Voidrice: Issue with opening anything in Manjaro

[athul05]

Hey Luke,
I tried out the wm in my Manjaro kde yesterday and having issue opening anything. Cannot type anything in dmenu(dmenu closes as a start typing) . Mod+enter is not spawning terminal .. The LARBS guide is opening btw.

[LukeSmithxyz]

Install libxft-bgra.

[athul05]

That is already installed at the last step of the script. And I checked again it's installed

[LukeSmithxyz]

Oh you know what. You're probably logging via a DM so the ~/.zprofile file isn't run. Just log in via a tty and it should work.

[athul05]

I logged in via tty and "startx".. this loads up everything perfectly but only a few key bindings are working
FYI network is not connected also

The regular GUI login take me to plasma desktop instead

[LukeSmithxyz]

What binds are not working?
On 20/06/22 07:32AM, Logan wrote:

I logged in via tty and "startx".. this loads up everything perfectly but only a few key bindings are working
FYI network is not connected also

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[athul05]

Mainly cannot pull up terminal. And dmenu not allowing me to type also ..it closes as soon as I type

[vladdoster]

@athul05 when you say pull up terminal, you cant open it via keybind?

[athul05]

@athul05 when you say pull up terminal, you cant open it via keybind?

Yeah cannot via keybinding and if it try to open via dmenu , the dmenu doesn't allow me to type anything it closes as I start typing

[mynamedoge]

Same problem here. Can't even open the terminal from dmenu by scrolling manually. What gives?

[vladdoster]

Same problem here. Can't even open the terminal from dmenu by scrolling manually. What gives?

@mynamedoge Which base version of manjaro did you install larbs from?

[mynamedoge]

Same problem here. Can't even open the terminal from dmenu by scrolling manually. What gives?

@mynamedoge Which base version of manjaro did you install larbs from?

KDE version

[vladdoster]

Same problem here. Can't even open the terminal from dmenu by scrolling manually. What gives?

@mynamedoge Which base version of manjaro did you install larbs from?

KDE version

Are any key bindings defined here? It might be creating a conflict...

https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?title=Keyboard_Shortcuts

[mynamedoge]

Same problem here. Can't even open the terminal from dmenu by scrolling manually. What gives?

@mynamedoge Which base version of manjaro did you install larbs from?

KDE version

Are any key bindings defined here? It might be creating a conflict...

https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?title=Keyboard_Shortcuts

I can't see because ever since I've installed LARBS, nothing from the Plasma desktop is accessible. It glitches out the screen to even open a menu and the windows don't appear at all. Rest assured it's a fresh install.

[vladdoster]

So LARBS is meant to be run from a fresh arch install. Not on top of a desktop. So it's not really a "fresh install" btw.

You didn't really answer my question though. If you use the kde plasma desktop, and go the keybindings, which ones are defined there?

https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?title=Keyboard_Shortcuts

[mynamedoge]

I literally added LARBS on top of a fresh Manjaro install. In fact I've done it twice over, each time with a fresh install of Manjaro with everything updated and so on. On both instances, I have faced the same problem that OP has stated.

And to reiterate, now that I have LARBS in place, I cannot open anything inside the Plasma environment. If I open the settings, it will show up as an icon on the toolbar but the window itself will not appear.

[vladdoster]

I literally added LARBS on top of a fresh Manjaro install. Tell me if I'm being dense but that's the clearest I can state it.
And to reiterate, I cannot open anything inside the Plasma environment. If I open the settings, it will show up as an icon on the toolbar but the window itself will not appear.

So Manjaro is a distribution of arch. Much like popOS is built from Debian. LARBS is really meant to be installed on a vanilla install of arch Linux. The reason you are running into issues is because Manjaro does a lot of changes to vanilla arch Linux. The reason you're having issues is due to LARBS adding dotfiles that are breaking Manjaro. I'd suggest either installing vanilla arch and then installing larbs.

Manjaro is arch and you might have installed it on a fresh install, but Manjaro != Vanilla arch.

Here is more information on the subtle differences

[vladdoster]

Can you try this?

1. Go to a new tty via
   Alt+F3

2. Try logging in

[mynamedoge]

Gotcha. Has @LukeSmithxyz put out any statement regarding this? Seems like a glaring issue if the github page reads like thus

[vladdoster]

Gotcha. Has @LukeSmithxyz put out any statement regarding this? Seems like a glaring issue if the github page reads like thus

He actually told you what to do in this issue. