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bad63r

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Registered: 2014-07-06

Posts: 14

[SOLVED]after start i3 i got blackscreen

I installed arch from the arch wiki beginner's guide(as I always do) to the point where i need to install some DE or wm. Everything was ok. I installed i3 with

pacman -S i3 dmenu xorg xorg-xinit

That installation passed fine too. Now i should just edit tilda/.xinitrc. I didn't have tilda/.xinitrc so i followed the wiki and i did:

$ cp /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ~/.xinitrc

. I added

exec i3

to end of tilda/.xinitrc . Also following the wiki i  replaced

/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/?*.sh

with

/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/?*.

in tilda/.xinitrc.After that I did reboot. After reboot  i loged in like normal user(not root) and i did command:

startx

. On display was this picture:   I thoguht it was xterm, but is wasn't. I could move mouse, but nothing else.Whatever i type it wasn't reacting. I know that shortcut for terminal in i3 is mod+enter. I did it. It showed me like top red bar (red line in place of top bar) but i couldn't see anything. I could start dmenu with shortcut mod+d. Also, as you can see, in down left corner u see just a blue spot, no number of container/workspace . I checked tilda/.i3/config and it seems it is ok. I have nouveau drivers.

I checked tilda/.xinitrc permissions and they are all fine. Also i tried to login with gdm and i've got the same display picture like with the xinitrc.
I installed openbox just to see is it maybe up to i3 wm. But same story like with i3. So i guess problem is with me, but i don't know where is my mistake .

I would post tilda/.xinitrc here but i don't know how to import it from arch to windows bcs i'm using windows now as i dual boot.
Others DE(kde,gnome,xfce) working just fine, but i wanted to try something new.
And im using tilda insted of writing it like a character bcs on windows when i press F7=tilda windows starting some search or whatever -.-

My machine is: laptop ASUS K50IN https://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultraboo … fications/

Any help is appreciated

Last edited by bad63r (2015-06-28 10:31:34)

oliver

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Registered: 2007-12-12

Posts: 448

Re: [SOLVED]after start i3 i got blackscreen

can you modify your .xinitrc file so i3 redirects output to a file:

old

exec i3

new

exec i3 > ~/.i3.log 2>&1

Then re-create the problem and take a look at ~/.i3.log

bad63r

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Registered: 2014-07-06

Posts: 14

Re: [SOLVED]after start i3 i got blackscreen

I did what what u told me. But no output error. Btw i checked wiht

ps -A | grep i3

and it shows me that on tty1 i3 is running Now im totally confused . tilda/.i3/log looks fine but i3 is running totally wrong.

bad63r

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Registered: 2014-07-06

Posts: 14

Re: [SOLVED]after start i3 i got blackscreen

I solved the probem! Insted of nouveau drivers I insatlled Nvidia drivers and it works! Just dunno why novuea drivers do not go well with i3...
So u can close this thread . thx to everyone

jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: [SOLVED]after start i3 i got blackscreen

It has nothing to do with the window manager, and everything to do with the video card.

Please remember to mark your thread as [Solved] by editing your first post and prepending it to the title.

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