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jasaleja

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Intalled LXDM and Openbox can't access terminal

I am a total newbie at this but managed to install arch without any big problems on my laptop. Now i wanted to add a graphical enviroment and I did these steps:
1)Installed xorg
2)Installed intel drive
3)Installed LXDM display manager
4)Installed Openbox
5)systemctl enable lxdm

Now when my system starts i get a login screen, and when i login i just get a blue desktop backgroudn and nothing around or in it.
How can i access the terminal? I tried CTRL+ALT+F1,2,3,4,5,6 and i tried CTRL+ALT+T and some more combinations but the terminal just doesn't show up?

ackt1c

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Re: Intalled LXDM and Openbox can't access terminal

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jasaleja

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Re: Intalled LXDM and Openbox can't access terminal

Rightc click doesn't work on mine touchpad. It seems i didn't set it up right. Do I setup the touchpad in the xorg?

Last edited by jasaleja (2014-12-05 17:25:49)

karol

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Re: Intalled LXDM and Openbox can't access terminal

Try https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/To … 2C_etc..29

alex.theoto

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Re: Intalled LXDM and Openbox can't access terminal

Rightc click doesn't work on mine touchpad.

Is your right click have dead switch or synaptics doesn't recognize it?
Try the Right  click keyboard to see if it works.
Take a look here to configure synaptics.

drcouzelis

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Re: Intalled LXDM and Openbox can't access terminal

Alternatively, just edit the "~/.config/openbox/rc.xml" file and change the mouse / keyboard bindings to whatever you want.

karol

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Re: Intalled LXDM and Openbox can't access terminal

Alternatively, just edit the "~/.config/openbox/rc.xml" file and change the mouse / keyboard bindings to whatever you want.

That requires accessing the terminal or a GUI editor. We don't know if OP can do that.

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drcouzelis

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Re: Intalled LXDM and Openbox can't access terminal

That requires accessing the terminal or a GUI editor. We don't know if OP can do that.

EVERY suggestion in this thread requires accessing the terminal or a GUI editor!

I may have misunderstood the problem. Are you looking for a long term solution of how to use Openbox with a single button mouse (which is what I assumed)? Or are did you accidentally "lock" yourself out of your computer by automatically starting a display manager and now can't access a terminal window? If that's the case, just boot from the Arch Linux medium you used to install it in the first place and edit whatever you need to edit.

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karol

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Re: Intalled LXDM and Openbox can't access terminal

That requires accessing the terminal or a GUI editor. We don't know if OP can do that.

EVERY suggestion in this thread requires accessing the terminal or a GUI editor!

Yup. Sorry for being terse and quoting your post was misleading.
I noticed OP didn't say if he can access the terminal or an editor, so every suggestion so far may be worthless.

If OP boots the computer, logs in the DM and can't access the terminal, he should try switching to another tty before logging in.
If that's not possible, he can use either a liveCD/liveUSB or try using the bootloader to get to the tty.

jasaleja

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Re: Intalled LXDM and Openbox can't access terminal

Thanks for the replies. I just booted liveUSB and uninstalled the LXDM. Now I will try to setup right click. The touchpad worked on Windows so i think it's not a dead switch.