I was making a custom splash screen and everything is working fine but i don’t know what happened i can’t apply splash screens, the button greys out. Even with other splash themes i downloaded from the store.
I tried rebooting and installing plasma again but didn’t work. Is there any way to unbug this ? Can i apply the theme from the terminal ?
Does the button activate if you click on a different splash screen first?
Nope. That’s the problem.
That is odd.
You can certainly set it manually.
The setting should be in /etc/sddm.conf or in a file in /etc/sddm.conf.d
Those settings are for sddm and there is nothing there about the splash screen 
[Autologin]
Relogin=false
Session=plasma
User=
[General]
HaltCommand=/usr/bin/systemctl poweroff
RebootCommand=/usr/bin/systemctl reboot
[Theme]
Current=KDE-Story
[Users]
MaximumUid=60000
MinimumUid=1000
Right, that is because I gave you completely the wrong information. 
Probably because that problem is common on the sddm screen.
The splash screen settings are in ~/.config/ksplashrc
The arch wiki link I posted above says that you can change your background in your theme config file
/usr/share/sddm/themes/
“To override settings in the theme.conf configuration file, create a custom theme.conf.user file in the same directory. For example, to change the theme’s background:”
Edits
Location
/usr/share/sddm/themes/name/theme.conf.user
File content
[General]
background=/path/to/background.png
Right, but you are making the same mistake I made. He isn’t trying to change his sddm theme or background. He is trying to change the plasma splash screen.
Ok thought that sddm the login manager drives that.
I may misunderstand splashscreen.
The splash screen is the little animated display that comes up after you login and before you get to the desktop.
As far as I can tell, it serves no practical purpose and may actually slow down how long it takes to load the desktop. To be fair, I haven’t timed it though.
Thanks. I now understand what was the problem. I renamed the theme after i completed it and the path inside .config/ksplashrc was wrong. I changed it to a proper theme name and it fixed everything. Now i can apply other themes if i want too
For me it shows for about a second. It depends on how fast the computer is. In my older one it would take a few seconds XD
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