[arch-general] Plasma 5

[Kevin Ott]

On Monday, February 16, 2015 01:03:36 PM Paul Gideon Dann wrote:
> After switching to Plasma 5 from KDE SC 4, I have a couple of small issue,
> and I wonder if anyone else already has a solution?
> 
> 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.