Can not open terminal after plugging in a keyboard.

icelord · 2024-06-03 12:04:13

I have been using arch for a few months.

Today I plugged a keyboard into my laptop and proceeded to log in and then startx.

The keys work, the windows and shift still refresh i3 and the enter key logged me in and started x.

So why can I not open a terminal, I opened terminator last night shutdown and stuck in the keyboard today, this has been the first time that my laptop has had a keyboard in her.

seth · 2024-06-03 16:04:18

Please don't paraphrase, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

why can I not open a terminal

What does that mean? With a shortcut? Which shortcut? Does the external keyboard use a different layout from the internal one? Does the internal keyboard still allow you to "open a terminal"? What terminal have you configured? Can you start the process by other means (eg. from a parallel TTY login w/ the proper DISPLAY exported)?
… this kind of stuff…

icelord · 2024-06-03 19:01:06

My bad, My question's format and detail was indeed subpar.

I disconnected the keyboard and am now using the built in laptop keyboard. I am still having the same problem. I don't know if the external keyboard has messed something up, but how can it,
since I have not changed any configs.

I am using Terminator and using the windows for a mod and enter key to open terminal, just like I always have.
I can still use the tty(pre startx).

When using win+d to open programs, terminator will not open, however other programs do open.

icelord · 2024-06-03 19:29:24

I tried to start terminator from the tty and got the error message:

you need to install the python bindings for gobject, gtk and pango to run terminator.

I think I might have uninstalled a 'conflicting' python package or two when installing something.

I could be mistaken but if I recall correctly I think it was a pyinstaller package or something along those lines,
and thought they were pip packages I installed as root, which caused problems a while back.

Can I just reinstall them? or something?

Edit: I installed tor and deleted conflicting packages which I thought were old pip packages I forgot to remove.

Last edited by icelord (2024-06-03 19:45:59)

seth · 2024-06-03 20:19:47

You can just re-install terminator and it should™ drag in all dependencies - though if you haven't "deleted conflicting packages" ignoring dependencies, terminator should™ have protected them.

icelord · 2024-06-04 12:33:24

Thank you, reinstalling solved the issue.

The torbrowser-launcher caused the conflict, this has been the first time I have had a package conflict while installing a program.
What is the usual was to get around this?

seth · 2024-06-04 12:58:47

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

What exact conflict?
Unrelated packages should not conflict and if you run into a package conflict that typically means you've to choose either-or, but

thought they were pip packages I installed as root

that's probably the cause and should no longer be possible anyway.

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Can not open terminal after plugging in a keyboard.

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