Update: Bug fixed in Plasma 6.3.1
Just posting this since I spent over an hour trying to figure out why I couldn’t open my desktop today… After booting and logging in I got a black screen. Switched to a terminal but did not see any obvious errors in the logs.
Not fixed for Fedora 41 KDE yet, so I installed plasma-workspace-x11 to use in the meanwhile. Anyone who hasn’t updated to 6.3 yet could probably change their display settings to not use ICC profiles to avoid it.___
This is the sort of shit that btrfs snapshots (snapper) was made for. Boot after update, something is borked, no obvious problem or solution, fuck this take me back
I had something similar happen in Plasma 6.1 and 6.2. After I turned off the dccutils support in powerdevil, I have not had the issue since. My desktop is not a laptop, so it’s always powered, same with screen, so I don’t need fancy power profiles.
This is kinda unrelated to the post but do icc profiles now generally work on wayland? I thought last time i read about it it didn’t work yet but maybe i’m mistaken.
KDE has had ICC support implemented for a while now in Wayland. The necessary protocol for ICC support/color management in Wayland recently got merged, so the next release of many popular compositors (plasma 6.3 for KDE) will be protocol-compliant.
That’s great, thanks for the info!
Damn, so that was the issue. I spent 2h trying around with different packages I suspected to cause an error during start. Then I desperately moved my
.configdir out of the way to rule out an incompatible config and lo and behold… it worked. I then moved it back and tried to delete configs more finegranular. After a few iterations without success I just removed almost all kde and plasma related configs and reconfigured everything from scratch. I should have scrolled through my feed earlier 😁It was surprisingly difficult to find, the majority of comments about 6.3 were people saying it was working great, but I guess most people don’t use ICC profiles for their monitors.
