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mkemorgn

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Registered: 2021-01-08

Posts: 14

[SOLVED] Can't get qtile to launch

I installed qtile in accordance with the Arch wiki.  and using qtile's installation on their website. 

I don't have a display manager installed.  I intend to have qtile launch automatically.  Currently I have dwm launching automatically. 

This is my .xinitrc

#!/bin/sh

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap

# merge in defaults and keymaps

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then







    xrdb -merge $sysresources

fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f "$userresources" ]; then







    xrdb -merge "$userresources"

fi

if [ -f "$usermodmap" ]; then
    xmodmap "$usermodmap"
fi

# start some nice programs

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ] ; then
 for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/?*.sh ; do
  [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
 done
 unset f
fi


nitrogen --restore &
picom &
exec dwm

I tried to substitute dwm with qtile but when I started up all I had was my background.  No commands would work.

Last edited by mkemorgn (2021-01-09 18:56:26)

mkemorgn

Member

Registered: 2021-01-08

Posts: 14

Re: [SOLVED] Can't get qtile to launch

Nevermind it works. It just launches on a screen I wasn't using by default. I substituted dwm with qtile in the .xinitrc