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fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:26 AM

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I’m trying to reset my user password but when I try to get to tty. I can’t, I just get a black screen. Can anyone explain why please?

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:30 AM

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How are you trying to get to a TTY?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:30 AM

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Umm through alt + cntrl and f9 to f12

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:31 AM

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Depending on your setup you're either on F1 or F7. So try ctrl+alt+F2 through F6

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:33 AM

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ashen herald Depending on your setup you're either on F1 or F7. So try ctrl+alt+F2 through F6

I tried those

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F1 through 12

autumn lantern Oct 25, 2024, 2:34 AM

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Following. I was helping him install arch and we got all the way through, installed the ML4W script via yay from the devs GitHub and upon logout/login the set password doesn't work.
We tried to enter tty and passwd <user> to no success.

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:34 AM

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Yup

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Oh it was the r cntrl

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No I did r cntrl no workie

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:37 AM

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What about left ctrl and left alt + F2?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:38 AM

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One second

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:40 AM

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ashen herald What about left ctrl and left alt + F2?

No workie

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Ok left cntrl and left alt plus F11

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Gives a black screen

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Lemme try right

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:42 AM

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Did you try left ctrl + left alt + F2 and not F11?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:43 AM

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ashen herald Did you try left ctrl + left alt + F2 and not F11?

No workie man

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:43 AM

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Also on a blank screen try pressing enter, just for good measure

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:43 AM

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Learned how to reverse it

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:43 AM

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Change the number of your virtual consoles to 6 if they aren't already: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Getty

Getty

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:44 AM

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fading zinc Learned how to reverse it

Huh?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:44 AM

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I could reverse the black screen

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Theough the same buttons

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Actually

autumn lantern Oct 25, 2024, 2:45 AM

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ashen herald Huh?

This all happened after a dotfiles installation. He made a backup, perhaps it would be worth it to restore from backup?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:45 AM

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Cntrl + alt + F2

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Return to lockscreen

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Cntrl + alt + F11

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Blackscreen

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left

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:47 AM

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F11 is going to be black. No need to try that

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:47 AM

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This is the cheatsheet

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Ig

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:47 AM

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autumn lantern This all happened after a dotfiles installation. He made a backup, perhaps it wo...

How did he back it up?

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I'd still check the getty link that I sent to verify that there are 6 of them

autumn lantern Oct 25, 2024, 2:48 AM

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ashen herald How did he back it up?

The script takes your current .config files and backs them up. But it was a brand new fresh install so....technically just rm -rf the config file and reboot, it should regenerate right?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:48 AM

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I GOT IN

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Alt + cntrl + F2-F6

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:49 AM

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fading zinc Alt + cntrl + F2-F6

What did you do differently this time?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:49 AM

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Used left

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Ok I’m in root

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:50 AM

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fading zinc No workie

And this?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:51 AM

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Bro

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How tf am I supposed to know

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The computer is moody like that 😭

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now passwd <the username you want to change>

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I’ll use this first

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Ok done

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Changed the password

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What’s next

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:57 AM

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fading zinc Changed the password

And put it in notes

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@ashen herald what else should I do before I leave tty?

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I changed the password of the user

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Also seven told me to do something here

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you can nano into /etc/passwd
then don't change ANYTHING. simply go to the end and add another blank link under the last entry in the file. Save and exit. reboot.

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not sure if it will work, kind of a shot in the dark. But you have to be sure you don't change anything else in that file

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This is what seven told me

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So I might need to know what I should do now?

autumn lantern Oct 25, 2024, 3:12 AM

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fading zinc Also seven told me to do something here

Yeah I would not try to adjust that file to be honest. It was a shot in the dark and not entirely a great idea

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I was just trying to think of anything that could help

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:14 AM

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I changed the password

autumn lantern Oct 25, 2024, 3:15 AM

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Did it work?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:15 AM

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I didn’t exit

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Should I restart?

autumn lantern Oct 25, 2024, 3:17 AM

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You can try that. Not sure why it won't accept your new password.

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:17 AM

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I have changed it just now

autumn lantern Oct 25, 2024, 3:17 AM

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From my experience, dotfiles shouldn't do that.

