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.

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

    Exactly

    Didn’t work.

    Read my other comment. Maybe this is the breeze setting that does not have any way to change layout at the logging screen

    This issue seems to be resolved now, but the only layouts that I can switch between are the ones I manually set in the settings of the OS after I managed to change the login screen to a different one that allowed me to input the password in English.

    This is weird, considering that on the previous installation, without having to manually set multiple layouts, I was able to switch between different layouts, but only outside of the ‘bad’ login screen. For clarity: the ‘bad’ login screen currently does allow me to switch between different layouts.

    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.

    • BaalInvokerA
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      5 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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        5 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.