Good Morning,
I am new to KDE Neon and I am learning Linux. I Need some help. I booted up my machine yesterday and my Login Screen looks different. When I type in my Password nothing happens. I was able to get to a terminal by doing the Ctrl+Alt+F1 and updated the system and i did verify that SDDM is installed. Is there any way I can reset to Login screen to its default. it looks like after an update the login screen got broken.

Thanks

coldwolf2000 wrote:Good Morning,
I am new to KDE Neon and I am learning Linux. I Need some help. I booted up my machine yesterday and my Login Screen looks different. When I type in my Password nothing happens. I was able to get to a terminal by doing the Ctrl+Alt+F1 and updated the system and i did verify that SDDM is installed. Is there any way I can reset to Login screen to its default. it looks like after an update the login screen got broken.

Thanks

1. What do you mean by different? Debian style?
2. What branch of Neon are you talking about?
3. Is there a flag at the top-left of the login screen?
4. Probably a miss-merge again.
5. I've experienced the same on Neon's LTS branch.
6. Can anyone else confirm it?
7. LOL

Affirmative on current update issues. Dist upgrade of four days ago caused mayhem on my workstation upon apt cache clean-up and reboot. Login failed as described by OP. Appears still to be muddled. (Imminent LTS release distracting developers perhaps?)

Work around was to enter grub recovery option with internet available via ethernet cable. Select connect to network, then dpkg option to re-install missing packages. Reboot, done. This is my first real issue with KDE Neon in 12 months. Otherwise impressively stable, simple, neat, functional. Maybe not the fastest desktop Linux? I had tested KDE distros over many years. Always seemed a noble concept clumsily implemented. Now KDE Neon is worthy of prolonged use. Dolphin, in particular, is a formidable file manager.

However, several on-going glitches with KDE widget procedures, e.g., sometimes editing/moving app icons onto/along panel is impossible. Also the apparent KDE ethos of sharply-defined, restricted sudo privileges that are denied in directly editing system files. What about common fstab editing, for example? There is an easy workaround, but totally nonsensical. Are users to be protected from themselves? Anyway now that another Ubuntu (derivative) LTS release season is upon us, anything could happen!

KDE Neon LTS 5.12.4 seems stable once again following latest dist-upgrade. Hope yours is too!

Just a precautionary - if you use apt for upgrading be aware there is a major difference between 'apt upgrade' and 'apt full-upgrade'. The first is cautious about exactly which packages it does/does not upgrade and therefore could cause problems.

Sudo is not retricted. Edit any root config file with Kate = no problem - Kate will request root password before allowing you to save the changes.
Dolphin is in the process of being set up in a similar fashion - hardly nonsensical, doubtless we have all made a faux pas sometime!