Clicking Network or Computer icons on LQXT says Feature Unimplemented.

[rancid lily]

Im on arch linux and installe lqxt

The current error i get is "Invalid url address for server.

[trail carbon]

.s q

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[viral fractal]

can you not install networkmanager because you don't have internet?

[rancid lily]

I connected my system to ethernet

with a cable

[rigid wolf]

ping something

to try

[rancid lily]

Temporary failure in name resolution

[rigid wolf]

So you're not connected to internet

[rancid lily]

apparently

but i have my fiber cable into the laptop

[viral fractal]

you still need network software

[rancid lily]

well , how?

[rigid wolf]

Boot on arch USB live and pacstrap

[rancid lily]

i didn't use arch linux before

so i need details

I'm in the terminal right now logged on my user.

[rigid wolf]

mhh,

1. Boot on USB install
2. mount your partitions
3. connect to internet
4. pacstrap /mnt networkmanager networkmanager-applet

[rigid wolf]

something like this

[rancid lily]

how do i do all of those

[rigid wolf]

with the docs

[rancid lily]

uhh

[rigid wolf]

that's the best option

Because you will be able to solve by yourself other issues

[rancid lily]

you need to tell me how to do everything , i don't know anything about arch linux

i just gave it a try on my bucket of a laptop

[rigid wolf]

I don't really have time

just read the "installation guide" everything is explained

or use a distro as debian to begin with Gnu linux

[rancid lily]

the installation guide explains nothing

it tells me to write /etc/hostname and when i do it says command not found

[rigid wolf]

nano is not found ?

[rigid wolf]

[rancid lily]

no it literally says command not found

that guide tells me 1 command that doesnt even work

it doesnt even have a step by step guide or something

[rigid wolf]

You're trying the command from usb live or from the arch chroot ?

[rancid lily]

i opened a terminal from lqxt desktop

im trying in that

[rigid wolf]

/etc/hostname should have been edited already

before installation of lqxt

[rancid lily]

it never asked me that

i have a user set up and the host of the pc

from the installer

and i tried to do sudo /etc/hostname and it says it doesnt find my command

[rigid wolf]

3 is before 4

[rancid lily]

??

i told you that etc hostname isnt working

i don't know how to complete that configuration

what guide is this it doesnt explain anything

[rigid wolf]

it doesn't mean anything, it's a file, it can't not work

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide

read this

and reinstall properly

[rancid lily]

@cyan harbor we can continue here

it basically says it didnt find the packet

but i installed

it

if u know any fixes type them on here

[cyan harbor]

@rancid lily you don't need network manager if you're using iwctl
You only need one more program and it's dhcpcd

[viral fractal]

you don't need dhcpcd if you're using iwd

[rancid lily]

then what do i do

it seems dhcpcd doesnt download

or install when i put the commmand

[cyan harbor]

You do because iwd's built in DHCP client is broken rn

[viral fractal]

oh

use network manager then

[cyan harbor]

Why are you overcomplicating this

[rancid lily]

?

[cyan harbor]

Just boot the live usb, mount your root drive, chroot into it, then do pacman -S dhcpcd and that's it

[rancid lily]

i did what you told me in #tech-general

[cyan harbor]

You don't need network manager at all

[cyan harbor]

Wasn't talking to you

[rancid lily]

oh

idk how to do all of those

[cyan harbor]

You would've done it all during the installation

[rancid lily]

is there a way i can redo the installation?

[cyan harbor]

You shouldn't

[rancid lily]

well then shit

[cyan harbor]

just boot the live usb
Then mount your root drive
Do you know how to do that

[rancid lily]

nope

[cyan harbor]

You aren't screwed in any way

[cyan harbor]

How did you even install arch then
That's like the second step

or wait did you use archinstall?

[rancid lily]

yes i did

[cyan harbor]

Ah okay
Forgot that existed sorry, I'll walk you through it

So
Boot the live usb like you did before

[rancid lily]

i mean idk hoe

how

**

[cyan harbor]

What

[rancid lily]

cuz i get instantly booted into linjx

i don't get time to get into usb boot

[cyan harbor]

Spam f12 during boot

That's usually the way to do it

[rancid lily]

i will , hold on

[cyan harbor]

Depends on your motherboard manufacturer though
There's no standard unfortunately

[rancid lily]

if u can type all the steps it would be great cuz i don't think i'll be able to follow what you say right now , i need to leave in a couple of minutes , will you be available in , let's say 3 hours?

