You know how when Linux boots up, you can press the delete key to jump from the graphical boot screen to a view of the kernel and init system logs? Is this possible with the KDE splash screen so I know what’s going on with that too? I’d be happy with either a splash screen that can optionally be switched to a log view, or just removing the splash screen and having a log view permanently.
From KDE Userbase: https://userbase.kde.org/System_Settings/Splash_Screen/en. Though I don’t know if you disable it whether you can see the log info or not. To find it, just go to the KDE settings and search splash screan and pick ‘none’ instead the default Breeze.
Tried it: it shows the Plasma components loading in real time and appearing onscreen. You know what? That’s pretty cool too, I can nerd out to that!
The Splash screens seems to be written in QML (check /usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breeze.desktop/contents/splash/)…so it should be possible to re-write them to display any information you want…including the journalclt output during the login what is probably the closest you get to a log of the KDE startup. Might need you to write a c++ plugin for QML though…no clue if there is already a QML module that can access journald logs.
(And of course you probably want to do that in a local copy in ~/.local/share/plasma/look-and-feel)
Not part of KDE, but you may also be able to access logs from one of the TTYs.
On my openSUSE box, it’s available from Ctrl+Alt+F10. Doesn’t seem to be available on Ubuntu; no idea about other distros.I also have no idea which logs actually get shown there…