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cybi

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Registered: 2022-03-29

Posts: 9

can't run anything other than gnome-wayland

i accidentally tried sending ctrl-alt-f3 to a vm, which was sent to my host running arch, and now every other de and wm other than gnome won't work

when i try to run gnome x11 it says that the display isn't set, even though it's set as :0
kde is the only other de that works somewhat, on x11 i can see my mouse and open apps with shortcuts, but all i can see is a blank screen apart from the mouse. checking the logs with journalctl it says
"qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found."
uninstalling and reinstalling qt/libxcb doesn't help with this. on wayland it's even weirder, all the colors are extremely saturated so the screen looks blurry, and whenever i click on anything (i.e. the taskbar) it disappears
other qt applications like duckstation are screwed too, where the emulated screen should be it's completely transparent
every other wm/de greets me with a black screen and nothing else, not even a cursor

sorry if this post is a little hard to decipher, i'm bad at english but please, being forced to use gnome is inhumane :<

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 77,256

Re: can't run anything other than gnome-wayland

Let's make it "decipherabler" - post your system journal and xorg log
* sudo journalctl -b
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General
See the 1st link below

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cybi

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Registered: 2022-03-29

Posts: 9

Re: can't run anything other than gnome-wayland

i ran yay and now everything's fine :D

Last edited by cybi (2022-04-19 04:25:26)