[cyan harbor]

Maybe idk
I'm going out for lunch in like 2 hours
But probably later
Other people here can help too

I'll write it down rn though

[rancid lily]

thanks

for everything

[cyan harbor]

boot live usb
run lsblk
It'll show you all the partitions, look for the ext4 one, there may be 2 depending on what you chose in archinstall, by default it'll have a 20gb root partition so look for that if you don't remember setting the size
when you find it, run mount /dev/NAME /mnt
NAME being what lsblk says the nake is
after that, run ls /mnt to make sure it's the root partition, it'll have /bin, /usr, /opt, etc if it's the root, otherwise it'll have like Downloads or Desktop
If it's not the root partition, unmount it with umount /mnt (not unmount) and mount the correct one

After that, run arch-chroot /mnt
then pacman -S dhcpcd
Then it'll install dhcpcd
Then just exit the chroot environment with ctrl+d or exit
Then reboot

Then go to your actual system and run dhcpcd and it'll work, give it a second to work though

Just press Ctrl+c after a bit since by default it'll run forever

[rancid lily]

i mounted that drive and it says command not found at the arch-chroot

wait , first how do i boot live usb?

if i boot the usb it asks me to go thru the installer

@cyan harbor

idk i did everything

when i pacman it says invalid url

for server

@cyan harbor yo man , if i boot live usb it puts me thru the choices of what to install

Now what do i do? Ah this fucking os

Imma talk to myself since nobody will ever see this post

[lofty knoll]

just choose the first one

[rancid lily]

oh finally someone saw this

okay , hang on

imma follow Jodi's instruction until i fail

[cyan harbor]

Ah sorry I was busy

[rancid lily]

No problem!

I'm not entitled to your time

I'm just trying things

I will follow the things you said until something goes wronf

wrong

Ok i set my 20 gigs partition as /mnt , i ran ls /mnt and tmp is highlighted as green

So i suppose this isn't the one with the root right?

Okay , so everything went fine until i ran /pacman -S dhcpcd

[lofty knoll]

why wouldn't it be

[rancid lily]

idk ,it has tmp highlighted green , im a total beginner to arch

When i ran pacman -S dhcpcd it says invalid url for server

Ran pacman -S dhcpcd and got error. Help!

[lofty knoll]

can you exit chroot & run iwctl

[lofty knoll]

that's probably fine

[rancid lily]

iwctl says my network config is disabled

[lofty knoll]

does it let you continue

[rancid lily]

yep

[lofty knoll]

ok then try station wlan0 connect [wifi name]

[rancid lily]

done

[lofty knoll]

go back to chroot & retry

[lofty knoll]

pacstrap is only for you to run once
it resets a couple of things when you do it again
the next time, you should use pacman --root

[rancid lily]

should i send a pic?

something different happened

this time it didnt give me an error

i think it's ok?

i ran pacman -S dhcpcd again

[lofty knoll]

yeah

[rancid lily]

okie , then what's next?

[lofty knoll]

now um

systemctl enable dhcpcd

[rancid lily]

that pacstrap thingy?

[lofty knoll]

ctrl d

reboot

[lofty knoll]

no

[rancid lily]

okay

rebooted

now let's see

okay , so it rebooted me to the os

should i see if i can access the internet?

From what i understood i needed dhcpcd to install NetworkManager

How should i do that?

[lofty knoll]

wait

try iwctl station wlan0 connect [wifi name]

does that work

[rancid lily]

Succesfully installed dhcpcd. How do i connect to the internet now?

Should i open a terminal?

[lofty knoll]

yeah

[rancid lily]

inside lqxt?

ok

Network Configuration is enabled from what i see

hang on imma try and connect

[lofty knoll]

ok

[rancid lily]

it didnt ask me the wifi's password

hmm

[lofty knoll]

did it connect though

[rancid lily]

i think so

[lofty knoll]

umm

[rancid lily]

i pinged google

[lofty knoll]

try using internet now

[rancid lily]

it works

[lofty knoll]

ok then um

yeah it automatically connects to wifi now

so like

you know

you don't need networkmanager

[rancid lily]

shall i reboot and see?

