#[SOLVED] dwm just doesnt load

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cosmic prairie
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I installed arch on a VM and I was trying to install dwm. Also setted up the .xinitrc but it doesn't really work. If I write exec dwm in directly to the terminal it just logs me out.

modest dew
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@cosmic prairie did you compile it?

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and is it in .config?

cosmic prairie
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with the makeconfig file?

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Yes

modest dew
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sudo make clean install

cosmic prairie
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I did that

modest dew
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photo of the output please

cosmic prairie
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the compile?

modest dew
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yes

cosmic prairie
modest dew
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pacman -S ly

cosmic prairie
modest dew
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sudo systemctl enable ly

cosmic prairie
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what is ly?

modest dew
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show me your .xinitrc

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ly is a display manager

cosmic prairie
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I alredy installed lightdm

cosmic prairie
modest dew
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@cosmic prairie remove all of the last bottom ones

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and add your startups then exec dwm

cosmic prairie
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you mean like this?

modest dew
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and twm

cosmic prairie
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well I think it just started working

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thanks for your help

modest dew
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do you have any patches?

modest dew
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... solved

split timberBOT
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modest dew
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@cosmic prairie

cosmic prairie
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yeah?

cosmic prairie
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ohh yeah

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[SOLVED] dwm just doesnt load