[solved] Can't get into arch something about xorg I think

[echo zephyr]

sorry brb

or maybe someone can help with that while I'm afk

[steel rain]

yea ur good

i know network manager commands

[haughty perch]

Do you use wifi or Ethernet

[steel rain]

i connected to wifi

[haughty perch]

And everything works?

[steel rain]

wait nvm

error: failed to add/activate new connection: not authorized to controll networking

[haughty perch]

run it as sudo ig? Iirc to do it as user you need to add yourself to some group

[steel rain]

sudo worked

kinda weird but whatever

[echo zephyr]

so now you need to just install i3 and w/e else you want I guess

you can copy your config from the backup we made

[steel rain]

before or after installing i3?

[echo zephyr]

after

[steel rain]

so pacman -S i3

[echo zephyr]

if I was you, I would do a sudo pacman -Syyuu and reboot to check shit

since it's a fresh install

[steel rain]

ok

k i rebooted

install i3?

[echo zephyr]

yeah

and whatever else you normally use

then copy the config from your backup

[steel rain]

for i3 i should do 1 3 4 5 right?

i mean thats what i did last time

[echo zephyr]

hmm I'm confused what you mean by that

[steel rain]

theres 5 things

like i3 gaps

wm blocks lock and status

[echo zephyr]

oh

well idk just pick the ones you want

[steel rain]

gaps and wm conflict i think

btw what login manager would you recommend

i want lightweight and customizable

[echo zephyr]

lightdm

[steel rain]

ok

[echo zephyr]

yeah gaps conflights with i3wm

[steel rain]

i3 is installed

[echo zephyr]

cuz gaps is a port of i3wm

I use gaps

[steel rain]

do u know how to install lightdm

[echo zephyr]

sudo pacman -S lightdm

I think

been a while

[steel rain]

any setup?

to like make it launch

or whatever

[echo zephyr]

yeah you got to start it

[haughty perch]

Don't Syyuu, it just wastes time and bandwidth
Just do Syu
The difference is that Syyuu fully refreshes mirrors and everything cached about them

[haughty perch]

You also need lightdm-gtk-greeter (or any other greeter)

[echo zephyr]

yes

[haughty perch]

You'd also need to create a custom entry for i3 but that's easy

[echo zephyr]

you need that package too

sorry been a while

listen to jodi now haha

[steel rain]

so sudo pacman -S lightdm-gtk-greeter

then how create custom entry for i3

[echo zephyr]

I don't think you have to do that, I don't remember doing that

[haughty perch]

you just make a file in /usr/share/xsessions/

Maybe arch does create it but I doubt that's the case for standalone window managers

[echo zephyr]

I think the package does it for you

I didn't make any of these

[haughty perch]

Nvm yeah I'm stupid, it lists it under the package

[steel rain]

ok now how put backup thing

[echo zephyr]

it should be the default in lightdm, since you don't have any other wm or de

the backup

you need to mount it

and find the files you want and cp them over

to where they belong

like your i3 config

I don't remember how we made the backup, rsync or cp?

you can rsync the whole thing back if you want

[steel rain]

i think in the end we used rsync

[echo zephyr]

but I recommend picking and choosing what you want

[steel rain]

why

[echo zephyr]

because some config might have broke it to begin with

[steel rain]

well i want all the config files lol

[echo zephyr]

well then you can rsync it back

[steel rain]

so what do i mount it to

username/home?

[echo zephyr]

make a directory to mount it to in your home dir imo

or even /mnt would work

[steel rain]

sdb or sdb1

[echo zephyr]

sdb1

[steel rain]

mount /dev/sdb1 /home?

[echo zephyr]

no

make a dir like /home/user/backup

[steel rain]

o

[echo zephyr]

or /mnt is an option

best bet here imo

do you remember what flags we used for rsync?

[steel rain]

no

[echo zephyr]

probably -aAXv

and --delete

okay

did we backup all of /home or /home/user

[steel rain]

idk

[echo zephyr]

can you cd into the mount

maybe you can just cp the .config file over

cp -r /mnt/ ~/.config

[steel rain]

there was this

it looks like we did /mnt/home/username but we didnt do cp so idk

[steel rain]

I did this

and i did cd into .config and there is nothing there

[echo zephyr]

My bad wrong file path on my part

Okay hold on let me scroll up and see what we did

Probably need to rsync it back

@haughty perch are you familiar with rsync? Can you help here?

