention if you are on X11

On Plasma 6.4 the wayland session will be the only one installed when the users does not manually
specify kwin-x11.

With the recent split of kwin into kwin-wayland and kwin-x11, users running the old X11 session
needs to manually install plasma-x11-session, or they will not be able to login. Currently pacman is
not able to figure out your personal setup, and it wouldn't be ok to install plasma-x11-session and
kwin-x11 for every one using Plasma.

tldr: Install plasma-x11-session if you are still using x11

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Rhey_VenFox

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Registered: 2025-06-10

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg / wayland chooser option missing from sddm in plasma 6.4

Thanks for the info! I just updated too and had the same issue and was searching for the answer. Figured it had something to do with the 6.4 release. I guess I'll give Wayland a second shot, at the start it was way laggier for me than x11 in games.

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