The config file is not created

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Recently I encountered some troubles with plasma, and decided to switch to qtile.
from tty I ran sudo pacman -S qtile. But when I try : qtile start, I was met with the line libqtile.utils.QtileError: No DISPLAY set.
After some google, and checking files, I found out that qtile didn’t generate any config.py files, there is no qtile folder on /etc/ nor in HOME/.config.
And running qtile check generates:

checking qtile config file /home/…config.py
stubtest not found, can’t type check config file
install it and try again
mypy not found, can’t type check config fileinstall it and try again
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "…
…File “”, line1004, in _find_and_load_unlocked
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘config’.

Do I just need a config.py file on home/.config/qtile/ or is this a sign that something went wrong and need more files. all the dependencies for qtile seem to be installed

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Is a good starting place, clone it and copy the files you need to ~/.config/qtile.

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I’ve run the setup.sh file, run qtile start from tty and still get the same libqtile.utils.QtileError: No DISPLAY set. Also have changed the created config.py file from the script to the standard provided by the qtile documentation and get the same response.

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What does this command show?

xrandr

Also, take a look here, and here…!

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that just qtile …

this help … :pray: read

and link above by xircon

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Thank you for the link, I went for a more mainstream DE already but I want to give qtile another chance in the future. From the list of packages in the link what are the ones that are necessary?, I tried endeavour-qtile, but wasn’t sold on the customization offered. What are the key packages that I should get to create a functioning qtile DE, that is close to the vanilla implementation?, and, is there a difference between qtile with x11 and qtile with wayland?

thank you for your help.