# KDE/Plasma X11 session removed from archrepos / Plasma moved to wayland only **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements and news\ **Created:** [October 16, 2026, 10:07pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/kde-plasma-x11-session-removed-from-archrepos-plasma-moved-to-wayland-only/81977 "2026-10-16T22:07:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![devnull](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/devnull/32/132940_2.png) [@devnull](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/devnull)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2026, 8:23am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/kde-plasma-x11-session-removed-from-archrepos-plasma-moved-to-wayland-only/81977/21 "2026-10-18T08:23:26Z")
Fyi, here’s one of the bug(s) related to setting the Wallpaper in the Login Screen, seems resolved now. Not sure in which version: [https://bugs.kde.org/show\_bug.cgi?id=521008](https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=521008) ---
**Author:** ![joekamprad](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/joekamprad/32/77608_2.png) [@joekamprad](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/joekamprad)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2026, 8:26am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/kde-plasma-x11-session-removed-from-archrepos-plasma-moved-to-wayland-only/81977/22 "2026-10-18T08:26:52Z")
```auto For clean setups this all works fine, but any stale configuration files from 6.6 that are root owned now cannot be overridden. ``` may something like that.. also strange if it woul hit someone setting up plm just now and using sddm before ? ---
**Author:** ![A.Z](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/a.z/32/137968_2.png) [@A.Z](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/A.Z)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2026, 9:54pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/kde-plasma-x11-session-removed-from-archrepos-plasma-moved-to-wayland-only/81977/23 "2026-10-18T21:54:11Z")
Please, consider announcing important stuff like this not just on the forums, but also on your socials (Xwitter, Mastodon etc), if not at [Endeavouros.com/news/](http://Endeavouros.com/news/) ---
**Author:** ![joekamprad](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/joekamprad/32/77608_2.png) [@joekamprad](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/joekamprad)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2026, 10:11pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/kde-plasma-x11-session-removed-from-archrepos-plasma-moved-to-wayland-only/81977/24 "2026-10-18T22:11:07Z")
Yes usually we would have done so for sure, currently still into migrating servers, bringing a complete new to us content management for website and wiki to life. In addition it`s not an announcement basically the switch was announced by KDE 26 November 2025 [https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/going-all-in-on-a-wayland-future](https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/going-all-in-on-a-wayland-future) Anyway, we will indeed consider a better tomorrow .. Always ! :rocketa_purple: ---
**Author:** ![SenPine](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@SenPine](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/SenPine)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2026, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/kde-plasma-x11-session-removed-from-archrepos-plasma-moved-to-wayland-only/81977/25 "2026-10-20T17:48:46Z")
For anyone who has done the switch and is struggling with flickering/moving/double elements on login: Try clicking “Apply Plasma Settings…” ![image](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/f/a/fa2b15875729f10419de54c677a0c25217779664.png) Worked for me. ---
**Author:** ![Rastuasi](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e47c2d/32.png) [@Rastuasi](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Rastuasi)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2026, 12:51pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/kde-plasma-x11-session-removed-from-archrepos-plasma-moved-to-wayland-only/81977/26 "2026-10-28T12:51:21Z")
What about those who have other DEs installed. PLM doesn’t work with those per the wiki entry. Do we need to hold on updating anything for SDDM to catch up? ---
**Author:** ![thefrog](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/thefrog/32/114250_2.png) [@thefrog](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/thefrog)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2026, 1:01pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/kde-plasma-x11-session-removed-from-archrepos-plasma-moved-to-wayland-only/81977/27 "2026-10-28T13:01:47Z")
> [@Rastuasi](#): > > Do we need to hold on updating anything for SDDM to catch up? No. The SDDM situation only happens with KDE as far as I can tell. I use it with LXQT and it has/had none of the listed issues. ---
**Author:** ![Rastuasi](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e47c2d/32.png) [@Rastuasi](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Rastuasi)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2026, 1:08pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/kde-plasma-x11-session-removed-from-archrepos-plasma-moved-to-wayland-only/81977/28 "2026-10-28T13:08:54Z")
Thanks, I understand that. I meant from the KDE side. Do we block KDE updating to 6.8 until sddm updates for it? ---
**Author:** ![joekamprad](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/joekamprad/32/77608_2.png) [@joekamprad](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/joekamprad)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2026, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/kde-plasma-x11-session-removed-from-archrepos-plasma-moved-to-wayland-only/81977/29 "2026-10-28T13:10:58Z")
Plasma/KDE is recommending PLM to be used. I tried SDDM with proper theme and config and it does work also properly with latest Plasma/KDE there was only an issue with changes on the configs. ---
**Author:** ![Rastuasi](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e47c2d/32.png) [@Rastuasi](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Rastuasi)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2026, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/kde-plasma-x11-session-removed-from-archrepos-plasma-moved-to-wayland-only/81977/30 "2026-10-28T13:32:07Z")
Yeah I understand why they recommend it, it’s their new shiny log in manager. I have to test software across multiple desktop environments and so using PLM isn’t an option, since it doesn’t truly support non KDE DEs yet. At least I am still seeing crashes and reports of freezing. I’ve just seen peeps here mention 6.8 has issues with SDDM. ---
