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#1 2022-10-09 17:27:49
- caucasianhamburger
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kde plasma black screen after adding second monitor
greetings
I am on a fresh install of arch and i got everything working with minor hiccups and then i installed kde plasma it worked fine, then i added my second monitor to plasma before informing the rest of my pc that there was a second monitor, everything is now broken, any attempts to revert plasma settings to defaults have failed, i tried reinstalling plasma, xorg, and xf86-video-nouveau
i ran the below command
rm -rf .kde/share/config/plasma-*
but no matter what i have done plasma loads the login screen fine, but after i log in it's just a black screen with my cursor
any solution solution other than reinstalling arch?
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#2 2022-10-09 18:37:48
- V1del
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Re: kde plasma black screen after adding second monitor
Remove ~/.local/share/kscreen, consider installing the prop driver in place of nouveau
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#3 2022-10-09 18:53:09
- caucasianhamburger
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Re: kde plasma black screen after adding second monitor
the problem persists
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#4 2022-10-09 19:29:39
- V1del
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Re: kde plasma black screen after adding second monitor
After a "breaking" log in switch to a different VT and post
sudo journalctl -bOffline
#5 2022-10-09 19:50:16
- caucasianhamburger
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Re: kde plasma black screen after adding second monitor
how do i access a pastebin from my currently GUI-less PC
(i am communicating from a chromebook)
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#6 2022-10-09 19:52:11
- caucasianhamburger
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Re: kde plasma black screen after adding second monitor
oh i see
give me a minute
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#7 2022-10-09 19:52:53
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Re: kde plasma black screen after adding second monitor
wait nevermind no i dont
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#8 2022-10-09 21:06:44
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Re: kde plasma black screen after adding second monitor
if its too hard without ctljournal i can just reinstall arch, i dont have anything that im afraid of losing i just didnt want to go through the install process again
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#9 2022-10-09 21:09:29
- V1del
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Re: kde plasma black screen after adding second monitor
What's confusing?
sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st should return a link you can post here granted you have a network connection
There's nothing that can be done based solely on your description, if it was just a matter of incorrect screen config being saved then removing the kscreen folder will have "fixed" that. If your actual issue is due to something else chances it will return after a reinstall are high if you don't find the actual cause
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#10 2022-10-09 21:26:27
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Re: kde plasma black screen after adding second monitor
the confusing bit is that i am mentally slow
here's the link http://0x0.st/otel.txt
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#11 2022-10-09 22:42:26
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Re: kde plasma black screen after adding second monitor
it worked fine before i messed with the screen config
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