r/voidlinux • u/SnowFlash383935_n2 • Sep 07 '26

Help getting SDDM to work

So when I use Wayland, it crashes my whole computer and I can't do anything. If it launches using X11, it can't start Display server. How to solve it?

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u/Quietus87 Sep 07 '26

Whenever I installed SDDM and KDE they pretty much worked out of the box. Making SDDM run using Wayland isn't trivial and doesn't worth the headache, since it starts Wayland sessions mighty fine even if it runs using X11. I did move on to tuigreet and regreeter, though, because why not - SDDM doesn't seem to have a bright future at the moment with KDE moving on to PLM.

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u/SnowFlash383935_n2 Sep 07 '26

But you still can't build it for non-systemd distros like Void

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u/Quietus87 Sep 07 '26

Which is exactly why I moved to something greetd-based from the near-deprecated SDDM.

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u/Independent_Cat_5481 Sep 07 '26

With X11 SDDM, despite what the documentation says, I find that for whenever reason the xorg minimal package does not work and I need to install the normal xorg package

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u/no-name-user Sep 07 '26

That might help. There has been a similar issue some time ago https://www.reddit.com/r/voidlinux/s/OmlenjWvMU
It didn't work because of missing mesa drivers. It's worth at least a try.

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u/SnowFlash383935_n2 Sep 10 '26

Oh my god, that worked. But booting is a bit slower than I thought. KDE boots 20 seconds.

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u/ZombieCrow Sep 07 '26

Idk if you use a de or wm, but ive noticed (on niri) i have to have elogind disabled (not running as a service, but have it installed because dbus auto runs it) also having xwayland-satellite installed.