Bug 293449

Summary:	x11-themes/sddm-freebsd-black-theme incompatible with SDDM 0.21.0 (Qt6 greeter)
Product:	Ports & Packages	Reporter:	Xiaodi Ma <i>
Component:	Individual Port(s)	Assignee:	freebsd-ports-bugs (Nobody) <ports-bugs>
Status:	New ---
Severity:	Affects Many People	CC:	i
Priority:	---
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Xiaodi Ma 2026-02-25 21:29:15 UTC

Hello,

The port x11-themes/sddm-freebsd-black-theme appears to be incompatible with the current version of SDDM (0.21.0.36_2).

1. Incorrect greeter requirement

The theme currently requires:

/usr/local/bin/sddm-greeter

However, recent SDDM versions (including 0.21.0.36_2) use:

/usr/local/bin/sddm-greeter-qt6

As a result, SDDM reports:

The theme at "/usr/local/share/sddm/themes/sddm-freebsd-black-theme"
requires missing "/usr/local/bin/sddm-greeter". Using fallback theme.

(WW) DAEMON: The theme at "/usr/local/share/sddm/themes/sddm-freebsd-black-theme" requires missing "/usr/local/bin/sddm-greeter" . Using fallback theme.

Even if I temporarily work around this with:

ln -s /usr/local/bin/sddm-greeter-qt6 /usr/local/bin/sddm-greeter

the theme still fails to load.

2. QML error with Qt6 greeter

When forcing it to use sddm-greeter-qt6, the greeter reports:

The current theme cannot be loaded due to the errors below,
please select another theme.

file:///usr/local/share/sddm/themes/sddm-freebsd-black-theme/Main.qml:49:24:
Invalid property assignment: "name" is a read-only property

This suggests the theme’s QML is not compatible with the Qt6-based greeter and likely needs to be updated for Qt6.

3. Maintainer status

According to FreshPorts:
https://www.freshports.org/x11-themes/sddm-freebsd-black-theme/

There is currently no maintainer assigned for this port.

If needed, I am willing to take over maintenance of this port and update it to properly support SDDM with Qt6.

Please let me know the correct procedure for becoming the maintainer.

Thank you.