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nycelase

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Registered: 2022-07-27

Posts: 6

[SOLVED] unable to open any terminal

i was trying to mess around and try to kind of rice my computer. i was trying to follow what this user did. i was trying to install picom and make my terminal transparent. after installing and editing the config file i put

exec picom

at the end of my zshrc. now whenever i try to launch my terminal it doesnt let me type anything and its just a empty screen.

i have tried to go to tty2 and solve it but even that doesnt launch.

i am running i3 with oh my zsh and my terminal is kitty if any of that helps.

Last edited by nycelase (2024-02-22 10:07:19)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,104

Re: [SOLVED] unable to open any terminal

your zshrc is generally the absolutely wrong place for this, and "exec" will replace the terminal that's supposed to start with the process your "execing" hence every time you try to open a terminal instead of opening a terminal you're starting picom.

Log in with the root user and remove this from your zshrc. If you root user is similarly fucked for whatever reason, use a live disk or boot with init=/usr/bin/bash or so.

Once you fixed this, the proper way to start  picom is adding to your .xinitrc (and not as the last line since the last line should be starting i3 I assume)?

picom -b

which will start it in the background (... or even start it as part of the i3 initialisation)  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Picom#Usage and https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xinit#xinitrc

Last edited by V1del (2024-02-22 10:22:21)

nycelase

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Registered: 2022-07-27

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] unable to open any terminal

Thanks a lot it works now!