Change avatar:
You can simply put a png image named username.face.icon into the default directory /usr/share/sddm/faces/.

For SDDM background, open login screen SDDM (Open krunner and type sddm)
Select your theme and at the bottom of the customize theme window you should see an option for background. Click it and change to whatever you like.

From the error, it looks like it is the L2 cache memory on the CPU itself.

You are very welcome!

Before the problem begins, ping your routers IP address from both your laptop and desktop. Do you get a response?

Once the issue of not be able to access the Internet begins, have you tried pinging your router IP from both your laptop and desktop? If you can ping your routers IP, try to ping beyond your router using ping 8.8.8.8 Does that work?

If you can’t ping your router once the issue begins, can your laptop still ping your desktop and vice versa?

This issue is going to take some basic troubleshooting in order to determine where the problem actually resides.

Create a file in /etc/profile.d called kwin.sh
Inside that file put the following:
export __GL_YIELD=“USLEEP”

Make the file executable and reboot. That should fix the tearing issue and does not have the overhead that triple buffering does. This is typically the first solution to try. If this does not work then try triple buffering.

You’re welcome and I hope they get things resolved soon!

@parkslope said in Private Internet Access VPN:

Gnome for the first time.

Edit: Just heard from PIA. They are having the same issue with Anteros as I am. They are going to talk to the developers.

Interesting, I didn’t see any comments on the package site about it. So you posted on the PIA website?

Here you can post directly to Arch package maintainer:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/private-internet-access-vpn/

You don’t need PIA tools. Remove it. All you need is the private-internet-access-vpn package. You may have a conflict. Remove both and then install private-internet-access-vpn again. Follow wiki I posted earlier.

Which desktop are you using?

I have used Gnome, KDE and Cinnamon all with success using PIA. Currently using KDE (Plasma)

Yes, NetworkManager should have a daemon.

sudo systemctl status NetworkManager

It should be loaded and active. Y
If it is loaded but not active then:

sudo systemctl enable NetworkManager
sudo systemctl start NetworkManager

You also need networkmanager-openvpn installed. Are you running pia-a as root?

Did you get any errors when PIA was being built from the AUR?