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mightysilentsaint

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Registered: 2017-11-14

Posts: 11

[SOLVED]Package issues with i3 and weird display problem related to i3

typing

sudo pacman -Syy i3

gives this output:

[root@mssHost /]# sudo pacman -S i3
:: There are 5 members in group i3:
:: Repository community
   1) i3-gaps  2) i3-wm  3) i3blocks  4) i3lock  5) i3status

Enter a selection (default=all): 
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
warning: removing 'i3-wm' from target list because it conflicts with 'i3-gaps'

Packages (4) i3-gaps-4.15.0.1-2  i3blocks-1.4-6  i3lock-2.10-1  i3status-2.12-1

Total Download Size:   0.41 MiB
Total Installed Size:  1.77 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 

as you can see it says "warning: removing 'i3-wm' from target list because it conflicts with 'i3-gaps'" and when i confirm and install the packages and add the

exec i3

to the ~/.xinitrc file, i go and type

startx

in tty i get greeted with a corrupted looking screen.

i have

xorg-server, xorg-xinit, mesa, lib32-mesa, xf86-video-intel

packages installed. i've been using the same package configuration for 3 years with my arch xfce install and had no problems. any ideas how i can fix this?

my system is:
intel pentium k g3258@4.4ghz stable oc
intel haswell gt1 igpu
2x4gb corsair vengeance 9 9 9 24 1600mhz
msi h81m-p33

but i don't think it is related to my hardware because it does the exact same thing in a vm. i can create terminals with super+enter, but it looks really weird and unusable.

EDIT: Solved it. Forgot to install fonts, damn.

Last edited by mightysilentsaint (2018-07-07 18:27:08)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED]Package issues with i3 and weird display problem related to i3

pacman -Qs font

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