startx command not found after installing xterm

[pale wind]

Arch newbie here, my Arch installation [ Arch Linux 6.14.9-arch1-1 (tty1) is only a few days old and I've been trying to set up my KDE Plasma and SDDM. However, my SDDM refuses to run upon systemctl enable --now sddm and I was met with a black screen with a blinking line.

After that incident, I moved to the following commands:

sudo systemctl disable sddm.service
sudo pacman -Rncs sddm
sudo pacman -S sddm
sudo systemctl enable sddm
sudo systemctl enable --now sddm

Only for no progress.

[livid fiber]

systemctl status sddm

[livid fiber]

sudo systemctl enable sddm

systemctl status sddm

[livid fiber]

systemctl start sddm

[pale wind]

Black screen

[livid fiber]

ctrl+alt+fn+f2
systemctl status sddm

[pale wind]

Shortcut doesn't work

F3 instead?

[livid fiber]

ctrl+alt+f2 instead

[livid fiber]

shift+g

[pale wind]

--more--

[pale wind]

mb

[livid fiber]

pacman -S xorg xorg-server xorg-xinit

systemctl restart sddm

systemctl status sddm

[livid fiber]

startx /usr/bin/startplasma-x11

try

[livid fiber]

pacman -Qs nvidia

[livid fiber]

lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D'

[pale wind]

I accidentally pressed a button

[livid fiber]

ctrl+c

lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D'

[pale wind]

Ah okay thank you

[livid fiber]

.aw nvidia

[granite iris]

Nvidia

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Nvidia

[livid fiber]

install the open source drivers, and follow the wiki page

and your problem will be fixed

reboot afterwards

[pale wind]

Command not found

[livid fiber]

click the link

[pale wind]

o

Alright, I'll ping u when there's a prob

Btw thanks for the help

[livid fiber]

before you do that switch to your user and start over from the beginning

[pale wind]

Like the very beginning of this post?

[livid fiber]

login as your user account

not your root account

[pale wind]

Alright

[livid fiber]

systemctl enable --now sddm

[pale wind]

I already got the nvidia open source driver but I'm still following the other steps

[livid fiber]

no

you are trying to start it as the root user

that's not going to work out

[pale wind]

ah

[livid fiber]

please login as your user account and do this

[pale wind]

Alright

Do I have to do the other steps like DRM kernel mode setting?

[livid fiber]

listen to what i am saying and ignore the wiki

[pale wind]

Alright sorry

Enabled

[livid fiber]

systemctl start sddm

[pale wind]

Done

[livid fiber]

picture

[pale wind]

I haven't rebooted

[livid fiber]

systemctl status sddm

[livid fiber]

systemctl stop sddm

ctrl+alt+f1

logout

login to your user account

[pale wind]

Is it supposed to be a black screen? I did the first command

[livid fiber]

reboot

[pale wind]

oh

I'm in..

Thank you so much

[livid fiber]

... solved

[granite iris]

#9742 📣 If there is nothing else that we can do for you, please close this thread by adding "[SOLVED]" to the title.

• You can do this on desktop by clicking the three dots on the top right of the page, and pressing "Edit Post".
• You can also do this on Android / iOS by long tapping your post in the text channel list, and tapping "Edit Post".

Your title should be like so: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/503224329191030787/1039841700417384498/image.png
Thank you

[livid fiber]

@pale wind close this thread

[pale wind]

By the way, if it wouldn't bother to ask; can you run me through what the commands you just did performs?

[livid fiber]

search it up

[livid fiber]

@pale wind

[pale wind]

Alright

[pale wind]

on it