Hey everyone! I've been using the Xfce4 desktop environment with the ly login manager without any issues. However, today I booted up my computer and instead of getting the ly login screen, I was dropped into a shell. I manually entered 'startx', but it launched a default X setup with three terminal windows instead of my desktop.
I then installed lightdm and the lightdm-gtk-greeter, which allowed me to log into the Xfce session, although the default KDE Plasma session was still just blank. But my Xfce setup works almost fine, except for some graphical glitches where items blink or disappear as I hover over them or click them.
I tried reinstalling ly and restarted it through systemctl. After starting ly again, I tried to log into my Xfce session, but it simply gave me a black screen and quickly logged me out, even though I could hear music from deadbeef that I run at login, indicating that my Xfce session was somehow running on TTY7 instead of the configured TTY2. I suspect something went wrong when I turned off my computer yesterday, and now I'm left puzzled whether it's an issue with Xfce, the greeter, my NVIDIA drivers, or something in Linux itself.
Here are my specs for reference:
- Arch Linux linux-zen 6.18.1-zen1-2-zen
- Login manager: Ly
- Desktop environment: Xfce4
- GPU: RTX 4060
- Driver: 580.119.02
If more information or logs are needed, just let me know which files I should look at!
1 Answer
Did you run any system updates before shutting down? It seems odd that everything was working fine until today. After logging in, are you able to run 'startxfce4' and successfully start the desktop environment?
I rebooted and saw ly run as usual, but when I tried logging into Xfce, it worked! The graphical glitches are still there, and it seems to be on TTY1 instead of TTY2. After another reboot, I logged into the shell and ran 'startxfce4', and it worked with the same glitches. It feels like a messy configuration somewhere.
I remember updating yesterday, I think there was a Discord update. That's when I ran 'pacman -Syu' since the Discord updater is pretty bad. I'll try rebooting and see if 'startxfce4' works.