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Desktop environment

Postby flibbers » Thu Sep 19, 2024 8:49 pm

I have installed arch on my Lenovo C330 chromebook but i can't get a desktop manager to work, if anyone would have any instructions or a guide on how to do so it would be a greatly appreciated. I would prefer a tiling manager with minimal configuration to use
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Re: Desktop manager

Postby solskogen » Fri Sep 20, 2024 10:54 am

What problems do you have?
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Re: Desktop manager

Postby flibbers » Fri Sep 20, 2024 8:54 pm

So i have bspwm installed with sxhkd and typing startx into terminal doesn't do anything and makes it so i can't type anything (even in a different terminal) and typing bspwm into console it replies:
The server closed the connection: can't parse display string.
I can't seem to find anything on that specific error. I do have mesa installed as well.
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Re: Desktop environment

Postby flibbers » Fri Sep 20, 2024 11:30 pm

FIXED IT
after doing echo $DISPLAY
it returned nothing so doing
DISPLAY=:0
it worked now I just need to configure it :D
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Re: bspwm on a Lenovo Chromebook c330 [FIXED]

Postby flibbers » Sat Sep 21, 2024 2:56 pm

HOW I FIXED IT
because I know in 15 years someones gonna do something like this
when doing sudo pacman -S bspwm
if you accept it'll give you some optional dependencies such as sxhkd (install that one) and another one which i forgot BUT it'll tell you, And if thine screen is cluttered with a bunch of kernel text that doesn't really do anything but make life hard do sudo dmesg -n 1 and it'll save you so thats how I fixed it then start started working
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Re: Desktop environment

Postby ikarm » Wed Nov 20, 2024 10:20 am

I installed Archlinuxarm for Raspberry Pi4 following the instructions on this site. After that I installed xorg group and xorg-xinit. After copying xinitrc to my local directory as .xinitrc, I tried the command startx, but it failed with the following error: xinit: unable to connect to X server: connection refused. I have searched for an answer, but so far I have not been able to find one. Any help would be appreciated.
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