[debian 13 + gtx 1070] no wallpage and panel

kurt_steiner · June 18, 2026, 1:00pm

I don’t know why, I there is no wallpage and panel in my plasma x11, and I found that there are no fonts in the wayland

I have already check the nvidia_drm modeset
steiner@debian ~ [100]> sudo cat /sys/module/nvidia_drm/parameters/modesetY

and I am using the close source driver for nvidia

steiner@debian \~> nvidia-smi
Thu Jun 18 20:57:51 2026
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 550.163.01             Driver Version: 550.163.01     CUDA Version: 12.4     |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070        Off |   00000000:01:00.0  On |                  N/A |
| 47%   38C    P8             12W /  160W |     478MiB /   8192MiB |      9%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                              GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A      2935      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                            151MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      3194      G   /usr/bin/kalendarac                             3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      3350      G   /home/steiner/zen/zen                         291MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      3930      G   /usr/bin/kitty                                  5MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

I have followed this tutorial: Plasma/Wayland/Nvidia - KDE Community Wiki

not working. can you help me out ?
or how can I figure out what is the wrong?

kurt_steiner · June 18, 2026, 1:18pm

for the log file might be very long, so I upload the error logs into my repostiory

many thanks if you can help me out

reisub · June 18, 2026, 3:21pm

Thank you for pointing to the screen to show how there is indeed no wallpaper, appreciate it.

Anyway try these commands to see if just restarting plasma fixes it temporarily

systemctl --user restart plasma-plasmashell.service

# or

kquitapp6 plasmashell && kstart plasmashell

# or

plasmashell --replace

if it does then it means your plasma instance crashed.

Then try updating the drivers just to be sure

sudo apt update
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-555 nvidia-utils nvidia-settings

Lastly for Wayland fonts try this:

# Add to /etc/environment:
GBM_BACKEND=nvidia-drm
__GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia
WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS=1
NVIDIA_ENABLE_GPU_FIRMWARE=0

You might also have a corrupted config

# Step 1: Backup the config files
cp ~/.config/plasmashellrc ~/.config/plasmashellrc.bak
cp ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc.bak
cp ~/.config/plasmarc ~/.config/plasmarc.bak

# Step 2: Remove  the config files
rm ~/.config/plasmashellrc
rm ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc
rm ~/.config/plasmarc

# Step 3: Restart plasmashell from the first code block in this message

kurt_steiner · June 19, 2026, 4:55am

not working, I have to tell you that all the errors and description are uploaded into my repostiory, and you can check it.

by the way, there is no nvidia-driver-555 in the debian 13 apt repository

kurt_steiner · June 19, 2026, 6:39am

new situations, now. I have installed nvidia 580 driver.

and this is the log file when kde failed:

