i’m new here, i3wm freezes so i tried to fix it myself then i got tired so i tried to change to kde and now i’m lost ![]()
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First off hi and welcome to the forum
What steps have you taken so far? And where are you lost?
i’ve been trying for 5 hours already so pardon me if i missed something
it freezes so i log out, got into terminal and did this and gave up, so i installed kde using eos-packagelist --install "KDE-Desktop" , reboot
then got stuck at “reached Graphical Interface” , it still possible to get into terminal though ![]()
Hmm… I imagine you probably don’t have any display manager and the system gets confused somehow since i3 is missing.
Try to install plasma-login-manager from a tty, enable it and reboot.
$ sudo pacman -S plasma-login-manager
$ systemctl enable plasmalogin.service
$ reboot
nothing happened ![]()
warning: plasma-login-manager-6.7.4-1 is up to date --reinstalling
=====AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE====
Failed to enable unit: File ‘/etc/systemd/display-manager.service’ already exists and is a symlink to /usr/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service
It looks like LightDM (the display manager for i3wm session) tries to be launched every time every time you power up your computer.
Is it still installed?
$ whereis lightdm
/usr/bin/lightdm
/usr/lib/lightdm
/etc/lightdm
/usr/share/man/man1/lightdm.1.gz
Force it to change by applying --force to the systemctl command or remove lightdm, since you won’t need it anyway if you are going to use Plasma.