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:17 AM

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Made it different

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Do I exit tty through restarting or through the keyboard?

autumn lantern Oct 25, 2024, 3:18 AM

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Either way

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Just reboot the PC

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:18 AM

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That’s what I did

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Idk how to do from keyboard

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If it doesn’t

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I’m going to spiral

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Into madness

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I’m going to kill

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 3:20 AM

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Did you try googling how to reboot from the command line?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:20 AM

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I think I forgot to say passwd <username>

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THIS FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT

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HOW TF

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HOWWWW

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 3:21 AM

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Well handy, then you can use that password to log in as root

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Exiting the terminal can be done with exit or ctrl+d on a blank line

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:22 AM

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fading zinc I think I forgot to say passwd <username>

I’ll try this again

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I might make it the same as the root password

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Should I??

autumn lantern Oct 25, 2024, 3:24 AM

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You can if you want. For security purposes it's generally not advised but you can.

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:24 AM

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Idk what to put

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I put two passwords so far

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One I used for the vm

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The other for all my systems

autumn lantern Oct 25, 2024, 3:27 AM

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Try something for me....log into a tty if you aren't already and ls /home/<your user>/ I want to see where it backed up your .config

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:29 AM

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autumn lantern Oct 25, 2024, 3:30 AM

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ls /home/user/dotfiles? Is that where it put them?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:30 AM

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Yeah ig

autumn lantern Oct 25, 2024, 3:30 AM

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What is inside?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:30 AM

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I think those are the hidden files

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:31 AM

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autumn lantern What is inside?

.config?

autumn lantern Oct 25, 2024, 3:31 AM

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fading zinc .config?

Inside /home/user/dotfiles/

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:32 AM

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So this

autumn lantern Oct 25, 2024, 3:32 AM

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Ok so the dotfiles folder is your backup.

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:33 AM

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I have fastfetch

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Yay

autumn lantern Oct 25, 2024, 3:34 AM

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This started after we installed the MW4L dotfiles. If you want to revert them to see if that fixes this password issue, you can
rm -rf /home/user/.config
Then
cp -r /home/user/dotfiles/ /home/user/.config/

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:35 AM

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So remove MW4L

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:38 AM

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autumn lantern This started after we installed the MW4L dotfiles. If you want to revert them to...

Is it home/user/dotfiles/.config?

autumn lantern Oct 25, 2024, 3:39 AM

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That's what that would do yes, I only suggest it cause that's what we did before we started to have issues...
His dotfiles are in /home/user/.config, your old ones that you installed with are in /home/user/dotfiles

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:40 AM

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So we remove dotfiles

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That’s what I see

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 3:42 AM

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that was from your backup

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the actual current files are still in ~/.config

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:43 AM

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Ohh

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They said we started having issues when there were backups

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 3:43 AM

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waaaaaiiiit. did you nuke your .config?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:43 AM

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Mot yet

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 3:43 AM

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you didn't run this?

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did you backspace it?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:44 AM

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winged pier did you backspace it?

Where exactly?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:44 AM

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autumn lantern This started after we installed the MW4L dotfiles. If you want to revert them to...

This is what I used from commands

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 3:44 AM

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it looks like you were tab-completing it, and ran that?

autumn lantern Oct 25, 2024, 3:45 AM

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I was advising replacing your current .config with your old one in the dotfiles folder, which is your backup

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:45 AM

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winged pier it looks like you were tab-completing it, and ran that?

Correct

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 3:45 AM

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ah, okay. Then to finish this last command on screen, you need to put a target for the copying

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which would be ~/, but I think you need to take the trailing / off the source

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:46 AM

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autumn lantern I was advising replacing your current .config with your old one in the dotfiles ...

Oh so rm -rf removed the new config

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 3:46 AM

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fading zinc Oh so rm -rf removed the new config

forget it, I was getting caught up

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:47 AM

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Lol I was just explaining but don’t take it from me

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I’m just saying what I think the command does

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I’m not sure

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After all I’m a beginner in arch

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 3:48 AM

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rm -rf removed the ~~new~~ current config

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then you are copying the backup from earlier back into place

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:48 AM

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Yup I think so

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 3:49 AM

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remove that trailing slash, and add ~/ so that cp knows where to copy the backup .config to

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:49 AM

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that for the keyboard indicating where I’m at

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 3:50 AM

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incorrect, I was not referring to the cursor. Remove the / from the end of .config

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just to remove ambiguity for the cp command, so it knows exactly which object you intend it to copy

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:51 AM

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winged pier

Can you type out how I should type it please?