[lofty knoll]

there's no need

you can just

use internet

and if you reboot it'll work

[rancid lily]

So i don't need that retarded network manager?

[lofty knoll]

right

[rancid lily]

Thank god

[lofty knoll]

yeah

lmao you seem happy to be rid of it

[rancid lily]

Imma keep the post open in case anything happens. Thanks!

[lofty knoll]

you can just make another

[rancid lily]

You have no idea how many days i tried to make this work.

[weak dove]

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[lofty knoll]

oops

... close

[weak dove]

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[rancid lily]

xF

xD

[lofty knoll]

damn that must suck

[lofty knoll]

this is probably your last time having to go through something like this

[rancid lily]

Hmm , it still doesn't work

[lofty knoll]

wdym

[rancid lily]

I opened my OS now and clicked the Network icon and it says feature unimplemented

[lofty knoll]

um

can you just use iwctl station wlan0 connect [network name] any time you need to connect to a different network

[rancid lily]

i'll try

Nope!

doesn't work

Clicking Network or Computer icons on LQXT says Feature Unimplemented.

[regal creek]

hi Sebi, we don't use the word 'retarded' to mean foolish in this server because of its abelist connotations as a derogatory slur against people who are not neurotypical, please don't use it like that 🙂

[rancid lily]

Okay

[lofty knoll]

what?

i'm asking if you're okay with using iwctl to connect to networks

instead of that wifi icon

[rancid lily]

I have no wifi icon

Didnt even know that existed

[lofty knoll]

i mean

the network icon

[rancid lily]

Oh

It doesn't work

[lofty knoll]

yeah but

would you mind just not using it

[rancid lily]

It will be a bit annoying but if there is no other way then sure

[lofty knoll]

if it really bothers you

pacman -S networkmanager systemctl enable --now NetworkManager pacman -Rns dhcpcd systemctl disable iwd

[rancid lily]

do i paste these into a terminal?

[lofty knoll]

that would make it work again

[lofty knoll]

yeah

[rancid lily]

ok

i did all of those

now do i close the terminal

Nope

Doesn't work

[lofty knoll]

sure

[lofty knoll]

what

um

[rancid lily]

Pasted all of those

and ran them

[lofty knoll]

i dont wanna do this anymore then

[rancid lily]

lmao

[lofty knoll]

rebooting would probably fix it

[rancid lily]

i did

it asked me what i want to do with network

i said execute and it still didnt work

[lofty knoll]

idfk

[rancid lily]

It's a torture

[regal creek]

are you doing wifi or are you doing wired?

[rancid lily]

Wifi

[regal creek]

wpa_supplicant installed?

[rancid lily]

what is that?

[regal creek]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wpa_supplicant

[rancid lily]

how do i install this?

[regal creek]

sudo pacman -S wpa_supplicant

are you new to arch?

[rancid lily]

Yup

I did this and it says it's already installed and it updated itself

[regal creek]

can you post screenshots of your trying to get your adapter to work, what commands you're using etc.

[rancid lily]

Um , i don't do those , i mean i have nothing to send screenshots of

It seems that wpa is installed

my internet works and the only problem is that damn icons

[regal creek]

oh so you can connect to wifi just fine, you just can't use a gui of some sort?

[rancid lily]

yup

those computer and network icons from lqxt dont work

says feature unimplemented

[regal creek]

ngl I've never used lqxt

can you link me to the package?

[rancid lily]

i just dont understand why these don't want to open

how do i do that?

[regal creek]

have you installed nm-tray from the aur?

[rancid lily]

bro im a total beginner lmao

what r those

[regal creek]

the aur is the arch user repository, it's not as secure as the main repos

[rancid lily]

do i run pacman for both

[regal creek]

nm-tray is a plugin to get the icons to work I think

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LXQt#Installation

[rancid lily]

how do i install that crap?

[regal creek]

sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nm-tray-git is the package you want.
manual should be something like:

cd ~/Documents

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/nm-tray-git.git

cd nm-tray-git
makepkg -si

Or you can make an aur helper and use that for installing aur packages, but be aware, you should 1) know how to install things from the aur yourself, and 2) be aware of malicious programs, they of course are not generally going to just be labelled as such.

https://ostechnix.com/how-to-install-paru-aur-helper-in-arch-linux/ -this is install guide on installing paru, an aur helper.

