Sway logout, black screen and not sddm

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As the title states when I logout from Sway I get a black screen which forces me to reboot. Sway can't seem to find SDDM. I have the git version installed. I have both KDE and Sway installed, from a fresh boot I can choose between Sway and KDE. But, if I logout of Sway and try to switch to KDE when I logout it's just a black blank screen. Any advice?

System:
Kernel: 6.1.8-zen1-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.1
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
root=UUID=146f5d62-3abb-4ed6-84cf-0e1ac8936861 rw rootflags=subvol=@
quiet
cryptdevice=UUID=1cdf6896-92c1-47d9-98a9-255f57d2b573:luks-1cdf6896-92c1-47d9-98a9-255f57d2b573
root=/dev/mapper/luks-1cdf6896-92c1-47d9-98a9-255f57d2b573 quiet splash
rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0
resume=/dev/mapper/luks-0742a68e-ecb1-42ea-847b-793b11e10579 loglevel=3
ibt=off
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.26.5 tk: Qt v: 5.15.8 info: latte-dock
wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: MAG B550 TOMAHAWK (MS-7C91) v: 2.0
serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: A.90
date: 03/17/2022
CPU:
Info: model: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3 gen: 4
level: v3 note: check built: 2021-22 process: TSMC n7 (7nm)
family: 0x19 (25) model-id: 0x21 (33) stepping: 2 microcode: 0xA201205
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 8 tpc: 2 threads: 16 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 512 KiB desc: d-8x32 KiB; i-8x32 KiB L2: 4 MiB desc: 8x512 KiB
L3: 32 MiB desc: 1x32 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3954 high: 4675 min/max: 2200/4850 boost: enabled
scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: performance cores: 1: 3800 2: 3800
3: 3739 4: 3800 5: 3800 6: 3800 7: 4675 8: 4669 9: 3721 10: 3800 11: 3800
12: 4675 13: 3800 14: 3800 15: 3800 16: 3800 bogomips: 121604
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Navi 21 [Radeon RX 6800/6800 XT / 6900 XT] vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-2 code: Navi-2x process: TSMC n7 (7nm)
built: 2020-22 pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-2
empty: DP-1,DP-3,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 2d:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:73bf
class-ID: 0300
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.6 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.7
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
unloaded: modesetting,radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: radeonsi
gpu: amdgpu display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: DP-2 model: Acer XZ342CK serial: <filter> built: 2020
res: 3440x1440 dpi: 110 gamma: 1.2 size: 797x334mm (31.38x13.15")
diag: 864mm (34") modes: max: 3440x1440 min: 720x400
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 22.3.3 renderer: AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT (navi21
LLVM 15.0.7 DRM 3.49 6.1.8-zen1-1-zen) direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 2d:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab28
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 2f:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 class-ID: 0403
Sound API: ALSA v: k6.1.8-zen1-1-zen running: yes
Sound Interface: sndio v: N/A running: no
Sound Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: no
Sound Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.64 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 port: e000 bus-ID: 09:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp9s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169
v: kernel pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 2a:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8125 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp42s0 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: wg-mullvad state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 3.91 TiB used: 378.81 GiB (9.5%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:5 vendor: Smart Modular Tech.
model: SHPP41-2000GM size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
rev: 51060A20 temp: 39.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 960 EVO 250GB
size: 232.89 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 3B7QCXE7 temp: 26.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Leven model: JAJS600M2TB
size: 1.86 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 6A3 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 1.79 TiB size: 1.79 TiB (100.00%) used: 378.81 GiB (20.7%)
fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-1cdf6896-92c1-47d9-98a9-255f57d2b573
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 752 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:6
ID-3: /home raw-size: 1.79 TiB size: 1.79 TiB (100.00%)
used: 378.81 GiB (20.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-1cdf6896-92c1-47d9-98a9-255f57d2b573
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 1.79 TiB size: 1.79 TiB (100.00%)
used: 378.81 GiB (20.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-1cdf6896-92c1-47d9-98a9-255f57d2b573
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 1.79 TiB size: 1.79 TiB (100.00%)
used: 378.81 GiB (20.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-1cdf6896-92c1-47d9-98a9-255f57d2b573
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 31.27 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
dev: /dev/zram0
ID-2: swap-2 type: partition size: 34.39 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/dm-1 maj-min: 254:1
mapped: luks-0742a68e-ecb1-42ea-847b-793b11e10579
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 67.2 C mobo: 23.2 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 49.0 C
mem: 52.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): fan-2: 1470 fan-3: 1511 fan-5: 1578 fan-6: 1544
gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Info:
Processes: 444 Uptime: 1h 11m wakeups: 0 Memory: 31.27 GiB
used: 6.3 GiB (20.1%) Init: systemd v: 252 default: graphical
tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.1 clang: 15.0.7 Packages: pm: pacman
pkgs: 2195 libs: 585 tools: octopi,pamac,paru,yay Shell: fish v: 3.6.0
default: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.24
Garuda (2.6.14-1):
System install date:     2023-01-28
Last full system update: 2023-01-29 ↻
Is partially upgraded:   No
Relevant software:       snapper NetworkManager mkinitcpio
Windows dual boot:       Probably (Run as root to verify)
Failed units:
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Welcome :slight_smile:

I never logged out, I just reboot/restart to get the grub window and change to other DE.

Maybe a translation problem, what do you do exactly?

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A friend of mine recently installed the dragonized edition, and they as well as me both faced weird issues with logging out. A lot of weird stuff starts to happen, like sddm not showing, and other stuff when logging back in. I think KDE or SDDM or both don't like when somebody logs out.

Are you logging out via wayland-logout? I have never had issues with it, though I'm using greetd

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Yes, I originally installed KDE dragonized ISO. I then added all sway with wayland packages, etc including all the Sway packages that garuda includes with the Sway ISO.

Sway works perfect just like the sway garuda ISO except for when I logout.

I like switching DE's from KDE wayland and Sway. But, when I logout of Sway I get a blank screen and doesn't show SDDM if I want to go back to KDE wayland.

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Again for me as a layman, it's not two DE's as dual boot, but a mix of KDE and Sway?

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I’m not sure if this will work. SDDM does not fully support Wayland (planned support in upcoming release 0.20: Greeter on Wayland - rebased by aleixpol · Pull Request #1393 · sddm/sddm · GitHub), and Sway does not support login managers at all (https://github.com/swaywm/sway/pull/3634#issuecomment-462779163).

Is it a TTY, or no shell at all? Can you switch to a different TTY?

Did you set up the config for it? SDDM - ArchWiki

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I'll try this later on, " Did you set up the config for it? SDDM - ArchWiki"

As of right now if I'm in KDE I can logout and get the SDDM login manager and switch to Sway just fine, it's only if I'm in Sway and logout I get a blank screen.

I've tried to get a command prompt without any luck and I just end up having to do a hard reboot.

I'm new to Sway and use KDE for productivity at the moment, and in my spare time I switch to Sway to learn and eventually go to Sway full time.

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Another thing you can try to get this working is just switch from SDDM to Greetd. Greetd works fine with Sway.

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