Plasmashell isnt working

[limpid onyx]

OS:ARCH
HARDWARE:amd radeon rx 6500xt
(i can tell others if necessary)
WHATS WRONG:plasmashell doesnt load properly
WHAT I WAS DOING: Before this issue i downloaded lact for controlling my amd gpu fan speed
And i tried ricing with plasma-smart-video wallpaper-reborn but it didnt work so i ran this command "sudo pacman -S qt6-multimedia qt6-multimedia-gstreamer gst-libav --needed" thats given in the github page but i did not continue with the 2nd step

To fix this i tried to delete the packages i downloaded and did "sudo pacman -Syuu"
But it didnt work

Update

I fucked up more

I tried to install ffmpeg becuase its the default one

And ran journalctl --user -xeu plasma-plasmashell.service

These things had qt6 things before

[vernal ivy]

Tried reinstalling? Not exactly an arch fan, but it legitimately what it says on the screenshot

[limpid onyx]

Reinstalling what tho

I tried re installing plasma it didnt work

[vernal ivy]

It says also available platforms

Tried installing any of those?

Like Wayland (god I hate Wayland)

[limpid onyx]

Let me try

Well wayland was already installed re installing didnt work

[vernal ivy]

Try this
ldd /usr/lib/qt/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so

Might show broken libraries and dependencies

Also might be a dumb question, but you sure you got a Display manager on?

[limpid onyx]

Uh

How do i check it?

I accidentally forced myself to use linux so i am sorry for my inedaquateness

[limpid onyx]

And it brought a heck ton of libraries

[limpid onyx]

Well display manager seems to be on

[vernal ivy]

Nah, it's all good

So basically, you have to type

which``` and type in one of three Display Managers (at least from what I know.
XDM - being extremely minimalistic
LightDM - being still minimalistic, but with a choice of selection of a session to boot in.
SDDM - Very heavy. Never actually used it

which command shows where the package is being installed iirc

So if no output = no output

And also if you go straight to terminal window (no graphical stuff) = no Display Manager

[limpid onyx]

It returns "no * in /(some folder)"

God did i delete my sddm

[vernal ivy]

hm? That's the actual output of which?

[limpid onyx]

Let me send a pic

[vernal ivy]

Well

Install sddm

I hope you know how

[limpid onyx]

Yeah let me try pacman

[vernal ivy]

and usually it's all lowercase

[limpid onyx]

Is paru better for this?

Or worse

[vernal ivy]

Got no clue, I am Debian user

[limpid onyx]

Ah pacman it is

Then

[vernal ivy]

So I use apt for pretty much anything

[limpid onyx]

It says reinstalling?

So it is downloaded

Bruh

I typed "which SDDM"

[vernal ivy]

Try systemctl status sddm

[limpid onyx]

It was lowercase

[vernal ivy]

The service itself might've died

[limpid onyx]

Its active

[vernal ivy]

Then maybe restarting?

with systemctl restart sddm

[limpid onyx]

Did it it got me to where i boot into

[vernal ivy]

Yeah, standard behaviour

[limpid onyx]

Just these things

[vernal ivy]

For me it just put me on login screen (I use XDM, but I assume the same is true for other DMs)

[limpid onyx]

Yeah this isnt the usual screen

This used to come up before the greeter and plasma loaded

Now it seems stuck

[vernal ivy]

Ctrl+Alt+1 should put you into TTY session

[limpid onyx]

1 as in f1?

Or the number

[vernal ivy]

No

The number

Or

Hold up

Prolly F1

[limpid onyx]

I can get into tty2 and tty3

[limpid onyx]

I think this is tty1

Yeah

It is

[vernal ivy]

Or you can just use tmux

[limpid onyx]

I am.not that familiar with it

As a Kde?

[vernal ivy]

Oh, it's fairly simple:

Ctrl+B, C - create a new window
Ctrl+B, 0-9 - select the window represented by a number

[vernal ivy]

Nah, tmux is like a terminal, but better

For DE I can recommend using either openbox or LightDM

[limpid onyx]

I wonder if i can switch DE's through here

[vernal ivy]

Yes, in LightDM you can actually select a session you wanna go in (XFCE4, Plasma or Openbox)

In XDM you have to tweak a config file

[limpid onyx]

Uh

I think i did something

[vernal ivy]

Also just installed SDDM, immediately seen that the default session is Plasma (Wayland) and I instantly decided to uninstall it andnever come back to it ever again

[limpid onyx]

It worked???

Wth

[vernal ivy]

Huh?

[limpid onyx]

dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland

Just did this and it loaded in

Huh

Imma try to restart and see if it reboots inside on its own

Wth

[vernal ivy]

I got legitimately 0 clue on what you did

But good job 👍

[limpid onyx]

Same :3

[vernal ivy]

Wanna hop on the call? Might explain you a couple of Linux basics (if you need ofc some learning about admining it properly)

[limpid onyx]

My connections sucks because turkey banned discord and i have to use a vpn

[vernal ivy]

Damn, dude, same. I live in Russia

[limpid onyx]

Someone got.arrested for swearing at putin for blocking discord here

[vernal ivy]

I dunno