Installed Flatpak. now KDE is only a cursor

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I had this issue but not with flatpak, I was able to launch into linux-fallback have you tried that?

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Another thing i did before installing was making sure that bash immediatly opens fish

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How do you do that again?

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reboot and you should be able to boot into it

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Alr lemme check

Advanced options?

Fallback initramfs. Is that what i run?

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nah it should just be a menu that shows up on screen when your pc turns on

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Yeah in grub

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yeah

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do advanced options then

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yeah fallback that one

my interface is very different

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Alr i clicked it

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I have nothing of grub skins and such. I just installed arch

Cld also be GZDoom that screwed me over

Alright im jn. Do i just login?

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Yeah login like normal see if it works

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Alright

Nope, now theres nothing

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hm that worked for me

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Should i startup in shell?

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Yeah startup in shell

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Cursor is back

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Alright

In fallback or normal since both will work

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normal

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Alr

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fallback just skips the autodetect hook so its like a default configeration

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There im using shell now

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how did you install flatpack?

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Pacman -S flatpak

As said in the flatpak site for arch

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open the pacman logs

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How? <im new to linux

Well arch linux

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its located in /var/log/pacman.log

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Oki

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make sure to open it as a sudo user

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Oki

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Just realised you cant copy the text out cus ur in shell

hmm

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Im scrolling to the bottom and ill take pics

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just look for any errors or warning

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Oki

Transaction completed

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also you could try sudo pacman -S xorg && reboot

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Ill try after chdckin logs

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Only thing i found that mifht be problem

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Shouldnt be

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Run this command

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Ill do ur cmd

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Seems like a display server issue

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Do sudo rm /var/lib/pacman/db.lck

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Oki

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Then run the command again

If pacman is interuppted it sometimes stays locked

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Do i do all?

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Can you try get a clearer pic?

turn your screen away from windows and lights

too much glare

Also you have the same laptop as me lol

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Asus f15?

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press enter

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yeah

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Alr

Now it doin stuff

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Seems like your xorg got fucked

Do you know what xorg is?

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Nope

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Press enter

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So Xorg is a display server, it allows you to use mouse and keyboard to interact with GUIs

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Ohh oki

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Its basically what turns linux from CMD line based into a desktop environment

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bruh

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Cldnt resolve host for all

Shld i try wayland?

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Take pic again so I can read first

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@cunning dust il let @oak turret take over

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No, try to fix xorg.I switched from kde to hyprland, thats why im using wayland.

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Ah

Hyprland seems cool tho

But is it easy?

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wait the problem is couldnt resolve host, am I right?

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Yeah

tried to update xorg but it cant resolve the hosts

It can find the package update tho

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Yup

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yea, thats prolly cuz of the mirrorlists

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@cunning dust open etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

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Well it can be easy, but using it for the first time is like jumping in a frozen lake

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I wanna try it

Theres no important stuff on arch either way

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Alr

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well, but I am not sure if that fixes your flatpack stuff (I have never used flatpack) Im only using, pacman/Aur/pacstrap and git clone

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Im not gonna use it now eitherway

Seeing as it nuked xorg

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What were you trynna do with flatpak?

please dont say steam

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Had that already

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ah okay

yeah flatpak can break things really easy

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Yea not using it anymore fuck that

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you have mirrors so lets update them and try fix xorg again

do pacman -Syyu

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Might switch to hyprland but ok

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You can if you want

just usefull to know how to fix stuff

sudo pacman -Syyu

refreshes the package list

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hmmm

do ping 8.8.8.8 just to make sure your connection is working

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Welp it doesnt work. My wifi got fuckdd too

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Probs should have checked that

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Im so close to grabbing my arch usb and just reinstalling

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I mean if you want too

connecting to internet through terminal is pretty easy

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Fuck it. I had nothing important

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I gtg to work though

im sure @oak turret can help you out

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Yup, have fun bud

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Im gonna do archinstall im not doing the showbiz again without help

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Welcome to arch

shit breaks

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It took me an entire night to get arch installed

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well now you know what to do itl be quicker next time

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lmao yea I totally feel that (I experienced that shit too)

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I totally forgot it

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When I first installed arch I had to do it 5 times cus I kep messing stuff up

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I started midnight and got done at fucking 8 am

[oak turret]

😭

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Same, I watched a vid. How to install arch (the hard way)

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And then i absolutely forgot how to do it

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arch-install ftw

Work smarter not harder

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I shldve done that

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You can give hyperland a go, I dont like ricing my install so I just use plasma

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Everyone told me not to, cuz they told me to be a noob so I did it the hard way lmao

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Anyways im going to work cya, @cunning dust you might aswell delete this thread seing as the issue wasnt fixed

but im betting it was just a bad xorg