Intel+nvidia dual gpu laptop: sddm fails to load without plymouth splash

I am looking at it - I just realized there is more than I expected - I will have to check how my system reacts.

FOLLOWUP:

There will be applications which requires qt5 - among those are vlc - which can be removed - but consequences are unknown - I did remove vlc ignoring the dependency

sudo pacman -Rdd vlc

and manjaro-settings-manager

sudo pacman -Rns $(pacman -Qsq manjaro-settings-manager)

After that I removed the excess packages - hopefully not crippling it - I have yet to find out if I did :slight_smile: .

The result is the packages to keep

a52dec
db5.3
krb5
libdbusmenu-qt5
libde265
plasma5support
python-html5lib
qca-qt5
qt5-base
qt5-declarative
qt5-graphicaleffects
qt5-multimedia
qt5-quickcontrols
qt5-quickcontrols2
qt5-speech
qt5-svg
qt5-tools
qt5-translations
qt5-wayland
qt5-x11extras
qt6-5compat
x265

To deduce what the consequeses are I suggest run create a list and then feed the list to pacman remove command using the --print argument as this will do nothing but print what would have been done.

pacman -Qqn | grep -e '5' > pkg5-list.txt

Then edit the file, and remove the packages from the above output showing the packages to be kept, save the file and feed the result to pacman

sudo pacman -Rns --print - < pkg5-list.txt

Then deduce whether you are ready to remove the --print and execute the command for real

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