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kansas city shuffle

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Registered: 2015-07-20

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Reinstalled Arch, how can I load into command line and bypass LXDM?

I have setup a service to load LXDM on boot, however I am running i3WM but I don't have a terminal emulator installed.

How can I log into command-line and bypass LXDM so I can install a terminal emulator?

phw

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Registered: 2013-05-27

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Re: Reinstalled Arch, how can I load into command line and bypass LXDM?

You can press CTRL+ALT+F1 - CTRL+ALT+F6 to switch between virtual consoles. Usually on the first X would run, but you should be able to use one of the others to login to the command-line.

Raynman

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Registered: 2011-10-22

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Re: Reinstalled Arch, how can I load into command line and bypass LXDM?

The seventh VT is also quite common when using a DM.

I don't know about LXDM, but other DMs offer a 'console login'. And you can always boot into multi-user.target using a kernel parameter: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … _boot_into

Last edited by Raynman (2015-10-02 09:53:24)

kansas city shuffle

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Registered: 2015-07-20

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Re: Reinstalled Arch, how can I load into command line and bypass LXDM?

Figured it out, have to mount with the iso loaded. Cheers!

kansas city shuffle

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Registered: 2015-07-20

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Re: Reinstalled Arch, how can I load into command line and bypass LXDM?

You can press CTRL+ALT+F1 - CTRL+ALT+F6 to switch between virtual consoles. Usually on the first X would run, but you should be able to use one of the others to login to the command-line.

Thanks for this, that's awesome!

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: Reinstalled Arch, how can I load into command line and bypass LXDM?

Or you could specify multi-user target on the kernel line so the DM is not started.

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