On 16 February 2015 at 18:14, Kevin Ott <supercodingmonkey@gmail.com> wrote:
1) I'm using SDDM now, but even with KDE4, I was unable to get SDDM to actually launch a Plasma session. After entering my details, I get a black screen and no further activity. I have to switch to another console, log in, and invoke startx myself.
I had this problem too for a while. It turned out that I had zsh misconfigured in some way. I cleared out all my zsh configuration files to start fresh and sddm worked. I still don't know exactly what caused it and it certainly may be an upstream bug, but that solved it for me.
Thanks; you got me on the right track looking into ZSH. I found the fix here: https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/358/files This applies to /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsession, and I guess it'll be rolled into the next sddm release. Paul