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 3:51 AM

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that's sucha long username dude

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:51 AM

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Make it <username>

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 3:51 AM

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cp -r /home/a/dotfiles/.config ~/

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:52 AM

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Where tf do I get a squiggly line

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 3:53 AM

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should be above your tab key, at least it is on US keyboards.

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:53 AM

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Found it

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 3:53 AM

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word

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:53 AM

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winged pier `cp -r /home/a/dotfiles/.config ~/`

Like this??

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 3:53 AM

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is that what I typed?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:53 AM

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Basically

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 3:54 AM

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Basically doesn't count

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it has to be exact

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:54 AM

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Wdym

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I literally pressed the exact key man 😭

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 3:54 AM

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but you skipped a space

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....dotfiles/.config THIS SPACE RIGHT HERE ~/
....dotfiles/.config ~/

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:55 AM

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What space??

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 3:55 AM

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that space

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this kind of help is what gets tiring

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I can't make you read better

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:55 AM

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You mean in the config?

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 3:56 AM

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see my edits

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:57 AM

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I feel dumb af?

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 3:57 AM

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Facepalm

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:57 AM

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Bro 😭😭

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 3:57 AM

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bro

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 3:57 AM

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Once he gets it right, there are two things wrong with the command 😛

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 3:57 AM

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I checked on the 'r', it's okay

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 3:58 AM

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He's root and he'll make those files owned by root. Also, it will put it in /root, not in /home/A....

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:58 AM

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Is there a space??

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 3:58 AM

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oh, lordy you're right

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:58 AM

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BRO WHERE 😭😭😭

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 3:59 AM

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Better to use -a for restoring backups and yeah, ~Aboabdullah/

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 4:00 AM

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So squiglly line ~<username>

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I feel lobotomized

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 4:01 AM

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ashen herald Better to use `-a` for restoring backups and yeah, `~Aboabdullah/`

Can you make it clearer by doing it as a directory

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My tardiness plus adhd are killing me

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And if the username is long af

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PLEASE

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PUT <username>

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Or <user> instead of ~Aboabdullah~

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So is it like this??

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@winged pier is this good or is there something wrong with the command??

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fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 4:20 AM

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winged pier `cp -r /home/a/dotfiles/.config ~/`

You meant like this?????

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 4:37 AM

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cp -a /home/<username>/dotfiles/.config /home/<username>/

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 4:39 AM

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How about that command?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 4:39 AM

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winged pier `cp -a /home/<username>/dotfiles/.config /home/<username>/`

Do I execute it or do this instead??

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 4:40 AM

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the picture you posted will not do anything

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because you still have not seen the missing space, nor processed the most recent comments from ryper.

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type the new command that I just gave you, letter for letter, space for space, substituting <username> as appropriate

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 4:41 AM

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There is no space

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 4:42 AM

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keep going

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 4:42 AM

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There is more to the command??

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 4:42 AM

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or explain to me what the command on your screen is going to do

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 4:42 AM

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Umm

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How am I supposed to knwo??

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I still haven’t finished the course thing man 😭

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 4:43 AM

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because cp is one of the fundamental linux commands

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 4:43 AM

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Oh

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Wait a second

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 4:43 AM

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and because I gave you literally more text than what you photographed

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you cannot keep relying on getting exact commands handed to you

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this is not our computer

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 4:44 AM

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It’s to copy files

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To another directory

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 4:44 AM

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winged pier this is not our computer

I understand

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Ok so I copy the file to that directory??

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 4:45 AM

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which file to where

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this is a quiz

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 4:45 AM

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UMMM 😭😭😭

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To .config

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I think

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The old .config

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Right??

