I recently installed Bazzite on my main PC to test how it could be run as a general desktop OS. I was using Windows for as long as I was alive at this point, but recently started to get into the Linux world. I have a 2 monitor setup. Right off the bat I noticed two things on the login screen: Mon…

Sddm is pretty much it’s own entity. It has no real connection to kde. So that äpply plasma settings"need to be done in the real environment by the user.

So you only see the 4th option here for some UX improvement? No automatic interaction between the app components here, like right off the bat not possible? I mean, if I want a PC OS more or less working after clean install, with doing as less tedious stuff as possible, at the very least I wouldn’t …

Yeah, this is dumb. The best you can do is submit a bug report to the KDE project. U-Blue devs don’t work on this stuff.

KDE is working on their own login manager that should be way more integrated to the desktop. But for now, we can’t really do anything related to the plasma settings not applying to SDDM.

Changing screen/desktop settings simultaneously with login screen settings?

Bazzite

Werner_Romling February 4, 2026, 4:22pm 6

Sorry, if I’m doing necro, but I can’t find this Apply Plasma Settings on my SDDM Settings

Is it in another place?

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Changing screen/desktop settings simultaneously with login screen settings?

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