After latest update screen goes black when loging in

Did you see this on the Arch wiki page?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA/Troubleshooting#Blackscreen_at_X_startup_/_Machine_poweroff_at_X_shutdown

No, I did not.
Thanks for the link.
Do you think this is why the composition option misbehaves?
I can give those steps a try tomorrow.

I don’t know? I really don’t understand why you are having this issue. It makes no sense to me. If it worked before and then an update did this. Why aren’t others having this problem with similar hardware? It’s very strange. :thinking:

This is my system info if needed.

Sorry, for the late reply. I didn’t have time until today to try it.

I made every change listed under it and after each change turned compositing on again.
Unfortunately, the screen went black and the signal to the monitor got lost every time. Meaning these changes didn’t help.

I think I would like to try to switch out xfwm4 for picom next.
@s4ndm4n, could you please tell me how I can disable xfmw4?
I only found info on how to turn off certain xfmw4 features, but not xfmw4 itself.

Xfwm4 is a window manager disable it and things get undecorated lol…

Maybe this is helpful? Picom is the new compton. It’s been renamed. I see if you install either they are the same packages. I have never use it myself so here is another webpage to look at.

https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Using_Compton_for_a_tear-free_experience_in_Xfce

To disable the native compositor @ringo gave you the answer.

Picom is great compared to the native XFCE xfwm4 compositor. It’s a fork of compton which seems to be not updated anymore. picom also has many other forks which have rounded corners to animations.

The one in Arch official is the main and the base which provides better composting but there many other forks that allow you to go nuts.

One fork is this and you can watch it in action here. It just comes with window animations and a bit more eyecandyness.

Another fork is this and you can see it being installed and configured here.

This is how you can rise your normal picom thanks to Brodie Robertson.

Thanks everyone for the links. I’ll check them out. Appreciate the help.

@ringo I assumed I have to do it from a terminal. :slight_smile:

@s4ndm4n I used ringo’s command to turn off compositing. But in your post #96 you mentioned in the last sentence that I have to disable xfwm4 before I install picom. That’s why I asked how to disable it. Did you actually mean that I just have to turn off compositing beforehand?

@ringo command does turn off xfsm4 compositor so you’re good to go if you have done that already.

Yes, you can only have one compositor at a time.