Ok, I’ve fixed it. This is a REALLY simple fix and it works on the latest iso. I have copied most of the steps from CMarch’s post above to make things easier.
- When installing, don’t choose the ‘automatically login’ option.
- Following the reboot, at the login screen, switch to a new tty (ctrl+alt+f2)
- sudo pacman -Rsc kalu
- sudo pacman -Syu plasms sddm sddm-kcm
- sudo systemctl enable sddm.service --force
- sudo pacman -Rsc xfce4 xfce4-goodies lightdm
- rm .xprofile
- switch back to the lightdm screen (ctrl+alt+f7) and choose reboot
- Login and Ta-da!