6月 19 14:31:50 debian systemd[1219]: Starting plasma-kwin_x11.service - KDE Window Manager...
6月 19 14:31:50 debian systemd[1219]: Starting plasma-plasmashell.service - KDE Plasma Workspace...
6月 19 14:31:50 debian systemd[1219]: Started plasma-kwin_x11.service - KDE Window Manager.
6月 19 14:31:50 debian plasmashell[1468]: kf.svg: Could not locate KSvg image set "breeze-dark" in "plasma/desktoptheme/" using search path QList("/home/steiner/.local/share", "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share", "/home/steiner/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share")
6月 19 14:31:50 debian plasmashell[1468]: kf.svg: Could not locate KSvg image set "default" in "plasma/desktoptheme/" using search path QList("/home/steiner/.local/share", "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share", "/home/steiner/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share")
6月 19 14:31:50 debian plasmashell[1468]: kf.plasma.core: Could not locate plasma theme "breeze-dark" in plasma/desktoptheme/ using search path QList("/home/steiner/.local/share", "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share", "/home/steiner/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share")
6月 19 14:31:50 debian plasmashell[1468]: kf.plasma.core: Could not locate plasma theme "default" in plasma/desktoptheme/ using search path QList("/home/steiner/.local/share", "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share", "/home/steiner/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share")
6月 19 14:31:50 debian plasmashell[1468]: kf.svg: Could not locate KSvg image set "breeze-dark" in "plasma/desktoptheme/" using search path QList("/home/steiner/.local/share", "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share", "/home/steiner/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share")
6月 19 14:31:50 debian plasmashell[1468]: kf.svg: Could not locate KSvg image set "default" in "plasma/desktoptheme/" using search path QList("/home/steiner/.local/share", "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share", "/home/steiner/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share")
6月 19 14:31:50 debian plasmashell[1468]: kf.plasma.core: Could not locate plasma theme "breeze-dark" in plasma/desktoptheme/ using search path QList("/home/steiner/.local/share", "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share", "/home/steiner/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share")
6月 19 14:31:50 debian plasmashell[1468]: kf.plasma.core: Could not locate plasma theme "default" in plasma/desktoptheme/ using search path QList("/home/steiner/.local/share", "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share", "/home/steiner/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share")
6月 19 14:31:50 debian plasmashell[1468]: starting invalid corona "org.kde.plasma.desktop"
6月 19 14:31:50 debian systemd[1219]: plasma-plasmashell.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
6月 19 14:31:50 debian systemd[1219]: plasma-plasmashell.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
6月 19 14:31:50 debian systemd[1219]: Failed to start plasma-plasmashell.service - KDE Plasma Workspace.
6月 19 14:31:51 debian systemd[1219]: plasma-plasmashell.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
6月 19 14:31:51 debian systemd[1219]: Starting plasma-plasmashell.service - KDE Plasma Workspace...
6月 19 14:31:51 debian plasmashell[1542]: kf.svg: Could not locate KSvg image set "breeze-dark" in "plasma/desktoptheme/" using search path QList("/home/steiner/.local/share", "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share", "/home/steiner/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share")
6月 19 14:31:51 debian plasmashell[1542]: kf.svg: Could not locate KSvg image set "default" in "plasma/desktoptheme/" using search path QList("/home/steiner/.local/share", "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share", "/home/steiner/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share")
6月 19 14:31:51 debian plasmashell[1542]: kf.plasma.core: Could not locate plasma theme "breeze-dark" in plasma/desktoptheme/ using search path QList("/home/steiner/.local/share", "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share", "/home/steiner/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share")
6月 19 14:31:51 debian plasmashell[1542]: kf.plasma.core: Could not locate plasma theme "default" in plasma/desktoptheme/ using search path QList("/home/steiner/.local/share", "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share", "/home/steiner/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share")
6月 19 14:31:51 debian plasmashell[1542]: kf.svg: Could not locate KSvg image set "breeze-dark" in "plasma/desktoptheme/" using search path QList("/home/steiner/.local/share", "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share", "/home/steiner/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share")
6月 19 14:31:51 debian plasmashell[1542]: kf.svg: Could not locate KSvg image set "default" in "plasma/desktoptheme/" using search path QList("/home/steiner/.local/share", "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share", "/home/steiner/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share")
6月 19 14:31:51 debian plasmashell[1542]: kf.plasma.core: Could not locate plasma theme "breeze-dark" in plasma/desktoptheme/ using search path QList("/home/steiner/.local/share", "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share", "/home/steiner/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share")
6月 19 14:31:51 debian plasmashell[1542]: kf.plasma.core: Could not locate plasma theme "default" in plasma/desktoptheme/ using search path QList("/home/steiner/.local/share", "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share", "/home/steiner/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share")
6月 19 14:31:51 debian plasmashell[1542]: starting invalid corona "org.kde.plasma.desktop"
6月 19 14:31:51 debian systemd[1219]: plasma-plasmashell.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
6月 19 14:31:51 debian systemd[1219]: plasma-plasmashell.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
