[arch-general] Plasma 5

[Paul Gideon Dann]

On 16 February 2015 at 18:14, Kevin Ott <supercodingmonkey at 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