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If you don’t want a playerctl dependency you can use a dbus library to check for mpris players manually, though it’s a little less readable

This is a really cool article and I’m glad the author did this… but I can’t believe nobody’s done this till now. I’m disappointed in myself for not thinking of this earlier lmao

Idk if this is more work than you wanna go to for it, but maybe install and configure gnome-keyring instead and see if that works? If the same thing works with that one, great, and if not at least the problem area has been narrowed down

Okay then it’s probably worth double checking the basics again lol

1. do you have both kwallet and kwallet-pam installed? (pacman -Qs kwallet should show both)
2. is your only wallet named kdewallet with the exact same password as your user account?
3. is sddm the actual greeter you’re using? (This one’s a longshot but I’m running out of ideas 😂)

If it’s yes to all of these I honestly don’t know what to think, maybe it’d be worth trying another wallet to see if that’s any different

It looks like kwallet takes more setup than I remembered, did you try following section 2.3 in the wiki page?

The other thing I can think of may not be relevant (been a while since I’ve used plasma now) but I’ve heard plasma has a built in greeter these days so maybe worth double checking to be sure you’re really using sddm. I feel like if it’s installed it’s safe to assume you’re using it, but if you’ve tried everything else this might be a worthwhile sanity check

You have to add a line to the /etc/pam.d file for your greeter for KDE’s wallet. The arch wiki page for the KDE wallet should have the line(s) you need

You can do it in mint but the easiest way to test it is probably just to try a live usb of a distro that runs a more recent kernel. Arch-based distros come to mind for that, so maybe try endeavourOS on a usb?

Pros: you try something new and fun, and get an unusual setup running

Cons: literally everything else

I have everything you mentioned (except maybe the selection only stuff, I don’t use it and forget if I set it up at all) set up in my zsh+kitty setup, so it’s definitely possible. If you want I can dig thru my zshrc and kitty config for the relevant parts once I’m at my pc later.

People in here saying it’s a bad idea for things like compatibility with other shells make some good points, but I think they’re missing one important aspect - fuck other shells, what do I care? 95% of my time in the terminal is spent on my own machine and I may as well make it convenient for myself. The odd time I ssh into another box without my keybinds I’ll be a bit less efficient, but that’s a worthwhile trade off imo.