Every time i try to log in specifically with my main user with plasma wayland, the screen goes black for a bit longer than usual, and im greeted by a black screen with an underscore in the top left corner. Im able to log into plasma wayland just fine with a different user, and plasma X11 with my mai…

Hey snowcat, good to have you with us. :slight_smile: Can you give us a little more information about your system? The below should do it. inxi -Gaz I’m going to assume you’re fully updated on your drivers (again assuming nVidia..) but if there’s anything else you can let us know, - such as wheth…

Hi! Heres what that command outputs: Graphics: Device-1:NVIDIA TU106 [GeForce GTX 1650]vendor:ASUSTeKdriver:nvidia v:590.48.01alternate:nouveau,nvidia_drmnon-free:550-580.xx+ status:current (as of 2025-11; EOL~2026-12-xx)arch:Turingcode:TUxxx process:TSMC 12nm FFbuilt:2018-2022pcie: ge…

Drivers from arch repos do not support your card anymore. Please look for respective announcement and proceed accordingly. You need to install dkms drivers from AUR. If this is not the case, I am having all sort of glitches and bugs with plasma wayland session on verity of hardware. So it is as exp…

[image] snowcat: GeForce GTX 1650 Looks like your card isn’t fully supported on your current setup ; try sudo pacman -S nvidia-installer-dkms then pull from the AUR : yay -S nvidia-470xx-dkms and install nvidia-settings

Im sorry, but pacman is giving me this error? error: target not found: nvidia-installer-dkms Either way, i installed nvidia-470xx-dkms, it of course didnt do much, presumably because i didnt install half of what you asked me to. Thank you for your patience!

Not sure if it will help any, sudo pacman -Ss package-name the small s is search im not up on nvidia sorry. Data

Downgraded ddcutil down to 2.2.3, and then 2.0.0 just to be sure, but sadly still nothing :confused: Ill upgrade it back to 2.2.5, as it seems unrelated and might maybe possibly potentially cause issues in the future. Thank you for the suggestion though!

Yeah, I’m thinking this might actually be more similar to an issue I had to fix just about 12 hours ago. What’s the output of the following? cat /etc/sddm.conf

Black screen w/ underscore on wayland login

Desktop Environments Plasma

pjbcr February 8, 2026, 7:53pm 7

Hi @snowcat

There is a bug going around with ddcutils that freezes plasma right after login with wayland.

Downgrading ddcutils might fix this issue.

Have a look at this post