Switching back to desktop from TTY/console presents unusable login screen

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hadoq

Greetings,

I have a problem that I can't seem to fix by myself. This is on a HP laptop with FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE and KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland (see below).
SDDM service is enabled, so the graphical enviroment is started upon startup.

When I am logged into the Desktop Environment, switch to TTY/console and then switch back to the Desktop Environment (with ALT + F9), I am presented with the SDDM login screen and the following is the case:
  • The keyboard is not working.
  • The password box has entered data in it.
  • The mouse cursor is the old 'X' type cursor instead of an arrow.
  • Mouse still works.
  • I can still switch back to the console.
I know it is the SDDM login screen and not the lock screen, as I have a different wallpaper for that (exactly for this purpose to narrow it down).

Basically I'm locked out of my graphical session. I need to do killall startplasma-wayland as root to kill the session, after which I am presented with a working SDDM login screen.

Noteworthy is that when I do NOT login to the Desktop Environment after startup, but switch to one of the consoles first I can switch back to the SDDM login screen and login as I would normally do, e.g. 'working as designed'.

I haven't found anything special in /var/log/messages.

My system:

Code: 
Operating System: FreeBSD 15.0
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.21.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Kernel Version: 15.0-RELEASE (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Memory: 15.8 GiB of usable RAM
Graphics Processor: Intel® UHD Graphics
Manufacturer: HP
Product Name: HP ProBook 440 G7

I'm a recent FreeBSD convert, so bear with me please :)
Any help is greatly appreciated.
 
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