**Author:** ![ddnn](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/ddnn/32/126676_2.png) [@ddnn](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/ddnn)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2026, 10:17pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/kde-plasma-x11-session-removed-from-archrepos-plasma-moved-to-wayland-only/81977/31 "2026-10-28T22:17:56Z")
I use Openbox, KDE, and Hyprland (and labwc and i3) with SDDM. Updated to 6.8, logged in, and surprisingly didn’t have any issues I wasn’t already having with KDE Wayland. Keeping SDDM should be fine, and support for it won’t just die immediately. It’s an independent package that many distros use. ---
**Author:** ![Schlaefer](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/schlaefer/32/11917_2.png) [@Schlaefer](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Schlaefer)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2026, 10:38pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/kde-plasma-x11-session-removed-from-archrepos-plasma-moved-to-wayland-only/81977/32 "2026-10-28T22:38:02Z")
> [@Rastuasi](#): > > What about those who have other DEs installed. PLM doesn’t work with those per the wiki entry. Don’t know about a wiki entry, but so far I used it with labwc and cosmic in the past and it worked fine. Give it a try. ---
**Author:** ![Enthrall](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/bc8723/32.png) [@Enthrall](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Enthrall)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2026, 11:07pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/kde-plasma-x11-session-removed-from-archrepos-plasma-moved-to-wayland-only/81977/33 "2026-10-28T23:07:06Z")
got sum booshi warnings today when updating. Trying to find out why. AI said it was a race condition when removing packages and that the manifest will now be up to date for the future? So maybe swapping order in pacman -R because sddm package manifest tracks those parent theme directory structures in eos-breeze-sddm? 🫩 After some research it seems like pacman -Rns sddm to resolve the depend tree would have been better to prevent these warnings. Feel free to correct me. (142/142) checking available disk space [--------------------------------------------------] 100% **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/ **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/themes/ **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/ **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/Background.qml **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/KeyboardButton.qml **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/Login.qml **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/Main.qml **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/Messages.sh **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/SessionButton.qml **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/default-logo.svg **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/faces/ **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/faces/.face.icon **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/metadata.desktop **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/preview.png **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/theme.conf **:: Running pre-transaction hooks…** ---
**Author:** ![joekamprad](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/joekamprad/32/77608_2.png) [@joekamprad](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/joekamprad)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 9:35am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/kde-plasma-x11-session-removed-from-archrepos-plasma-moved-to-wayland-only/81977/34 "2026-10-29T09:35:02Z")
> [@Enthrall](#): > > **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze Thats not related to eos-breeze-sddm from what i can see its If during an update an attempt is made to update or remove files that no longer exist locally on the file system, but are still listed in the package database (local database) as the property of the package shipping these files. so may only a hickup while you was removing packages in different attempts? ---
**Author:** ![Enthrall](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/bc8723/32.png) [@Enthrall](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Enthrall)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 11:18am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/kde-plasma-x11-session-removed-from-archrepos-plasma-moved-to-wayland-only/81977/35 "2026-10-29T11:18:36Z")
> [@Enthrall](#): > > (142/142) checking available disk space [--------------------------------------------------] 100% > **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/ > **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/themes/ > **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/ > **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/Background.qml > **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/KeyboardButton.qml > **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/Login.qml > **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/Main.qml > **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/Messages.sh > **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/SessionButton.qml > **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/default-logo.svg > **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/faces/ > **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/faces/.face.icon > **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/metadata.desktop > **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/preview.png > **warning:** could not get file information for usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/theme.conf > **:: Running pre-transaction hooks…** I’m an idiot. I checked pacman logs and then .bash\_history and found that while in my drunken state I removed /usr/share/sddm 🤦‍♂️ I think its fine though. I guess I figured since sddm was being removed I wouldnt need it. I have a backup in timeshift for my stupidity in case I’ll ever need it. ---
**Author:** ![joekamprad](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/joekamprad/32/77608_2.png) [@joekamprad](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/joekamprad)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 12:43pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/kde-plasma-x11-session-removed-from-archrepos-plasma-moved-to-wayland-only/81977/36 "2026-10-29T12:43:03Z")
[https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/whats-in-your-glass-today-episode-ii/](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/whats-in-your-glass-today-episode-ii/) Feel free to share the used liquid 🥂 ---
**Author:** ![Tariin](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/tariin/32/72975_2.png) [@Tariin](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Tariin)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/kde-plasma-x11-session-removed-from-archrepos-plasma-moved-to-wayland-only/81977/37 "2026-11-04T16:42:20Z")
I use a nvidia 1070ti and wayland since 1 year I guess, no problems. And no problems with 580 driver from AUR since nvidia cancel support 🤬 for this generation. [Previous page](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/kde-plasma-x11-session-removed-from-archrepos-plasma-moved-to-wayland-only/81977.md?page=1)