I just copied a bunch of my settings from my old laptop to my new one...to include all of my lightdm themes and configs...I thought everything was fine, but after my first reboot I get a blank screen with an underscore in the top left...and I can't even ctrl-alt-f2 or some other thign to open another terminal session. Am I stuck? What log would show me the failure here if I boot from USB and chroot into my system?
#I think lightdm is preventing me from even booting my system
jolly falcon
I'm using the lightdm-gtk-greeter theme with some mods.
I'm not sure it's even lightdm, but at one attempt I got this error: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=277243 and that pointed me to lightdm being the problem, which is what I had just worked on.
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@jolly falcon sudo pacman -S ly
sudo systemctl disable lightdm
sudo systemctl enable ly
reboot
jolly falcon
is this intended to switch me permanently or just give me an opportunity to fix lightdm?
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is this intended to switch me permanently or just give me an opportunity to fix ...
up to you 
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will it automaatically detect i3?
yes, also try it and see
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xauth command failed?
What's in Xorg's log? What are the permissions on your user's /home and on their .Xauthority?
Have you tried moving the .Xauthority and letting X write a new one?
jolly falcon
yes, also try it and see
ohhh I copied some of my x settings from old system maybe permissions are broke....
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ohhh I copied some of my x settings from old system maybe permissions are broke....
remake it
check ls -l ~/.Xauthority
It should be owned by you.
f not, run sudo chown user ~/.Xauthority
jolly falcon
f not, run `sudo chown user ~/.Xauthority`
it was owned by me, but it had no rw permissions...I just deleted it and it's not recreating it...is there a command to trigger a remake of that?
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Have you tried moving the .Xauthority and letting X write a new one?
@jolly falcon
xauth generate :0 .trusted
jolly falcon
xauth is not a command...I must not have it installed
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pacman -S xorg-xauth
jolly falcon
ok installing that lets me log in with ly...but it goes to the _ in the top right corner again...so there must be a problem elsewhere now.
I can ctrl-alt-f3 now though
it's very possible my i3 config stuff is broken from copying from old machine...I'll dig into that now...thanks for gettng me this far
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it's very possible my i3 config stuff is broken from copying from old machine......
type i3 and see if that works
jolly falcon
k, just a sec...rebooting
I may have to finish this tomorro it's late
rebooting I get blank screen and no _ in corner...that's progress...I'll finish this tomorrow hopefully
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rebooting I get blank screen and no _ in corner...that's progress...I'll finish ...
your config is broken
also consider moving to sway
jolly falcon
Instead of i3? I'm so used to i3
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sway is a wayland fork of i3
meaning, that your current i3 config works on sway
@jolly falcon
jolly falcon
Ahh. What's the difference then?
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being on wayland instead of x11
jolly falcon
Ohhh.. What are some of the problems if run into compatibility wise with wayland... I thought about it
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such as?
jolly falcon
I do a lot of graphics work and programming. Blender, unreal engine, flight sim (xplane) using an nvidia 4080.
jolly falcon
I'll definitely look into it. Especially if it's less drama than x
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also xwayland
Xwayland is an X server that runs under Wayland and provides compatibility for native X11 applications that are yet to provide Wayland support.
@jolly falcon
jolly falcon
Oooh I see
New laptop new horizons. I'll start reading into it tomorrow. I gotta get to bed. Thanks for the help though!
I may ping you tomorrow if that's ok? I don't want to mark this resolved until I'm up again
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The use of Xwayland is enabled by default in sway