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dead1010

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Registered: 2025-01-03

Posts: 4

Can't run Qtile on fresh Arch installation

I have a fresh Arch installation and I wanted to rice it with Qtile. I installed xorg, xorg-int and qtile. But when I try to run qtile with xinitrc the X-org server crahes by saying following.

Waiting for X server to shut down (II) Server terminated successfully (0).[ Closing log file.ne 54: xterm:command not fountxinint: connection to X server lostline 52: xclock: command not found/home/user/.xinitrc: line 53: xterm command

Also when I run qtile check it says No module found named config. Thus I can't really find if this is an issue related to qtile or xorg.
Have anyone run intro this kind of issue? What should I do?

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 12,305

Re: Can't run Qtile on fresh Arch installation

Because you didn't set up your .xinitrc correctly. Check the wiki page again, and if you still can't get it, post it here.

dead1010

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Registered: 2025-01-03

Posts: 4

Re: Can't run Qtile on fresh Arch installation

Check the wiki page again

Wiki says only about adding the line exec qtile start, and that's exactly what I added.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 12,305

Re: Can't run Qtile on fresh Arch installation

And links to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xinit to tell you how to do that.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,875

Re: Can't run Qtile on fresh Arch installation

That really isn't strictly spelled out there, but the implication would be that going from the default .xinitrc template you remove the lines for stuff you don't want to run at the end, like the invocation of xclock/xterm as well as the additional exec line that will run and prevent your qtile from ever running