At first Instead of my SDDM I would just see an after image of what was last displayed on screen. But if I typed in my password and pressed enter, it would let me in just fine. Then after following some suggestions from users in r/Kubuntu I’ve made a bit of progress. Now when I boot up my computer instead of the SDDM being invisible, it now doesn’t load at all, from there I switch to tty3 then back to tty2 and then log in through the terminal. After that I run startplasma-wayland and then I have access to my desktop. The post where all this went down - https://www.reddit.com/r/Kubuntu/comments/1nvreuo/sddm_not_rendering/
Does anyone know a fix? I would like to be able to see my login screen.
Here’s my specs in case that would help - https://i.imgur.com/XtC43zw.png
And here’s my journalctl output after booting and launching plasma - https://pastebin.com/nnGsWebd
SDDM is really buggy and I would just recommend switching to a different session manager
That’s an option? How would I go about doing that?
you can install it from your package manager, disable the sddm service and enable the service associated with the session manager you installed
Had the same issue on arch. This is what fixed it for me https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM#KDE_Plasma_/_KWin
I have had that happen to me on my Opensuse Tumbleweed with KDE and wayland. When it happens, it is because of Nvidia drivers. I have pinned mine, to an earlier version.
I tried an older version of the nvidia driver and nouveau and the issue still persisted on both.
