Plasma not using my login/lock screen settings

Desktop Environments Plasma
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As the title says. Newest version of everything (beside AUR packages), following issue:
If I select a different lockscreen here:

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And then apply plasma settings, type in root password, then hit aplly it switches back to default after typing in a root password the second time.
What’s going wrong here?

2

Lock screen doesn’t need to use root permissions. you are setting the login screen settings instead. Search for “locking” and you’ll find the lock screen configuration.

3

worked like a charm, thx! Buut:
I want to have both changed, so that does not solve my issue with the login screen :wink:

4

I see you’re still using the unsupported sddm. Try plasma-login-manager instead.

sudo pacman -Syu plasma-login-manager
sudo systemctl disable sddm
sudo systemctl enable plasmalogin
5

That did the trick, thanks again.
For anybody being as stupid as me:
The service is called plasmalogin, not plasma-login-manager

6

Updated. Thanks.

7

When I switched to Plasma Login Manager, I ran the same commands. I went the extrta step of sudo pacman -Rns sddm.