Problem after installing hyprland on arch | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

urban fox Sep 11, 2023, 5:13 PM

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what do you mean exactly? like you have a graphical prompt to put in your username/password but it doesn't accept it?

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or are you just in a TTY

hallow cove Sep 11, 2023, 5:13 PM

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no

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after installation i reboot the system, its a graphical login, not a prompt

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there's my name, i put the password that i chose but it wont let me in, screens turn into black and then it doesnt say like wrong password

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it just dont let me in

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Problem after installing hyprland on arch

urban fox Sep 11, 2023, 5:15 PM

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i suspect this is a problem with your display manager

hallow cove Sep 11, 2023, 5:16 PM

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maybe its my nvidia card

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i tought that but i didnt find a solution to fix it

urban fox Sep 11, 2023, 5:16 PM

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oh, i think there is a specifc version of hyprland you should use if you have an nvidia card

hallow cove Sep 11, 2023, 5:16 PM

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arch is working awesome with default kde/gnome/xfce4

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but it doesnt work with hypr

urban fox Sep 11, 2023, 5:16 PM

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have you tried starting hyprland from a TTY instead of using the display manager?

hallow cove Sep 11, 2023, 5:17 PM

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i dont know how to

urban fox Sep 11, 2023, 5:17 PM

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press Ctrl + Alt + F2

hallow cove Sep 11, 2023, 5:17 PM

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should i install must a minimal version of arch for doing this?

urban fox Sep 11, 2023, 5:17 PM

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urban fox press `Ctrl + Alt + F2`

you should see a text login prompt

hallow cove Sep 11, 2023, 5:18 PM

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i mean

urban fox Sep 11, 2023, 5:18 PM

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hallow cove should i install must a minimal version of arch for doing this?

you shouldn't need to reinstall

hallow cove Sep 11, 2023, 5:18 PM

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now i have installed gnome

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are you sure i can try?

urban fox Sep 11, 2023, 5:18 PM

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do you still have hyprland installed?

hallow cove Sep 11, 2023, 5:18 PM

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no

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it doesnt work

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oh i got you

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if i make that combination

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in the wrong hypr installation

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a prompt should open right?

urban fox Sep 11, 2023, 5:19 PM

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in any linux installation, using ctrl alt F<n> where n is 1-7 or something like that will switch to different TTYs

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usually your graphical session is in TTY1

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switching to another one will just give you a raw terminal

hallow cove Sep 11, 2023, 5:20 PM

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ill try

urban fox Sep 11, 2023, 5:20 PM

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if you wanna try hyprland then install hyprland-nvidia from the AUR

hallow cove Sep 11, 2023, 5:20 PM

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oh

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is that a package?

urban fox Sep 11, 2023, 5:20 PM

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it's an AUR package yeah

hallow cove Sep 11, 2023, 5:20 PM

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just sudo pacman -S

urban fox Sep 11, 2023, 5:20 PM

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no

hallow cove Sep 11, 2023, 5:20 PM

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oh

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so git

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thanks

urban fox Sep 11, 2023, 5:21 PM

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git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/hyprland-nvidia.git
cd hyprland-nvidia
makepkg -si

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or use an aur helper like yay or paru

hallow cove Sep 11, 2023, 5:30 PM

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i runned makepkg

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but im in gnome

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ill try to launch it now

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what should i run now

urban fox Sep 11, 2023, 5:35 PM

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did you do makepkg -si or just makepkg?

hallow cove Sep 11, 2023, 5:35 PM

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i made it

urban fox Sep 11, 2023, 5:36 PM

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urban fox did you do `makepkg -si` or just `makepkg`?

which one did you do

hallow cove Sep 11, 2023, 5:36 PM

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makepkg

urban fox Sep 11, 2023, 5:36 PM

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i would just run makepkg -si again

hallow cove Sep 11, 2023, 5:36 PM

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ok

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then?

urban fox Sep 11, 2023, 5:36 PM

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this will make sure you have all the required dependencies, shouldn't rebuild it because it's already made, and it will install it for you

hallow cove Sep 11, 2023, 5:37 PM

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pacman -U tar.zst?

urban fox Sep 11, 2023, 5:37 PM

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you don't need to do that

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if you used -si

hallow cove Sep 11, 2023, 5:38 PM

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i did

urban fox Sep 11, 2023, 5:38 PM

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ok it's installed now

hallow cove Sep 11, 2023, 5:38 PM

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in fact it told me its already installed

urban fox Sep 11, 2023, 5:38 PM

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you can just switch to tty2, login, and try running Hyprland

hallow cove Sep 11, 2023, 5:39 PM

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but

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its just a terminal

urban fox Sep 11, 2023, 5:39 PM

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yeah

hallow cove Sep 11, 2023, 5:39 PM

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you mean the command_

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?

urban fox Sep 11, 2023, 5:39 PM

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login and type Hyprland

hallow cove Sep 11, 2023, 5:39 PM

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oh ok

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thanks

urban fox Sep 11, 2023, 5:39 PM

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👍

hallow cove Sep 11, 2023, 5:43 PM

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it failed and this is the log

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maybe i got it

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it looks its incompatible with xorg and x11

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so maybe i should try to do this on a minimal arch installation to fix it

urban fox Sep 11, 2023, 5:47 PM

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hyprland is a wayland WM

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it doesn't use xorg

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except for compatability with xorg applications using xwayland

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i'm not sure what's causing this error

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wayland and nvidia are known to not work very well together in general

hallow cove Sep 11, 2023, 5:48 PM

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oh

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i like gnome

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it could be ok but

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i would like a much looking terminal

urban fox Sep 11, 2023, 5:49 PM

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what do you mean

hallow cove Sep 11, 2023, 5:49 PM

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with colors customization and

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opacity

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those stuff

urban fox Sep 11, 2023, 5:49 PM

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you can install the same terminal that hyprland uses

hallow cove Sep 11, 2023, 5:50 PM

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its like kitty

urban fox Sep 11, 2023, 5:50 PM

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yes

hallow cove Sep 11, 2023, 5:50 PM

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but i dont know how to make a config file for it

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im kinda a noob linux user

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thanks btw

#Problem after installing hyprland on arch