issue with entering KDE plasma from SDDM

[shell carbon]

i cant log in to KDE plasma with SDDM

[lusty root]

Does the wayland version do the same thing

[shell carbon]

yes

[lusty root]

Does launching from tty work then?

[shell carbon]

ig i tried but how to launch it from TTY ??

i just forgot

[lusty root]

Dbus-run-session (session)

[shell carbon]

like this ??

[lusty root]

The d is small

In the beggining

[shell carbon]

kk

[lusty root]

But im not sure abt kde's name

[shell carbon]

wait let me google it

[lusty root]

Tbh if you are using kde X11 id use startx

Wait....

Did you download X server and wayland server

[shell carbon]

X server

[lusty root]

Type groups

It might be a group issue

[lusty root]

Add yourself to the render group

And generate the x config file

Then install the xorg tools

And then you are set

Same happened with me when installing xfce

[shell carbon]

how?

iam little bit dumb

so please be patient with me

[lusty root]

Sudo gpasswd -a (username) render

But for me to be honest you need install the entierty of xorg

And generate the xorg config

Then make an .xinitrc

[shell carbon]

how is the xorg tools package named ??

[lusty root]

Just do sudo emerge --ask xorg

[lusty root]

Lemme check package name

x11-base/xorg-x11

[lusty root]

x11-base/xorg-proto
x11-base/xorg-drivers
​x11-base/xorg-server

[shell carbon]

ig i have the server 100% and idk about other

[lusty root]

The ones who say R are installed

If they are all installed

Its the xorg config

[shell carbon]

i dont have the proto

done

next step ??

[lusty root]

Generate a new xorg config

WAIT

WHEN YOU LOG IN YOUR USER

[shell carbon]

how... 3:

[shell carbon]

yea??

[lusty root]

DOES IT SAY FAILED TO START USER

[shell carbon]

where ?

[lusty root]

When you log in tty

As yourself

[shell carbon]

no

it just logs in

[lusty root]

Install elogind if you dont have it

[shell carbon]

i have

[lusty root]

Then its not elogind

Gotta be the xorg file

[shell carbon]

so how to generate it ??

[lusty root]

Wait

Make a file

[shell carbon]

yea

[lusty root]

Called .xinitrc

In your home directory

[shell carbon]

usr home dir

[lusty root]

Yes

[shell carbon]

done

[lusty root]

Nano /home/(username) .xinitrc

[shell carbon]

what to put in??

[lusty root]

And put this
exec startplasma-x11

[shell carbon]

done

[lusty root]

Save it

[shell carbon]

done

[lusty root]

Log in your user

[shell carbon]

TTY ??

[lusty root]

Yes

[shell carbon]

done

[lusty root]

Do sudo chown (username) ~/.xinitrc

[shell carbon]

done

[lusty root]

Now simply type startx

[shell carbon]

i mean .... it still runs in TTY7

[lusty root]

Ohhhh

[shell carbon]

with that thing i sent on start of this thread

[lusty root]

Kill sddm

And anything thats running kde rn

[shell carbon]

how to kill proces in linux using kill command ?? 3:

[lusty root]

pkill -9 sddm

[shell carbon]

thx

[lusty root]

Now do startx

[shell carbon]

okey iam in

[lusty root]

It got in kde?

Ofc

Ofc ofc

Its an sddm issue

Stick to startx

[shell carbon]

so allwas manually type startx ??

[lusty root]

Yeah

[shell carbon]

okey... how to delete sddm than ??

[lusty root]

First do

Sudo rc-update remove sddm default

So it doesnt start on startup

[shell carbon]

option remove doesnt exist

[lusty root]

Wait

Sudo rc-update del sddm default

[shell carbon]

dome ig

[lusty root]

Now to delete sddm

Do

Sudo emerge --ask --depclean sddm

[shell carbon]

done ?

[lusty root]

....

Something is relying on sddm

Add the verbose flag

I wanna see who is relying on sddm

[lusty root]

Yeah keep sddm

Kde wants it

But bcz sddm doesnt startup on boot now

You are basically done

[shell carbon]

oke thank you for your time :3

[lusty root]

Np anytime

[shell carbon]

btw last question...

how to automate that startx ??

[lusty root]

Make a .sh files that makes it so that if user.aduskaaa starts it executes startx

I honestly wouldnt install kde just because kde takes a day abd a half on my cpu

[shell carbon]

it took maybe an hour on mine so... :3

and i honestly like it

[lusty root]

E

[shell carbon]

i just didnt liked how bloated it was on fedora

[lusty root]

YOU HAVE A THREADRIPPER

OR SMTH

[shell carbon]

no

Ryzen 5 7600 XDDD

[lusty root]

I have a i3-4160 and a mechanical harddisk and 6 gbs of ram

[shell carbon]

yaiks....

happens :3

[lusty root]

Upgrading to an i7 with 8 cores of the same gen

Which is way better

And gonna get 16 gigs of ram

[shell carbon]

i know :3

[lusty root]

Is your gpu an nvidia gpu?

[shadow dome]

dang

i will probably also have to go through all this

since I'm installing kde tmrw

sddm indeed sucks

[shell carbon]

no... AMD

[lusty root]

Good enough

Alr im making a script for ya

Since i have nothing to do really

here ya go

uh

it didnt send

wth

uhhhhh

[shadow dome]

put into codeblock

[fair haven]

@shell carbon, I'm sorry that you went through all this trouble during your transition to Gentoo. Normally, a new user shouldn't encounter such an error, but it seems there was a oversight somewhere and you experienced a mistake.

If you ever encounter a new problem or simply want to learn some practical information, I'm sure the community will be happy to help you.