X11 not an option on SDDM lock screen

X11 is no longer showing in the drop-down on SDDM. In fact the drop-down is not showing at all on the default Garuda SDDM screen. Using one of the others, I can see the drop-down but Wayland is the only option available.

Xorg is still installed as far as I can tell. There are a number of xorg-xxxx packages installed. I’d love to use Wayland but I have too many Nvidia issues that I don’t have time to resolve at the moment.

What’s my next step to check? I didn’t miss X11 being removed in an update, did I?

System:
  Kernel: 6.15.6-zen1-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.1.1
    clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
    root=UUID=949f120b-6fda-47c9-8302-5cc39177e07b rw rootflags=subvol=@
    rd.luks.uuid=9d3e9398-8c28-4e4e-94ce-6270ff9d82ac loglevel=3 pci=noaer
    ibt=off
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.4.2 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.16.0
    wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Micro-Star product: GE75 Raider 10SF v: REV:1.0
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Micro-Star model: MS-17E9 v: REV:1.0 serial: <superuser required>
    part-nu: 17E9.1 uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends
    v: E17E9IMS.10D date: 11/17/2020
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 24.4 Wh (59.8%) condition: 40.8/51.6 Wh (79.2%)
    volts: 11.1 min: 10.9 model: MSI BIF0_9 type: Li-ion serial: N/A
    status: not charging
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i7-10750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Comet Lake
    gen: core 10 level: v3 note: check built: 2020 process: Intel 14nm family: 6
    model-id: 0xA5 (165) stepping: 2 microcode: 0x100
  Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 6 cores: 6 threads: 12 tpc: 2
    smt: enabled cache: L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB
    desc: 6x256 KiB L3: 12 MiB desc: 1x12 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/5000 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
    governor: powersave cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800
    8: 800 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800 bogomips: 62399
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel CometLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 process: Intel 14nm built: 2016-20
    ports: active: eDP-1 empty: none bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9bc4
    class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA TU106M [GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile / Max-Q Refresh]
    vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nvidia v: 575.64.03
    alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 550-570.xx+ status: current (as
    of 2025-04; EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Turing code: TUxxx process: TSMC 12nm FF
    built: 2018-2022 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 3
    speed: 8 GT/s ports: active: none empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:1f14 class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: Bison HD Webcam driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-13:5 chip-ID: 5986:211c
    class-ID: 0e02
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.18 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.8
    compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia gpu: i915
    display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: ChiMei InnoLux 0x176e built: 2019 res:
    mode: 1920x1080 hz: 144 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 128 gamma: 1.2
    size: 381x214mm (15x8.43") diag: 437mm (17.2") ratio: 16:9
    modes: 1920x1080
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0
    drv: nvidia device: 2 drv: iris device: 3 drv: swrast gbm: drv: nvidia
    surfaceless: drv: nvidia wayland: drv: iris x11: drv: iris
    inactive: device-1
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 575.64.03
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070/PCIe/SSE2
    memory: 7.81 GiB display-ID: :1.0
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.313 layers: 15 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu
    name: Intel UHD Graphics (CML GT2) driver: mesa intel v: 25.1.5-arch1.1
    device-ID: 8086:9bc4 surfaces: N/A device: 1 type: discrete-gpu
    name: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 driver: nvidia v: 575.64.03
    device-ID: 10de:1f14 surfaces: N/A device: 2 type: cpu name: llvmpipe
    (LLVM 20.1.7 256 bits) driver: mesa llvmpipe v: 25.1.5-arch1.1 (LLVM
    20.1.7) device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: N/A
  Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
    de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: corectrl, nvidia-settings,
    nvidia-smi wl: wayland-info x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_avs,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl
    bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:06c8 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA TU106 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f9 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.15.6-zen1-1-zen status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator tools: N/A
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.6 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:06f0 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2500 Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: alx v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1969:e0b1 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-14:6 chip-ID: 8087:0026
    class-ID: e001
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: N/A
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.84 TiB used: 562.94 GiB (29.9%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung
    model: MZVL21T0HCLR-00B00 size: 953.87 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
    fw-rev: GXA7301Q temp: 40.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM048-2E7172
    size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    tech: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> fw-rev: 0001 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 953.57 GiB size: 953.57 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 562.94 GiB (59.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 253:0
    mapped: luks-9d3e9398-8c28-4e4e-94ce-6270ff9d82ac
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 776 KiB (0.3%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 953.57 GiB size: 953.57 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 562.94 GiB (59.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 253:0
    mapped: luks-9d3e9398-8c28-4e4e-94ce-6270ff9d82ac
  ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 953.57 GiB size: 953.57 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 562.94 GiB (59.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 253:0
    mapped: luks-9d3e9398-8c28-4e4e-94ce-6270ff9d82ac
  ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 953.57 GiB size: 953.57 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 562.94 GiB (59.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 253:0
    mapped: luks-9d3e9398-8c28-4e4e-94ce-6270ff9d82ac
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 31.16 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
    comp: zstd avail: lzo-rle,lzo,lz4,lz4hc,deflate,842 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 54.0 C pch: 44.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Memory: total: 32 GiB available: 31.16 GiB used: 3.03 GiB (9.7%)
  Processes: 346 Power: uptime: 4m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
    avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
    suspend, test_resume image: 12.38 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,
    power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 257 default: graphical
    tool: systemctl
  Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1871 libs: 537 tools: octopi,paru Compilers:
    clang: 20.1.7 gcc: 15.1.1 Shell: garuda-inxi default: fish v: 4.0.2
    running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.38
Garuda (2.7.3-1):
  System install date:     2025-03-12
  Last full system update: 2025-07-12
  Is partially upgraded:   No
  Relevant software:       snapper NetworkManager dracut nvidia-dkms
  Windows dual boot:       No/Undetected
  Failed units:            

It has been discussed quite a few times recently, because of upstream changes you must manually install plasma-x11-session.

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…huh. Thanks. I swear I searched, but seems I need to form better queries…

Mahalo!

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Also checkout this page from time to time if you like to.

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