6月 19 14:31:51 debian systemd[1219]: Failed to start plasma-plasmashell.service - KDE Plasma Workspace.
6月 19 14:31:51 debian kwin_x11[1454]: kf.svg: Could not locate KSvg image set "breeze-dark" in "plasma/desktoptheme/" using search path QList("/home/steiner/.local/share", "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share", "/home/steiner/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share")
6月 19 14:31:51 debian kwin_x11[1454]: kf.svg: Could not locate KSvg image set "default" in "plasma/desktoptheme/" using search path QList("/home/steiner/.local/share", "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share", "/home/steiner/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share")
6月 19 14:31:51 debian kwin_x11[1454]: kf.plasma.core: Could not locate plasma theme "breeze-dark" in plasma/desktoptheme/ using search path QList("/home/steiner/.local/share", "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share", "/home/steiner/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share")
6月 19 14:31:51 debian kwin_x11[1454]: kf.plasma.core: Could not locate plasma theme "default" in plasma/desktoptheme/ using search path QList("/home/steiner/.local/share", "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share", "/home/steiner/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share")
6月 19 14:31:51 debian systemd[1219]: plasma-plasmashell.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.
6月 19 14:31:51 debian systemd[1219]: Starting plasma-plasmashell.service - KDE Plasma Workspace...
6月 19 14:31:51 debian kwin_x11[1454]: kf.config.core: "\"fsrestore1\" - conversion of \"0,0,0,0\" to QRect failed"
6月 19 14:31:51 debian kwin_x11[1454]: kf.config.core: "\"fsrestore2\" - conversion of \"0,0,0,0\" to QRect failed"
6月 19 14:31:51 debian kwin_x11[1454]: kf.config.core: "\"fsrestore3\" - conversion of \"0,0,0,0\" to QRect failed"
6月 19 14:31:51 debian kwin_x11[1454]: kf.config.core: "\"fsrestore4\" - conversion of \"0,0,0,0\" to QRect failed"
6月 19 14:31:52 debian plasmashell[1642]: kf.svg: Could not locate KSvg image set "breeze-dark" in "plasma/desktoptheme/" using search path QList("/home/steiner/.local/share", "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share", "/home/steiner/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share")
6月 19 14:31:52 debian plasmashell[1642]: kf.svg: Could not locate KSvg image set "default" in "plasma/desktoptheme/" using search path QList("/home/steiner/.local/share", "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share", "/home/steiner/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share")
6月 19 14:31:52 debian plasmashell[1642]: kf.plasma.core: Could not locate plasma theme "breeze-dark" in plasma/desktoptheme/ using search path QList("/home/steiner/.local/share", "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share", "/home/steiner/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share")
6月 19 14:31:52 debian plasmashell[1642]: kf.plasma.core: Could not locate plasma theme "default" in plasma/desktoptheme/ using search path QList("/home/steiner/.local/share", "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share", "/home/steiner/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share")
6月 19 14:31:52 debian plasmashell[1642]: kf.svg: Could not locate KSvg image set "breeze-dark" in "plasma/desktoptheme/" using search path QList("/home/steiner/.local/share", "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share", "/home/steiner/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share")
6月 19 14:31:52 debian plasmashell[1642]: kf.svg: Could not locate KSvg image set "default" in "plasma/desktoptheme/" using search path QList("/home/steiner/.local/share", "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share", "/home/steiner/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share")
6月 19 14:31:52 debian plasmashell[1642]: kf.plasma.core: Could not locate plasma theme "breeze-dark" in plasma/desktoptheme/ using search path QList("/home/steiner/.local/share", "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share", "/home/steiner/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share")
6月 19 14:31:52 debian plasmashell[1642]: kf.plasma.core: Could not locate plasma theme "default" in plasma/desktoptheme/ using search path QList("/home/steiner/.local/share", "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share", "/home/steiner/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share")
6月 19 14:31:52 debian plasmashell[1642]: starting invalid corona "org.kde.plasma.desktop"
6月 19 14:31:52 debian systemd[1219]: plasma-plasmashell.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
6月 19 14:31:52 debian systemd[1219]: plasma-plasmashell.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
6月 19 14:31:52 debian systemd[1219]: Failed to start plasma-plasmashell.service - KDE Plasma Workspace.
6月 19 14:31:52 debian systemd[1219]: plasma-plasmashell.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
6月 19 14:31:52 debian systemd[1219]: plasma-plasmashell.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
6月 19 14:31:52 debian systemd[1219]: plasma-plasmashell.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
6月 19 14:31:52 debian systemd[1219]: Failed to start plasma-plasmashell.service - KDE Plasma Workspace.

I notice that I have every delete the plasma config, and try reinstalling and purge plasma-desktop, but there is no such ~/.local/share/plasma* file or directory.

so I think this is the problem, I can figure it now

reisub · June 19, 2026, 7:22am

I think you have the same problem as many others after updating plasma 6.5 to 6.6 since the qml files have been compiled instead of having the actual qml file code provided. So after the update some have issues.

kurt_steiner · June 19, 2026, 7:27am

I think you have a mistake — I use the debian 13, and its kde version is 6.3.6

kurt_steiner · June 19, 2026, 8:22am

ok, I am a idiot, I fix it by remove .cache and .config

reisub · June 19, 2026, 10:24am

No, you’re Kurt Steiner, the Fixer of Bugs