I tried online looking for help and I found no solution and I don't know what to do, It worked just fine before and when I booted up not too long ago from now this happened.
#Can someone help me with this?
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white sun
have you tried ignoring the error and logging in like normal
like can you still type your username
white sun
what happens when you try
sturdy forge
try what
white sun
to start a DE
sturdy forge
to start a DE
How do I do that if I may ask
white sun
or your display manager if you have one
sturdy forge
or your display manager if you have one
i think i did that and it failed
white sun
How do I do that if I may ask
depends what DE and if it's x or wayland
white sun
i think i did that and it failed
error message?
sturdy forge
depends what DE and if it's x or wayland
I had gnome previously and then installed kde and used x on my user
maybe it messed up the settings
white sun
installing 2 DE's at the same time can cause configuration conflicts
white sun
not sure
do you have a ~/.xinitrc file?
actually you don't really need it
i think you can just type startplasma-x11
sturdy forge
i think you can just type `startplasma-x11`
display is not set or cannot connect to the X server
white sun
okay you do need to use startx
you should have a file ~/.xinitrc with the contents:
export DESKTOP_SESSION=plasma
exec startplasma-x11
if it doesn't exist, then create it
then you can run startx
if you don't have that then sudo pacman -S xorg-xinit
or you can look into re-configuring your display manager
that may be what's broken here
sturdy forge
or you can look into re-configuring your display manager
for that i need to figure out which one i even have right
white sun
yeah
sturdy forge
yeah
would it just make more sense to just reinstall the entire OS since this system is brand new
white sun
it should be sufficient to remove the gnome configuration files