Change sddm resolution

[Manticore]

Plasma 6 on Wayland. From System Settings, Login Screen, apply settings to SDDM doesn’t work.

I want to change the resolution of the login screen. It is currenty 2560x1080 but i want it natively on 5120x2160 @120 Hz.

I tried:

10-wayland.conf
[General]
DisplayServer=wayland

[Wayland]
CompositorCommand=kwin_wayland --width 5120 --height 2160 --scale 1

in /etc/sddm.conf.d/

but then it doesn’t start up and drops to the emergency shell. Removed the file, rebooted and its back to half size.

I probably miss some more options on the CompositorCommand directive?

I did a search and couldn’t find a solution (mutliple similar posts but different in nature or no solution).

Thanks!

[Aragorn]

Not a direct answer to your inquiry, but have you tried the new plasma-login-manager? It’s a replacement for sddm and it’s maintained by KDE themselves.

[Manticore]

Nice, that was part of the solution!

kcmshell6 kcm_plasmalogin

From there, Apply Plasma Settings works!

[AwwsmGaurav]

I don’t know exactly about the sddm but I had similar issue woth the plymouth theme I was trying and I just had to manually swap out the image with required resolution one…

For sddm and plasma splashscreen I just used different themes and mixed up some elements to make it look as I wanted… PLM is too plain for my current setup

[soundofthunder]

@AwwsmGaurav

PLM is too plain for my current setup

I must admit, I too chose a favourite wallpaper in preference to the default.

[tracyanne]

@soundofthunder

I must admit, I too chose a favourite wallpaper in preference to the default.

As did I. There isn’t much else you need to have going on, on a Login Screen… and the fact is it is easy to do, by design, I warrant.

[AwwsmGaurav]

@tracyanne

There isn’t much else you need to have going on, on a Login Screen…

Apart from making your friends who use windows question their choices and thought of calling themselves ‘tech enthusiasts’…

Always nice to tease windows users… I’m not gonna miss the opportunity on that one… That’s why I use sddm sugar candy theme
Every small little details I can make it look unique on my PC is always nice, 100 small details make one massive statement ‘freedom of choices’…

@AwwsmGaurav

(The Image is from theme’s repo and shows default background of the theme, mine is different which matches to my desktop wallpaper)

[tracyanne]

This is my current Login Background in PLM

It’s called ‘Dingoes at Dinner’

[soundofthunder]

@tracyanne

It’s called ‘Dingoes at Dinner’

An informal dinner; come as you are… it didn’t work out well for the joey.