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lonk

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Registered: 2024-07-02

Posts: 2

Black screen with cursor on boot

After installing a custom login screen, instead of showing it it just shows a black screen on both of my monitors with a cursor. Is there any way to somehow change the login screen back to default?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Black screen with cursor on boot

Please don't paraphrase, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855
What is "login screen"?

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ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,638

Re: Black screen with cursor on boot

You should be able to get to a console with Ctrl-Alt-F2 (also try with F3 through F6)
Log in and fix it from the shell

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lonk

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Registered: 2024-07-02

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Re: Black screen with cursor on boot

Please don't paraphrase, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855
What is "login screen"?

I use KDE Plasma as a graphical interface and I selected a custom login screen from settings.

Last edited by lonk (2024-07-02 22:50:00)

seth

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Re: Black screen with cursor on boot

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 3#p2180853

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