@lofty knoll anything to add / any contradictions?

[rancid lily]

uh

how do i run those cd ~/Documents thingies

idk how to make that aur helper or things

how to i run that manual command

[regal creek]

I don't know what you're asking?

[rancid lily]

so i ran your first sudo command

[regal creek]

they're CLI commands if that's what you mean

[rancid lily]

yeah what do i do with those

[lofty knoll]

that looks right to me

[rancid lily]

and how do i get that nm tray

idk how to do use that aur thing

[regal creek]

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/nm-tray-git.git is a cli command

[rancid lily]

what is that

a cli command

[regal creek]

cli means command line interface

terminal

TTY

console

etc.

[rancid lily]

ok and how do i run those commands

i put that in my terminal and it didnt nothing

[regal creek]

type 'ls'

that's lower case L

[rancid lily]

yup

then?

[regal creek]

what does it show you

[rancid lily]

Downloads Desktop etc.

[regal creek]

does it show you nm-tray-git?

[rancid lily]

No

[regal creek]

hm...

[rancid lily]

the only package i have is dhcpcd

[regal creek]

that's how your terminal should look

[rancid lily]

oh

how do i enter documents

with that command

[lofty knoll]

just um
don't do it

it's fine

[regal creek]

and then if you did it right you should see it in ls

I honestly don't know what you mean, show me a picture?

[lofty knoll]

pretty sure sebi is having trouble with the cd Documents part

[rancid lily]

yes

idk how to do those commands from up

[regal creek]

wait you're in as root?

[rancid lily]

yes

[regal creek]

lol, didn't know that

hahahaha

[rancid lily]

lol

[regal creek]

can you log in as a user?

[rancid lily]

yes

and sudo'd myself

[lofty knoll]

before you do that

run pacman -S git

[regal creek]

pretty sure you don't need to do sudo

[regal creek]

should be installed already

[rancid lily]

invalid adress

[lofty knoll]

wdym

[regal creek]

I told them to install base-devel which should include git

[lofty knoll]

https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=base-devel&maintainer=&flagged=

no such thing??

found it

https://archlinux.org/groups/x86_64/base-devel/

it doesn't have git

[rancid lily]

i ran pacman -S git

doesn't work

invalid address

i'm again fucking disconnected

from the internet

hang on

but wait

base devel worked

[lofty knoll]

i think it just used the cache
implying that you already have base-devel

[rancid lily]

and now iwctl doesn't want to start

i love this os so much

from one problem to another 10 problems

[regal creek]

weird, maybe it used to and they removed it?

[lofty knoll]

`systemctl start iwd

echo EnableNetworkConfiguration=true | sudo tee -a/etc/iwd/main.conf

echo [General] | sudo tee -a /etc/iwd/main.conf

sudo pacman -S git

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/nm-tray-git.git

cd nm-tray

makepkg -irs`

should work, i don't wanna explain why

[lofty knoll]

never has been

you got mandela effected

[rancid lily]

tee invalid option

[regal creek]

weird...maybe I'm thinking of another group, or I'm just 100% convinced of something that is totally and utterly untrue

[regal creek]

show us photos please

[regal creek]

you didn't do the whole command

[lofty knoll]

type echo EnableNetworkConfiguration=true | sudo tee -a/etc/iwd/main.conf then press enter

[rancid lily]

oh so it's a whole command?

[regal creek]

yes, each line is a command

[rancid lily]

i mean the way they are structured

[regal creek]

it's edited

[lofty knoll]

now theres 2 newlines after each command

unless theres a big space after it, it's only one command

kbai

[rancid lily]

i think i'm stupid

[regal creek]

then you're in fantastic company

[rancid lily]

did i write this correctly

[regal creek]

nope

-a<SPACE>/

up arrow to recall previous command

easier to edit the command that way

[rancid lily]

okay

but why space between those

you guys typed it without space

Got it , nvm

finally

[regal creek]

this has a space between the -a and the /etc

[rancid lily]

im on mobile

it doesnt look like that to me

failed

and this typed it correctly

[regal creek]

looks like your mirrors are a bit fucked

[rancid lily]

amazing

[regal creek]

but lets be sure

ping archlinux.org

does that work?

