MySQL Workbench error "name is not activatable"

I'm working with Arch Linux using MariaDB through LAMPP, whenever I use MySQL workbench and try to connect to my local database I get the following: > Your connection attempt failed for user 'root' to the MySQL server at 127.0.0.1:3306:
The name is not activatable. The reason why I mention that I'm using MariaDB is that I get this error when I test the connection: > Incompatible/nonstandard server version or protocol detected (10.4.32) <== MariaDB's version I can still continue despite the error, and it shows that it successfully connected to the database, however, whenever trying to run a SQL Script, it can't connect to the database. I've tried: using another user, reinstalling MySQL workbench, reinstalling XAMPP. Yet all of these attempts were in vain. Is there a method to solve this *whilst* keeping MariaDB?