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 4:47 AM

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winged pier `cp -a /home/<username>/dotfiles/.config /home/<username>/`

Do you have this whole command typed into your terminal?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 4:47 AM

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Wait

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 4:47 AM

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the whole thing?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 4:47 AM

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No

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 4:47 AM

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bingo

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 4:47 AM

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I’ll type it now

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So it should be like this

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Now I can explain it

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So what I’m doing

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Is that I’m taking the old config file from the /dotfile

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And moving it to the new file

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Replacing the old config

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Because that’s why it’s broken

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 4:49 AM

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I hereby award you one rubber duck

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ducky

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 4:50 AM

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YAY

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 4:50 AM

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yes, you are copying the backup from dotfiles back to it's original location

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go ahead and run what you typed in

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 4:50 AM

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Umm wtf

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 4:50 AM

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o no

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 4:50 AM

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Wait maybe ~?

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That’s why

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 4:51 AM

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fading zinc Wait maybe ~?

nope

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hmmm

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somewhere along the line, either the backup didn't get made, or it got erased or moved

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 4:51 AM

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I’ll use ls

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 4:51 AM

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type history -n 25 and lemme see

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but also, probably okay then to just make a new .config and try to log in. Your arch install is what, less than a day old and you can't have done much customization on it yet

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 4:52 AM

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You sure this is the right command?

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 4:52 AM

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the cp command? it would have been if .config is actually in dotfiles

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 4:53 AM

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winged pier type `history -n 25` and lemme see

No this

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 4:53 AM

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fading zinc That’s what I see

which it was here

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oh, nope, I must be high

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history | tail -n 25

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 4:53 AM

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Could I use cp..

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 4:54 AM

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that "|" character might be above your enter key

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 4:54 AM

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I think that one?

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 4:54 AM

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or just history

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it'll dump everything out

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no sense in limiting it

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@fading zinc just do history

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 4:55 AM

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Ok

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winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 4:56 AM

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oh, wtf, you misspelled your own name

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 4:56 AM

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ahahahaha

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good catch, I didn't even see that

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 4:57 AM

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fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 4:57 AM

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OMG 😭

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Ik

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I just realized 💀💀💀

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 4:57 AM

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lol

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 4:57 AM

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Sorry

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 4:57 AM

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no worries

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tab is your friend

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 4:57 AM

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I was awake for 14 hours

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Installing arch 💀💀

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 4:57 AM

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also reading error messages is also your friend

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 4:58 AM

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ashen herald also reading error messages is also your friend

pssshhhhh

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 4:58 AM

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💀

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 4:58 AM

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winged pier pssshhhhh

Bro tryna gatekeep 💀

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Ok

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I corrected it

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winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:00 AM

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try it

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:00 AM

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Ok

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:00 AM

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it should tell you ...... NOTHING!

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:01 AM

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NOTHING WAS TOLD

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:01 AM

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okay, so that should have put your .config back in your home directory, just to doublecheck permissions, let's see ls -lA /home/a...../.config

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wait

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see edit

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:02 AM

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Tabbed it

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:02 AM

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and I think I caught earlier that the goal of this is to restore your config file, but you also think some MWsomething config is broken? Do we need to remove that then?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:02 AM

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fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:02 AM

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winged pier and I think I caught earlier that the goal of this is to restore your config fil...

Idk all I wanted to do is reset a password and fix a config file

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:03 AM

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goddamn, I am high. You want -la for the arguments there

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thats a lowercase L and a lowercase A (the upper A in the first command was my bad)

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:03 AM

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So

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ls -la

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:03 AM

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yes

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:04 AM

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/directory/burger/.config/

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:04 AM

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fading zinc Idk all I wanted to do is reset a password and fix a config file

fix a config file
was it this one?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:04 AM

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Correct

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:04 AM

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fading zinc /directory/burger/.config/

....yyyeeessss???

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 5:04 AM

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btw, did it copy .config into .config?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:05 AM

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winged pier ....yyyeeessss???

Ok d is home and burger is username btw

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I was just playing around

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:06 AM

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ashen herald btw, did it copy .config into .config?

nah, this looks fine

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:06 AM

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fading zinc I was just playing around

got some output for me?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:06 AM

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Oh wait

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Tab or enter?

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Enter duh

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I already pressed tab

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:07 AM

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you blow my mind

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:07 AM

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Sorry I’m just tired 😭

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winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:08 AM

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okay, looks good

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see how they are all owned by your user, and the users group?

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(the middle columns)

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then yes, the rwx's in the earlier column match the cheatsheet

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but that's not what I was looking for rn

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you're good

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try logging in to this user account

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:09 AM

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That’s it?

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:09 AM

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you can use a different vty by pressing a different alt+f3 - alt+f6 combo

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and come back to this one later if needed

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:10 AM

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To get to this menu right?

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:10 AM

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or you can just log out of root and log back in as your user

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:10 AM

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winged pier you can use a different vty by pressing a different alt+f3 - alt+f6 combo

I think it was alt+f3

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Left alt+F3

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:11 AM

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then alt+f4 should get you a new login prompt, and alt+f3 would bring you back to this root terminal

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:11 AM

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Correct

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Lemme clear

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Actually

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It’s F2

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:12 AM

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so try logging in with your Aboabdullah user on the alt+f4 terminal

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:13 AM

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Ok for login

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Do I put user??

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:13 AM

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you should sleep 😛

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:14 AM

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Yess

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But I need to check

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Before I go sleep

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:14 AM

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this is your real life quiz then

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:14 AM

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Bro 😭

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I need to see if I can login

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:14 AM

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fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:17 AM

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THE PASSWORD STILL DOESN’T WORK

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WHAT???

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This is insufferable man

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:17 AM

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so I do see you trying it here:

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:18 AM

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Yeah I changed it multiple times

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Same exact password

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No reason to be the wrong one

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But it is

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:19 AM

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go back to your root terminal, alt+f2, and run su - Aboabdullah

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:20 AM

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Ok

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Now I put passwd

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Right??

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:20 AM

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yes

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as long as the prompt changed from [root@ to [Ab..@

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:21 AM

#

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Ok I’ll run it now

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:21 AM

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fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:22 AM

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IT’S ASKING FOR MY CURRENT PASSWORD

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:23 AM

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lol, forgot about that

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:23 AM

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It’s passwd abo in root

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:23 AM

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and it's still not working?

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then yeah, you have to use passwd Ab... from root shell

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so you will have to exit the [Ab..@ shell

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:24 AM

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Changed it

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Should work

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It didn’t 😭

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I rebooted to make sure

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:25 AM

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is there an error?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:26 AM

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It changes successfully under root

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:26 AM

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no, on login

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:27 AM

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Nope

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It changes on root

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I can’t change it on the user itself

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I’ll try again

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:28 AM

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nono, is there an error message when you try to log in as your own user

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not su - to it, but login:

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does it actually say incorrect password?

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are you setting it to something complicated? try 1234 for now

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:29 AM

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Changed the password

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Put it in my name and birthyear

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Even changing it to that

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Doesn’t work 😭

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:31 AM

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fading zinc Doesn’t work 😭

I need more than this

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:31 AM

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winged pier does it actually say incorrect password?

It says login failed

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:31 AM

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login FAILED or login INCORRECT?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:32 AM

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Failed

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:32 AM

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try a bad password

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type dlkjhbnfgaklsdjfghdklsjhf;alzds

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:32 AM

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No

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I’ll forget it fast

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:32 AM

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nonono

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:32 AM

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Make it less retarded?

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:32 AM

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try to log in with that

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:32 AM

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Idk tbh

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:33 AM

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I want to know if it says login failed or login incorrect when you try to log in with a known bad password

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I am trying to find out if there is a difference

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:33 AM

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Ok I’ll try inputting

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1234

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:33 AM

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do not change the password

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try to log in with a bad one

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fail on purpose

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when I log in to a tty with a bad password, I get login INCORRECT

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:34 AM

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I am

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:34 AM

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more

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:34 AM

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It says Login failed!

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:34 AM

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okay

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:35 AM

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Something is wrong with either the password txt

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Or something

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There has to be an explanation

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:36 AM

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yeah, go back to the root termianl and type journalctl -xe and scroll around in that

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til you can see the failed login

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:37 AM

#

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8:34:24

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:38 AM

#

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what are you doing?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:38 AM

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sddm-greeter[718]: Message received

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:39 AM

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winged pier

I don’t remember 😭

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:39 AM

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you are not entering a username?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:39 AM

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Think I was logging into my user

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WTF

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I LITERALLY HAVE A USER

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WHAT

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:40 AM

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fading zinc

.

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:40 AM

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but also, you're trying to log into the gui?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:40 AM

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BRO

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:40 AM

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winged pier but also, you're trying to log into the gui?

I don’t remember

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:41 AM

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you did this three minutes ago

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start remembering

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or go to sleep

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:41 AM

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Oh wait you mean the lock screen of arch?

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:41 AM

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I been asking you to try logging in to the terminal

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not the gui

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:41 AM

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😭

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You mean su- username

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:42 AM

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but yeah, are you not entering a username on the login screen when it boots up?

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how is it supposed to know who to log in as?

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~~Can't remember if sddm by default has user cards or a login box~~ unimportant, do not process

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:43 AM

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winged pier how is it supposed to know who to log in as?

It’s supposed me (Aboabdullah)

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Who is the user

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:43 AM

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show me

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:44 AM

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Here

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If you mean the arch lockscreen

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:44 AM

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try the terminal again

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ctrl+alt+f3

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log in as your user there

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:45 AM

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Done

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I’m logged in

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Instantly????

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:45 AM

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then go to sleep, fix sddm tomorrow

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:46 AM

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So we are good?

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I can log in in to arch?

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:46 AM

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sounds like it?

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[Ab...@hostname?]

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:47 AM

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Yup

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Huh?

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:47 AM

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fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:47 AM

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Lol

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Ok I’ll close the ticket

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:49 AM

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lol, yes, you have technically changed your password

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:49 AM

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I’ll put it again when I am back

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:49 AM

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winged pier lol, yes, you have technically changed your password

But I need to log in though

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:50 AM

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I'm gonna give you some advice right now

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don't go with hyprland yet

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:50 AM

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So I stick with gnome for now

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:50 AM

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that is a level of tomfoolery that you are not prepared for

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:50 AM

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Oh yeah

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:50 AM

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fading zinc So I stick with gnome for now

in which case, you should swap sddm for gdm

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:50 AM

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I heard the setup WAS BULLSHIT

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:50 AM

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sddm for plasma, gdm for gnome

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:51 AM

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Remind me when I open another ticket please or I’ll just screenshot it

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:52 AM

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yeah, definitely a problem for another time

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:52 AM

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Ok I won’t hyprland for now

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:52 AM

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you should just change this thread to "Aboabdullah's Arch Install Extravaganza" and keep everything here

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:52 AM

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Lol

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Amazing title

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Aboabdullah's Arch Install Extravaganza

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I updated the inactivity

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If we don’t say anything here for 3 days

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It gets deleted

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:54 AM

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deleted or hidden?

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go to bed

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:55 AM

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winged pier deleted or hidden?

Hide 💀

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:55 AM

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winged pier go to bed

Ok gn or gm??

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 5:55 AM

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getting lateish for me

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 5:55 AM

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💀

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Yeah I’ll go sleep

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Gn

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 1:58 PM

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https://youtu.be/QT0jJ6kGtYo?si=78NWUMzP81LRB55X

YouTube

Tech Ressolve

Reset Forgotten Password in Any Linux distro| ft. Arch Linux

In this video, I’ll show you how to reset a forgotten root or user password on any Linux distro using a simple and effective method. Whether you're running Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, or even Arch Linux, this step-by-step guide will walk you through the process of recovering access to your system without reinstalling the OS.

🖥️ What you'll learn:

...

▶ Play video

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Think this tutorial can help

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To reset my user password

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I’ll do it later when I can

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 2:01 PM

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Your password is fixed

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We got you logged in last night

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Please don't circle around that again

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 2:02 PM

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fading zinc

This is your password already fixed

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:02 PM

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You mean in the lock screen?

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I don’t remember

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And I tried logging in again and I still couldn’t get to the arch homescreen 😭

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I’ll try logging in again

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Also you said we technically solved the problem?

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:09 PM

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winged pier This is your password already fixed

Was the password ever wrong?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:09 PM

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It only says login failed

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Ok I decided to get in hyprland and see if it has to do with that

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Ok jt

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You said I should change from sddm to something right??

