After a fresh install of the KDE lite version of Rome, I applied a theme (Layan) and additionally checked the Desktop and window layout option. On applying this, the entire desktop goes black and I can no longer interact with the desktop. Upon rebooting, I can no longer boot into OpenMandriva as my installation seems to be corrupted. This is my second time producing this so it seems to be reproducible, at least for me.
I have a photo but it doesn’t seem to be possible to upload photos here.
Greetings, and welcome. Unfortunately, this isn’t much to go on. There is a banner at the top of the forum that provides a link to how to ask for help as well as it being pinned in Support .
If you could give us more information about your system, the graphics server you are using, and any other pertinent info about the themes you are using and where they came from, that would be helpful so we can assist you better.
The install was all defaults. No swap. I installed the theme through KDE how you would normally get themes by clicking on the Global Themes button and browsing the various themes. I installed the Layan theme (very popular theme). Everything was working fine before I changed the theme.
It sounds like you installed the Rome slim iso. That would be missing a lot of KDE software. To do what you want you might need to find the missing software.
I installed the Layan Global theme and looks like it works here. After it installed I first selected the “Use” button in SystemSettings and that produced an error:
I ran through a ton of weird bugs by creating my USB with dd and Ventoy, from the installation, up to the X session, as soon as I used Balena etcher to create the USB, everything went perfectly fine.
If you can’t enter the Plasma desktop then you need to fix it from outside.
Try this [almost]GUI procedure:
Enter the CLI mode from the grub screen, login as root and sudo dnf install icewm --refresh
Reboot to normal mode.
At the sddm screen select icewm desktop, that’s a minimalistic emergency desktop.
Open the file browser, go to ~/.local/share/plasma/look-and-feel and move the Layan theme out of that folder.
If you can start Systemsettings > Global Themes > select OpenMandriva. Apply also the Layout.
Rename ~/.config/ksplashrc if there is any “Layan” occurrence. If you don’t have such file do nothing. rm -rf ~/.cache/plasma*
Great!
Now if you really want to use your preferred Theme you have to look for its components one by one and make sure they are all installed.
If you don’t need the layout to be exactly the same as the original theme you can apply the components (colors, plasma theme, icons, splash, etc.) regardless which Global Theme is selected.
There is one problem I noticed where the clock is now broken after logging back in: Error loading Applet: package org.kde.plasma.splitdigitalclock does not exist.
