[Wayland] SDDM Black screen for a few seconds after login, returns back to login screen

[warm raft]

Hello, i've just downloaded SDDM as a login manager for my Hyprland client, however, every time i try to log in, after imputting my password, there is a black screen for a few seconds, and loops me back to the login screen

i've tried a few things already, but none worked, any shared thoughts are appreciated!

[quick yarrow]

Have you enabled SDDM?

(i.e. systemctl enable sddm)

[placid shell]

are you using Nvidia graphics? Last I checked hyprland and nvidia are not nice to each other

[placid shell]

You can get it to work and there's tweaks, one I remember is disabling 3d rendering or hardware accel or smth in the config, but I wouldn't recommend that, ik there's another fix but I'm not at it rn, I'd look around for a log file of hyprland first to be sure

[warm raft]

yes, i did install the nvidia pacman package... should i just full send it and uninstall? i only plan on using arch as a programming workstation, so i wont be dealing with heavy graphical work...

[placid shell]

Idk, you could try to change that setting in your hyprland conf and see how it runs

[next pecan]

Sddm and hyprland don't always go hand in hand,I experienced this same error but it wouldn't even boot me back into the login screen it would just force me to reboot on a black screen

What I'm suspecting is your config is broken since you are using hyprland. Try installing a different DM like lightdm, delete sddm (sudo pacman -R sddm and don't forget to delete all of the dependencies) then download xfce (sudo pacman -S xfce4) and then startxfce4`. Look and see where the problem is there.

[warm raft]

yeah, i suspected something like that when i read a comment in the default.conf file that said something along the lines of it being experimental... i should've dropped it for lightdm after reading that, but i got greedy and tried to make it work...

[warm raft]

so; i just basically "sudo pacman -Rs sddm"'ed and installed lightdm and a bunch of other stuff i saw heavily recommended (the greeter and its webkit2 version)... and then i install xface? i thought hyprland was supposed to be a graphical interface... sorry, im just kinda new to this distro, (used manjaro for a while but didnt really liked how cluttered it was...) and as much as i try to absorb information some things just slip off...

[next pecan]

No xcfe is a extremely lightweight de for arch Linux. No one mains it because it lacks some features. Most people use it to fix their system when their current de (in this case, hyprland) is broken

[warm raft]

hmmm, i understand, i guess its good to have as a backup, but it isnt really necessary if you just know your way around the terminal, right? i am installing it nontheless just for the sake of comfort

by the way, which xface should i install? i just searched it and there are like 6 versions of it, although most people just talk about the last 3 (4, 5 and 6, mostly 4 tho)

nevermind, the other 2 are just community made, im sticking to the 4

[next pecan]

Yea that should be the one

[next pecan]

Honestly if you feel comfortable with the terminal, you should be able to find the culprit, but it's annoying in my opinion to cd into your home, and use ls every time.

[warm raft]

just tried to pacman -S xface4, and it says package is not found... huh...

[next pecan]

xfce4 not xface4

[warm raft]

damn, i AM really THAT dumb... yep, it works now...

[next pecan]

Don't worry lol 😭

[warm raft]

its all good!!! now i can go back to searching a thousand customization tutorials to set up a cool ahh login screen (and maybe find the courage to tinker with the waybar...) man this sh.t is rough... cant say is boring tho...

[next pecan]

Yea hyprland is a extremely hard de to configure, and many people have switched from it to to other ones because of how confusing it is

Just don't use ML4L. It's boring and just looks ugly.

[warm raft]

i came here from sway on manjaro, it looked a lot more simple and basic, but it was also that much simpler to set up too... fluid animations got me hooked though, i cant afford to go back now lol

[next pecan]

Yea I never used those but trust me hyprland is the sexiest looking de I've ever used.

[warm raft]

agreed, and its really not THAT hard to set up if you get used to it

Nah, im just coping at this point, it IS that hard...; anyways, im closing this thread, moral of the story, kids, dont use sddm with wayland unless you want a migraine and have to delete a bunch of empty config folders...

[next pecan]

Huh what

What about your problem?

[warm raft]

my problem was with sddm not working, i just swapped to lightdm and now it just... works, somehow

[next pecan]

Oh lmao 😭

[warm raft]

what else do you expect me to suffer with?! lmaooo

ngl i am kinda sad i didnt get to have sddm, since it looked really nice, but i think i can get lightdm to work similarly, so its no biggie...

i might tinker with it on a vm in the future to see if i can get it running without issues...

[next pecan]

I was thinking the problem was the .config you were using but I guess not 😭

[warm raft]

the hyprland config file you mean? i double checked it a thousand times to no avail, and since i never got to have a config file for sddm other than the default one, i dont think it was that either...

i tried swapping a variable that contained X11 to wayland, as it said in a comment inside, and the result was the exact same, so i just started to search for stuff without any luck...