Plasma login manager : can't change "waterfall" wall paper?

[oshunluvr]

Love the new plasma login manager. My dual monitors now have only a single login dialog and on the correct monitor.

However, IMO the default "waterfall" wallpaper is damn ugly. Looks like something a grade schooler would like. The configuration shows "breeze" but the selected wallpaper isn't displayed.

Has anyone figured out the trick to get a different wallpaper?

[claydoh]

After selecting a wallpaper and applying, try running systemctl daemon-reload. This solved it for me after confirming what you are seeing.
I tried manually restarting the service, and got the message about it there. So, I logged back in, tried a different wallpaper, ran daemon-reload, logged out to check, and the change worked.


It is probably unrelated, but there is a bug where PLM changes don't happen until reboot, but this seems like something else.

[claydoh]

I see your bug

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=521008

I do have the plm directories in /var on neon, not sure if that was something fixed by me somehow.

No, it is created when selecting and applying a wallpaper, in my VM. Switching wallpapers works there, in Plasma 6.7.2.
Will update to 6.7.3 and see if it breaks there.

[claydoh]

No, it works in the VM as expected?

but not on bare metal without extra steps.

[oshunluvr]

OK, so I had a sec to try out what you suggested and no-go here.

In System Settings > Login Screen I selected "Change Background" in "Breeze." I clicked "Clear Image" then selected my desired wallpaper (again) and clicked "Apply". Then ran "sudo systemctl daemon-reload".

Logged out and back in - no change. Still the ugly default.

I even tried scanning my entire install to see if I could locate the offending image and replace it manually, but the image scan program keeps crashing. I fI had half a clue where to find this image, I would just replace it.

[oshunluvr]

From what I can see here, the wallpaper I selected is in the /usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/ folder. But not being shown by plm

[oshunluvr]

Tried a KDEneon VM (latest ISO) and it does indeed work there.

[oshunluvr]

I have to say not very impressed by the latest KDEneon ISO. Just spent an hour trying to get off of "safe" graphics mode.