Working inside a VirtualBox virtual machine. Installed Arch Linux using the Archinstall method. Chose KDE as the DE and SDDM as the greeting screen.

Managed to log in once, but after adding a language and rebooting, I didn’t seem to be able to change the keyboard layout, making entering the correct password impossible. I have tried looking up how to switch the keyboard layout, but am coming up with nothing. What is the key combination to change the keyboard layout in SDDM?

Setting up a different virtual machine now.

  • BaalInvokerA
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    6 months ago

    I’m glad you solved!

    Also, in case you wouldn’t mind helping me with this other thing that is outside the scope of the initial complaint: where do I find the KDE cube options? It doesn’t seem to be in the Window management options, nor do I see a downloadable version of the such. The KDE plasma version is 6.0.5.

    Well, I may take a look, but I’m not a KDE user at all. I’m on Gnome for over 5 years already.

    Try Settings > Window Management > Desktop Effects > “Windows Management” section > Overview and configure it.

    However looks like to make it work, you should have at least 3 virtual desktops.

    I suggest you to open a new thread with this question, cause I really don’t know enough about KDE

    • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Try Settings > Window Management > Desktop Effects > “Windows Management” section > Overview and configure it

      The problem is that there is no such option there, which is why I’m asking.

      It seems that I need to install kdeplasma-addons. I will need to look into how people usually use pacman, as it keeps asking me to login as root.