I just set up an rsync cron job on my desktop to backup daily but I'm not a pro about rsync

can you cd into /mnt?

and ls and see if the shit is there

[steel rain]

empty

[echo zephyr]

wtf

are you sure it's the right usb?

maybe the backup didn't work man

sorry

at least you got into the system

[steel rain]

wait why would it be in /mnt

[echo zephyr]

if you mounted it there I mean

where did you mount it

[steel rain]

i didnt

uhh

[echo zephyr]

oh

where did you mount it?

[steel rain]

/home/user/backup

all the stuff is there

well its in /home/user/backup/user i guess

[echo zephyr]

okay so you need to move the stuff from .config there to .config here

kinda thing

sorry distracted irl

[steel rain]

can i just move the whole thing

[echo zephyr]

yeah

it's not root so cp should do

sorry I'm super distracted now

just glad you got your shit working again

[steel rain]

so like cp /home/user/backup/user /home?

[echo zephyr]

maybe Jodi can help you here

[steel rain]

then ill prob get duplicates right

[haughty perch]

I don't know much about rsync, I used it at some point but all I did was read the ArchWiki for backups, it tells you a sane default
Though idk, it's kinda useless imo
You might as well just make snapshots at that point, they're easier to restore and take up less space

Personally I just back up my config files, my programming projects, etc to a git repo and the rest I don't care about since it's not unique to me

[echo zephyr]

so anyway with cp -r or rsync you shouldn't get duplicates, it should overwrite w/e is there

[haughty perch]

Idk what you want me to help with, it seems like you already backed everything up and just need to restore it now
It's as simple as just moving the files

[echo zephyr]

he has a backup

that we made with rsync

for his home dir, user

wants to copy it back over

[haughty perch]

What's the issue though

what's stopping you from copying it

[echo zephyr]

his system was borked before, he doesn't know how to copy it back

[haughty perch]

Well do you have access to the files

[steel rain]

so do I cp -r /home/user/backup/user /home/ or cp -r /home/user/backup/user /home/user

[echo zephyr]

now system is fixed, and wants to copy it back

second one I think

[steel rain]

and it will like replace the user

[echo zephyr]

what does it show in your backup

[steel rain]

with user with all the stuff

[steel rain]

user

and if i cd into user thers like downloads etc

[echo zephyr]

it won't delete anything that wasn't in the backup, just what is already there with the same name will be overwritten

[steel rain]

so the new user will be overwritten cuz they have the same name

which is good

[echo zephyr]

well ideally you just wanna override configs or w/e you wanna save

anyway it should be fine

might need to fix permissions later, but I doubt it

[steel rain]

is the copying gona take as long as the rsync

[echo zephyr]

Probably

Probably longer

If I can remember how to rsync it back, would be faster

Probably the same command but backwards

With th3 file path

Check rsync man page

Or search this thread for rsync

[steel rain]

ima just wait for the cp

and see what happens

ok its done

the config files arnt there

wait no they are

i think they duplicated tho

if i do ls there is backup and user

within backup there is user again

[echo zephyr]

hmm

[steel rain]

and within that user is also all the stuff

[echo zephyr]

need to get the file path right

[steel rain]

i mean

wait within the user is the user and backup

lmao

[echo zephyr]

lol

well where are the files

you need to be careful with that part

[steel rain]

2 instances of them

one is in user/backup/user

and the other is in user/user

[echo zephyr]

well now you just need to backup but your system is working, you should mark this as solved imo

you can figure that part out surely

all your files are still there in the usb

just need to move them to your laptop

[steel rain]

[solved] Can't get into arch something about xorg I think

I dont have wifi rn but I will try to copy the files in the right place

thank you so much for your time

[echo zephyr]

No problem and good luck

Open a new thread if you have another issue

[shy valley]

Sorry, I missed a lot. Did you reinstall Arch? I'm confused