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I’m in the ML4W menu

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:12 PM

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fading zinc Ok I decided to get in hyprland and see if it has to do with that

You're digging your grave even further by trying more and more complicated things

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:13 PM

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Ok I canceled it

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:14 PM

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You've already installed this person's custom config files and don't quite know what it installed for you (although the list of packages is in the git repo). You would be better off simply choosing a desktop environment that you want to use, going to the Arch wiki and installing it

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:14 PM

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I used GNOME

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For a desktop environment

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:14 PM

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Then install that and use it

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:15 PM

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I have it already

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I have GNOME and Hyprland

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And GNOME in ever possible setting

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Xorg and wayland together

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:16 PM

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Ok, well it seems you're using sddm now? I'd disable whatever display manager you've set (sddm?) and enable gdm and go back to using Gnome

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:17 PM

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So I have to open ML4W and switch it from there?

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:17 PM

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Just log into a TTY and do it from there

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:17 PM

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Ok

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Should login as root or user?

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Ironically

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:18 PM

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Can you make these changes as your user?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:18 PM

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Yes

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:18 PM

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You can enable and disable display managers as your user?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:18 PM

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But I can’t log in for some reason

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:18 PM

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ashen herald You can enable and disable display managers as your user?

Um not sure let’s just go for root

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:18 PM

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https://tenor.com/bZP3r.gif

Tenor

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:19 PM

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I’ll troubleshoot it from today

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I don’t want a computer that I can’t access

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I need it for school and games mainly

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:20 PM

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At this point, I almost want to recommend you get on a distro that you can't keep breaking, like NixOS

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:20 PM

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I hate tty man 😭

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:20 PM

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Then why are you using Arch?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:21 PM

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Because of the highly modular ui

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Also

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I can play sparking zero online no problem

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Ok I’m in root

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:22 PM

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fading zinc I can play sparking zero online no problem

That'll work on pretty much any newish distro

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:22 PM

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I tried on nobara

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To no avail

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:22 PM

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fading zinc Because of the highly modular ui

Yes, so many things to shoot yourself in the foot with 😛

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:22 PM

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fading zinc I tried on nobara

With proton-GE?

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:23 PM

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Think it’s easy anti cheat fucking me over

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Online works on linux as of what I seen on my research

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I should’ve tested it on my steam deck 💀

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Anyways what am I supposed to do passwd [user]

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And then enter the new password

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Nah I’m sure of it this time

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:27 PM

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Do me a favor and run: cat /etc/security/faillock.conf

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:28 PM

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Ok once I check again

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I MADE THE PASSWORD VERY SIMPLE MAN

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WTF

#

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There ya go

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:30 PM

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fading zinc Ok once I check again

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:30 PM

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I feel so disappointed in my self 😭

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:30 PM

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ashen herald “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expe...

Yup ik

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That’s the thing

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I also note my passwords too

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To MAKE SURE I have not made a single mistake

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:31 PM

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Try: faillock --user <username> --reset

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Maybe try it without the --reset first to see what it says

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:32 PM

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Wait a second

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—user should be the root user?

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:32 PM

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nope

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your user that is locked out

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:33 PM

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Anything wrong with command?

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Oh wait

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It’s the opposite mb

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Both ways are wrong?

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:36 PM

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You're not typing what I typed

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And I'm using the <username> the way you wanted us to use it

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:37 PM

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yes because my username is long af

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I didn’t want you guys to bother putting my actual username

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Putting <username> will tell me that I should input my username instead of <username>

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:39 PM

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well, you have the command that I gave you, it's up to you to type it correctly 😛

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:39 PM

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Ok lol 😛

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I’ll try your exact input and see what happens

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Aboqassem is the host name

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Wait can you put it like <Aboabdullah> or something to make it more clearer

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Ik I definitely input everything right

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:42 PM

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Show me what you've typed

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:42 PM

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faillock —Aboqassem Aboabdullah

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Should be like this

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If you mean —user as root user

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And username as ofc

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The username

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Ryper gimme an easy to follow password

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Or

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I’ll just usenumbers

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:52 PM

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fading zinc Ryper gimme an easy to follow password

Stop focusing on the password, it's not the problem

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:52 PM

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Then what is actually keeping me from logging in man 😭

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:52 PM

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fading zinc faillock —Aboqassem Aboabdullah

This is wrong and not what I wrote

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:52 PM

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Hyprland?