[rancid lily]

yep

[regal creek]

interesting

see if it'll let you install reflector?

[rancid lily]

so pacman -S reflector?

[regal creek]

yes

[rancid lily]

nope

it doesn't

[regal creek]

lol

[rancid lily]

all 404's

how do i change these fuckin mirrors

[regal creek]

I'd say easiest way for you would be to go through the iso, mount your OS at /mnt, and then run a reflector command (don't chroot) to replace the mirror list

can I ask what country you're in?

[rancid lily]

Romania

so how do i do all of those

i boot the live usb again?

[regal creek]

reflector -c <COUNTRY> --protocol https --sort rate --save /mnt/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
don't forget to change the <COUNTRY> to your country

from there you may as well do arch-chroot /mnt
and then do pacman -Syyuu
then pacman -S reflector git

[regal creek]

yes

[rancid lily]

and how do i mount my os

[regal creek]

what filesystem did you install it on? ext4? btrfs?

[rancid lily]

ext4

[regal creek]

mount /dev/<PARTITON WITH EXT4> /mnt

[rancid lily]

hmm

it says end kernel panic

[regal creek]

to be clear that mount SPACE /dev/<PARTITON WITH EXT4> SPACE /mnt

[regal creek]

bruh....

[rancid lily]

i love this os so much

[regal creek]

is that from trying to boot up the usb?

[rancid lily]

yes

[regal creek]

I guess reburn the usb

[rancid lily]

no way

[regal creek]

I very strongly suspect either user error or hardware failure

[rancid lily]

im not doing that shit again

honestly i may aswell delete this whole thing

and get another os

this is too much

im sick of linux

already

[regal creek]

out of interest, why did you want to use LQXT instead of something more beginner friendly, like gnome, kde etc.

beginners don't usually start with arch

[rancid lily]

idk , i liked the way it looked

and someone suggested arch to me

[regal creek]

lol

who suggested arch to you?

[rancid lily]

as a lightweight os

i asked somewhere for a lightweight os for my shitty laptop

[regal creek]

it's very light weight, but it's not exactly a beginner friendly OS

[rancid lily]

maybe ubuntu is good?

[regal creek]

I've had a lot of issues with ubuntu myself over the years, and do not recommend it

[rancid lily]

Then what should i do?

I'm sick of this arch linux shit

[regal creek]

a lot of people opt for endeavourOS which is arch based, mint is meant to be beginner friendly but I've never used it, but if you haven't installed or used arch before, I very much recommend doing it in a VM the first couple of times round

[rancid lily]

maybe something that isnt arch?

i hate it tbh

im willing to wipe the slate clean

i may install another arch

but how do i delete this whole thing?

[regal creek]

just mkfs over the partition you installed it on will be the most familiar one for you, but you want your usb to have something on it to replace it

[rancid lily]

my usb currently only has arch linux on it rn

[regal creek]

I mean if the usb won't even boot then yeah, could try it again, but burning a usb shouldn't be difficult

and it doesn't mean you have to reinstall the whole of arch

[cyan harbor]

@rancid lily you won't find anything lighter than arch that's also beginner friendly
I think the few distros as light would be like alpine or debian
Debian is just terrible and alpine isn't designed for desktop use in general

Trust me, arch gets easier the more you use it
Irs frustrating at first but you'll get the hang of it, I generally wouldn't recommend it either but for a shitty laptop it does wonders for preformance

[rancid lily]

someone suggested to me mint

linjx

and i'm already sick of lqxt

[cyan harbor]

Mint is pretty heavy

[rancid lily]

i want to wipe my laptop and install something else

[cyan harbor]

Lxqt is probably the worst de lol
It's very light but super ugly

[rancid lily]

i'm done tbh i wasted days

and it's icons don't work

[cyan harbor]

Maybe try alpine, it's more stable and less buggy
But I haven't used it so idk how good it is for general desktop use, I do know people whove used it and I've been recommended it in the past

If you really don't want to use arch, that's probably a good choice

Mint is Ubuntu based and Ubuntu is already really heavy

[rancid lily]

..close

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