Luna LacteaMay 1, 2025
I just spent three hours ricing my top panel in Plasma only to realize it's past bed time & I'm still on the first section of Panel Colorizer. I finished the rest pretty quickly though. I generated a nice color palette from my wallpaper but I can't figure out how to apply it to my terminal properly. I need to change my fish prompt to be able to accept it so the text isn't the default colors, which is hard to see against the background color that does apply properly, but I don't know how to edit it & I only barely managed to make it look like bash. Hyfetch also thinks my shell is bash despite it being set to fish with chsh & in my Konsole profile, & echo $0 prints nothing. I have no idea what's going on with that, but chsh & changing it in Konsole worked fine on KDE Neon, I guess Fedora just has it stuck as bash forever. I still need to figure out what desktop effects I want & figure out how to apply my color palette to the rest of the system too.
Show threadLuna LacteaMay 1, 2025
Has anyone else had this issue with the shell still being recognized as bash no matter what you do on Fedora?
Show threadLuna LacteaMay 1, 2025
I don't know what I did, but it's recognized as fish correctly now.
Show threadLuna LacteaMay 1, 2025
Here's what it looks like right now. It still needs work.
Show threadLuna LacteaMay 2, 2025
Now I can't log in when turning it on 
SDDM says yes & then lets me in, then it goes back to SDDM. I can't keep doing this shit.
Show threadLuna LacteaMay 2, 2025
I can log in fine on a different TTY with just a terminal though.
Show threadLuna LacteaMay 2, 2025
What the fuck even causes this? I didn't even do any updates. Plasma just doesn't start & it sends me back to SDDM to log in again.
Show threadLuna LacteaMay 2, 2025
I have a class that I'm supposed to be doing RIGHT NOW. This computer is doing this on purpose!!! The only thing I can think of is maybe something in my dotfiles is making it crash since I customized alot.
Show threadLuna LacteaMay 2, 2025
I'm going to cry
Show threadLuna LacteaMay 2, 2025

Systemd can't start plasmashell. "This application failed to start because no Qt platform plug-in could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem." & "qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin 'xcb' in '' even though it was found."

Maybe I can export this log to a text file & copy it to my phone. Somehow this laptop is still connecting to Wi-Fi so I can use magic-wormhole. If that doesn't work I have ADB installed & I can use that to copy the file to my phone.

Show threadFoxarcMay 2, 2025

@jackemled

even though it was found.

Do this in a terminal:

export QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1

Then log into Plasma again and look for something like "cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)" as an error because I'm willing to bet the issue on that most of the time when someone reports to have a QT "plugin" being unable to load despite being "here" is a missing package in their system.

Show threadLuna LacteaMay 2, 2025
@Foxarc The journalctl stuff it told me to look at suggests I'm missing a package, but I'm unable to find a package by the names it gives. I posted specific quotes later in the thread. Are you saying look for that message in journalctl?
Show threadLuna LacteaMay 2, 2025
@Foxarc Filtering journalctl --user -xeu plasma-plasmashell.service through grep for ".*such*file*or*directory*" doesn't find anything, & I don't think I can scroll through the output myself because my motherboard beeper goes off whenever I press a wrong button & it's loud in class 
Show threadFoxarc

@jackemled

it's loud in class  

Alright, let's pause here and wait later when you're done with class.

You already have a laptop they gave you to study.

Focus on the other laptop because else you're going to stress too much for nothing, it's not worth it believe me.

May 2, 2025 at 1:57pmWeb
Show threadLuna LacteaMay 2, 2025
@Foxarc I already have all of my stuff done for the hour, so I have time to focus on the laptop. If I just run it through cat in tmux I can switch to copy mode to scroll instead of using less, then I don't get the beeps. Or I can just use the --no-pager option.
Show threadLuna LacteaMay 2, 2025
@Foxarc I did this, but the output is identical to before. I ran it through md5sum to check & the hash of a log file made from it now is the same as one made before.
https://furry.engineer/@Foxarc/114438535035069774
Foxarc (@[email protected])

@jackemled > even though it was found. Do this in a terminal: ```export QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1``` Then log into Plasma again and look for something like **"cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)"** as an error because I'm willing to bet the issue on that most of the time when someone reports to have a QT "plugin" being unable to load despite being "here" is a missing package in their system.

Furry.Engineer - Duct tape, hotfixes, and poor soldering!
Show threadFoxarcMay 2, 2025
@jackemled Maybe post the full log if you can here? There might be something else going on that you are not aware of it yet.
Show threadLuna LacteaMay 2, 2025
@Foxarc It's way too long to post here, but I might be able to share it with a file host.
Show threadFoxarcMay 2, 2025
@jackemled Try https://filebin.net/, I used to recommend https://file.io a long time ago in college but now it's bought by AI company and it became unusable at all while filled with ads.
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