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Silex89

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From: Osorno, Los Lagos - Chile

Registered: 2011-10-16

Posts: 179

GNOME Shell and Cinnamon won't load... GTK+ Related version

Hi there dear Archers!

Here's the deal: I've been using KDE as my only graphical environment for several months now; I want to try out something different but I don't want to really stop using KDE right away; I thought to give a try GNOME Shell first because my desktop layout with KDE does look like GS in some ways and metaphors; so I tried to install it by issuing pacman orders but when I try to start it, it would only show a black screen and the mouse cursor, nothing else...

Cinnamon has the same issue and I couldn't find anything on the web that was related to the setup I have and the hardware I'm running. I have global menus enabled for all my apps and I just remembered that in order to make GTK apps to work with a Qt global menu through D-Bus, I had to compile an Ubuntu-patched version of both GTK2 and GTK3 (these versions are drop in placement for the vanilla GTK versions that Arch has in the repos). Can this cause a problem when trying to execute the shells?

I'm running my KDE session in a Sony VAIO, AMD Richland APU with 4 cores, AMD Radeon HD8610G (with the open source driver AMD driver). My KDE session works great with all the fancy effects active.

If you need more info, don't hesitate asking; please point me in the right direction in giving you more info if I have to look in logs or something.

Thanks in advance.

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cris9288

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Registered: 2013-01-07

Posts: 348

Re: GNOME Shell and Cinnamon won't load... GTK+ Related version

Well, I would take a look at your journal. If you change to a tty before you log in you can enter

journalctl -f

to follow the output of journalctl. This gives you a lot of extra output so you might want to look into different options you can pass. In any case, get back to your display manager and log in to gnome or cinnamon. I'm not sure if there are any services that KDE enables that might conflict with GNOME, but you might want to have a look at enabled services using systemctl. I know that when I switched from i3 to gnome shell I had to disable my xcompmgr service (doesn't really need to be a service anyways) or else GNOME wouldn't start. Can you try installing the vanilla gtk packages and logging in to GNOME?