I’ve done a little digging and tried a few things…
-I tried the downgrade, followed by the update for mesa talked about here, but still have no luck. I can only get into i3 still.
-I did get lucky though and thanks to a well timed screen shot saw an error message that showed up briefly when trying to login to MATE.
Based on this I tried to edit ~/.config/monitors.xml with no luck and I also tried renaming monitors-v1-backup.xml to monitors.xml, still without luck.
Anybody have any other ideas about this? Other things to check? I get still get into i3, so I don’t think all hope is lost (it is just a VM though), but I’m not sure what else I can do. Thanks in advance.
Well, some of today’s updates (that I did while logged into i3) seem to have fixed whatever this issue is/was. In other google’ing I did I saw posts mentioning manually updating values in an xorg.conf file. I looked, but this wasn’t in the same place as the posts mentioned (it was another distro’s forum, so not a huge surprise). It all works now so I’m happy, I’ll just try not to break anything else
I was beginning to like installing things only through pacman and yay until I found that wine installed through yay was buggy, but wine installed via pamac worked just fine. I do not know why this is so, but this made me decide to just use pamac for installs. Seems to be safer. And I had quite liked the idea of doing things via the terminal!
