From: jbranso@dismail.de
To: "Disseminate Dissent" <disseminatedissent@protonmail.com>,
help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Need help with Xmonad setup and login from tty
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 18:10:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9c4eb19955a923cff5a0e025c4e6d57d@dismail.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gGd_UfivStB5BgTiuqoYjoq_ZBVo6gFcBQMfbI9D_QI2EY8-lynPhO-1p9bfahAamPxjMlgS53B42gjAacHIjZVXZ9InYpuK9WCUef5APxM=@protonmail.com>
October 27, 2021 6:08 PM, "Disseminate Dissent via" <help-guix@gnu.org> wrote:
> To whom this may concern,
>
> Hello, I have a relatively good understand of GNU/Linux. Just moved from Arch after using it for
> several months, looking for more GNU. However, I'm having some serious difficult with two things
> that I imagine are simple.
>
> During installation I opted out of setting up the default DEs and display managers since I prefer
> to login through TTY. I'm also using xmonad but am having trouble with getting it up and running.
> When invoking `startx` the screen goes black and then I'm unable to back out or even switch to
> another TTY. How would I go back solving these two issues?
What hardware do you have? Graphics card? That sort of thing.
Guix System doesn't support any proprietary graphics drivers or binary blobs.
>
> Thanks for any help in advance.
> All the best
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-28 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-27 22:02 Need help with Xmonad setup and login from tty Disseminate Dissent via
2021-10-28 18:10 ` jbranso [this message]
2021-10-30 19:22 ` Mekeor Melire
2021-10-30 19:35 ` Mekeor Melire
2021-10-31 16:23 ` Mekeor Melire
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