After a successful installation KDE won't initialize

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After a successful installation KDE won't initialize

03 March 2025, 10:36:43

I downloaded an installed the openrc Artix ISO with no issues. The guide ends at the installation of a DM (I chose LightDM) and I haven't been able to initialize KDE/Plasma since.

So far I've tried:

Downloading xorg-xinit, reconfiguring xorg (automatically with X -configure), and running startx. This opened some kind of rudimentary GUI with no actual graphics aside from xclock.
Downloading Nvidia drivers (I got them from the Arch repository. Didn't use xorg to get them) with this command:
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```
sudo pacman -S nvidia-dkms egl-wayland lib32-nvidia-utils lib32-opencl-nvidia nvidia-settings opencl-nvidia nvidia-utils
```
Running startplasma-x11

The third step led to the following error:

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$DISPLAY is not set or cannot connect to the X server.

Re: After a successful installation KDE won't initialize

Reply #1 – 03 March 2025, 11:31:38

Try to start KDE from the console as per https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#From_the_console, and check for errors.

artist

Re: After a successful installation KDE won't initialize

Reply #2 – 03 March 2025, 11:55:25

Quote from: Artist – on 03 March 2025, 11:31:38

Try to start KDE from the console as per https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#From_the_console, and check for errors.

After creating the xinitrc fail and adding the two commands from the article, Plasma started normally.

However, it can't detect my sound devices. I also still need a way to make KDE start automatically on startup.
And, yes, the lightdm service works.

UPDATE: I've also noticed my internet connection is a bit sluggish. For the record I did this whole song and dance in the installation:

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Alternatively, if you will use openrc, Gentoo's netifrc modules can be used, these are located in /etc/init.d/ and work on a script-per-interface basis.

 ip -s link                <- Get the exact name of your interface
 nano /etc/conf.d/net        <- Add config_<interface>="dhcp"
Now the parent script /etc/init.d/net.lo should be symlinked to create additional scripts for each network interface and then loaded into an openrc runlevel.

 ln -s /etc/init.d/net.lo /etc/init.d/net.<interface>
 rc-update add net.<interface> default

Re: After a successful installation KDE won't initialize

Reply #3 – 03 March 2025, 13:02:08

Maybe lightdm is not configured correctly? Check its log file to verify.

artist