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TheJaava

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Registered: 2021-07-05

Posts: 69

Re: [SOLVED] every window manager I have tried freezes

xterm --display :0

from tty2

xterm: bad command line option "--display"

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] every window manager I have tried freezes

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TheJaava

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Registered: 2021-07-05

Posts: 69

Re: [SOLVED] every window manager I have tried freezes

xterm: cannot load font "..."
followed by blinking cursor that's been going for a minute

TheJaava

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Registered: 2021-07-05

Posts: 69

Re: [SOLVED] every window manager I have tried freezes

Misconfigured?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xmonad … _shortcuts

~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs

import XMonad
import XMonad.Config.Desktop

-- DEFINITIONS --

-- My defaults --
myTerminal	= "alacritty"	-- use alacritty
myModMask	= mod1Mask	-- use alt as mod mask because win key is awkward
myBorderWidth	= 4		-- nice and thicc default border width

-- Startup Hook - Runs when Xmonad starts --

-- Key and Mouse bindings --


main = xmonad defaultConfig
	{ 
		terminal	= myTerminal,
		modMask		= myModMask,
		borderWidth	= myBorderWidth
	}

haven't gotten very far because i don't want to waste my time configing if the system isn't working properly
Edit: typo

Last edited by TheJaava (2021-08-18 04:18:13)

TheJaava

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Registered: 2021-07-05

Posts: 69

Re: [SOLVED] every window manager I have tried freezes

I think I was pressing the wrong keys to open the terminal. I feel kind of stupid for that, but also classes just started so I haven't touched this since my last post. Anyway, alt+shift+enter is the default and I didn't change it in my config. Now I'm posting this from my probook in xmonad. I think I'm going to try and see if sway and wayland will work properly. I haven't had a freeze in a while, but I will not mark it solved until I'm sure that the last thing I did actually worked.