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Can't change background in sddm

Just deleted bazzite-gnome and switched to kde. One problem I've encountered is that I can't change the background for sddm. If I go into the sddm settings and click on the picture to change the wallpaper to the background I want, as soon as I close settings it goes right back to the default. How do I fix this?
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I followed this thread https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/another-way-to-customize-sddm-under-kinoite/37773 and it worked for me, but be careful when you edit your fstab file
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Another way to customize sddm under Kinoite
Because the config file of sddm is under /usr/share it is not possible to install sddm themes and change background pictures as normal. @nullrequest has thought of making sddm themes a rpm package and use rpm-ostree to install it. see hear However, she only provides source code but not binary program which makes it really inconvenient to use. ...
Another way to customize sddm under Kinoite
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