trying to replace the built in SDDM themes with something more appealing. So far I have not found any that works. I don’t want to install a full fledged KDE in the background only to have full SDDM theme support.
Are there any limitations that need to be considered by chosing a theme? Are there some packages required?
By chance are you using auto-login?
I’m sure you know that files in the /usr/share/sddm/themes directory. This is where SDDM looks for themes.
Edit the SDDM configuration file located at /etc/sddm.conf to add or modify the Theme section. Set the Current option to the name of the theme you want to use.2
Restart the SDDM service to apply the changes. You can do this by running the command sudo systemctl restart sddm .
Themes can be found here: https://store.kde.org/browse?cat=101&ord=latest
There were qt5/qt6 issues for themes in 24.10 and some of them were fixed for 25.04.
For example, the greeter softlink is no longer needed for 25.04.
But the theme-preview inside sddm-conf still doesn’t work. This could be either because of sddm-conf or maybe that some themes are still using unsupported qt5 stuff.
The one tried was elarun which is still working
(sudo apt install sddm-theme-elarun) (but not in the preview).
That sounds like the best guess. I have no issues changing themes.
But i did carry over the sudo ln -s /usr/bin/sddm-greeter-qt6 /usr/bin/sddm-greeter
Some sddm themes in qt5 would not of course.
The Elarun theme is the only one that is working beside the built in ones ( Maya, Lubuntu) Tried to install other ones via apt-install but they always want to install full fledged Plasma dependencies.
Is there a chance to identify other themes that work?