(I've seen a few occurrences of a similar issue around so its possible I missed a viable solution in my searches)
I installed Nvidia drivers for my system following the instructions on the Arch Wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA) using nvidia-dkms for linux-zen - adding the modules to mkinitcpio.conf and the nvidia-drm.modeset=1 kernel parameter.
After restarting, most LXQt features seemed to have become disabled (Panel, Runner, Desktop and Alt-Tab overlay). Right clicking on the desktop still produced a generic menu with a list of software categories, some of which were installed but most not, and lxqt-config still works.
Rerunning nvidia-xconfig I managed to get the desktop up (i.e. the background and files in ~/Desktop were showing), but I'm still unable to get any other LXQt features working.
Invoking lxqt binaries manually, I seem to get a bunch of DBus errors
# All three seem to do the same (show a search bar in a modal at the top of the screen), but `lxqt-runner` exits after the modal appears > lxqt-session > lxqt-runner > startlxqt Error name "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs" Error msg "No such interface “org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties”" dbusCall: QDBusInterface is invalid "org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit" "/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager" "org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager" The full logs here: https://pastebin.com/znxgwtfW
I am a tad lost as to how to fix this, so if anyone has had a similar thing or knows what's wrong I'd appreciate it
Here's my system:
Nvidia Card: RTX 2060 Super Arch Linux Kernel: `5.12.9-zen1-1-zen` Nvidia-dkms: `nvidia-dkms-465.31-1` Dkms: `dkms-2.8.4-1 ` LXQt: `lxqt-runner-0.17.0-1 lxqt-session-0.17.1-1 lxqt-panel-0.17.1-1` 