[SOLVED] Blank screen with the mouse cursor

vex · 2023-11-05 23:34:59

Hello to everyone,

I've installed arch using the archinstall guide (i've choosen i3 as desktop manager) and after the reboot everything went fine. I did some changes to i3 and now i found myself after the login screen with a black screen and a mouse cursor.

Btw I have a nvidia card and I've tried to follow this thread but with no success.

Let me know if I have to attach some logs

Last edited by vex (2023-11-06 20:34:59)

seth · 2023-11-06 09:26:12

i3 isn't a desktop manager but a window manager and if it's the only thing running that's exactly what you'll get.
You can use either the i3 config or your session scripts to start some default clients. $mod+Enter will launch a terminal, if you've any of the "i3-sensible-terminal" emulators installed.
All of that is explained in the wiki.

vex · 2023-11-06 11:01:51

seth wrote:

if it's the only thing running that's exactly what you'll get.

This isn't the only thing running. As I said before I've installed the default profile desktop using the script archinstall. The profile contains i3-wm, i3lock, i3status, i3blocks, xterm, lightdm-gtk-greeter, lightdm and dmenu.

Before the reboot, everything was working. I could launch terminals and more.

seth · 2023-11-06 11:31:24

No you didn't say that and it's almost irrelevant what you installed.
I suspect you had some usable i3 config file before and now botched that.
So post the file and then restore what you had before.

vex · 2023-11-06 18:21:13

Here there is the config of i3
http://termbin.com/ihywg

seth · 2023-11-06 19:30:04

set $mod Mod4
exec --no-startup-id dex --autostart --environment i3
exec --no-startup-id xss-lock --transfer-sleep-lock -- i3lock --nofork
exec --no-startup-id nm-applet
exec_always --no-startup-id $HOME/.config/polybar/launch.sh &

You're changing the default modifier to the windows/super/meta key and the only thing that's autostarted next to the black screen and maybe visible is polybar, but you're also invoking that through a local script.
See whether win+enter gets you an xterm and try to run your polybar script from there.

vex · 2023-11-06 20:34:12

I've resolved by removing polybar and inserting again i3status . It was a misconfiguration config file for polybar.

Anyway thanks for the help

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[SOLVED] Blank screen with the mouse cursor

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