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:52 PM

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You won't run the commands that we give you to find out

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You're impatient and keep going off on your own trying the same thing over and over and not listening

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:53 PM

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I’m sorry

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My mind is going on circles annoying me about it

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I’m fully accountable for myself and it’s my fault

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 2:55 PM

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Words are words

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Look at the command I gave you and replace <username> with your username, that's it

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 2:57 PM

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Ok

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There we go

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Ok I’m going to calm down

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Take your time man

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 3:00 PM

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Ok, try logging in now

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as your user from a TTY

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:01 PM

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Sudo -su user?

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Or -su username

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Since I’m in root

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 3:01 PM

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No, he means switch to a different tty and log in fresh

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Ctrl+alt+f3

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:01 PM

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f2

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You mean the login gui

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 3:02 PM

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W/e gets you a fresh prompt

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Specifically NOT the GUI

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But I'm heading in to work, so I'm gonna be out for a few hours

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:02 PM

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Wait not the hyprland lockscreen

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 3:11 PM

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No, we're not touching that

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:11 PM

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Ok

autumn lantern Oct 25, 2024, 3:45 PM

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ashen herald No, we're not touching that

this has been resolved. The SDDM configuration he switched to was messed up and refused to launch the desktop environment. Switched to GDM and he's able to login.

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 3:52 PM

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ashen herald No, we're not touching that

Thanks alot for the help

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I truly apologize if I couldn’t follow the exact steps @ashen herald and @winged pier

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 4:51 PM

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fading zinc I truly apologize if I couldn’t follow the exact steps <@140726535610040321> and...

You're good man, you're enthusiastic, and not arguing about stuff, but you are trying to progress very quickly. You gotta walk before you can run, so I would not start trying to rice your experience any time soon.

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 4:52 PM

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oh yeah you're right

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I get very very excited

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I'll do it after 1-3 months

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If that sounds good

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I'll keep hyprland for whenever I'm ready

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Then I'll start ricing

grand cloak Oct 25, 2024, 6:19 PM

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fading zinc I'll keep hyprland for whenever I'm ready

you can use hyprland before ricing

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I didn't rice mine out

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and starting off with a tiling manager isn't meant for later

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you can try off iwth it immediately

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it'll just be different

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 6:20 PM

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grand cloak you can use hyprland before ricing

I can get to hyprland

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but I can see hyprland but nothing appears

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I think first getting used to GNOME and the ui is my first goal

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The second is to customize GNOME

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Third is to get to Hyprland and set it up

winged pier Oct 25, 2024, 8:06 PM

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fading zinc The second is to customize GNOME

Don't spend too long on this bit. If you end up with more than about 5 extensions, it'll be time to look elsewhere

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 8:06 PM

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Ok

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Btw thanks jt for the linux journey

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Or ryper

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Cd .. command is hella useful

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(To get back to the original directory)

ashen herald Oct 25, 2024, 8:12 PM

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I use cd .. and cd - on a daily basis. They show cd ~, but you can just type cd for that. cd . is useless, but both . and .. are useful with other commands

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 8:33 PM

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I need to search what does cd . do

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I have read extensively but as a human I can't retain information fully

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But it's very very useful

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I am thankful that you made me read linuxjourney

grand cloak Oct 25, 2024, 10:14 PM

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fading zinc I need to search what does cd . do

. Is current directory

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 10:15 PM

#

oh

grand cloak Oct 25, 2024, 10:15 PM

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So for example

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If we're in /home/sigma/skibidi

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And we do cd .

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 10:15 PM

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grand cloak If we're in /home/sigma/skibidi

out of all names 💀

grand cloak Oct 25, 2024, 10:16 PM

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We'll end up in /home/sigma/skibidi

fading zinc Oct 25, 2024, 10:16 PM

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lol

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ok

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btw now I'm going to setup obs

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I'll find a yt video since when I had it in windows I could'nt set it up

grand cloak Oct 26, 2024, 4:44 AM

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Oh yeah speaking of

fading zinc Oct 26, 2024, 7:59 PM

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I did but still didn’t set it up yet

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Btw I remember penguin dabbing guy

#Aboabdullah's Arch Install Extravaganza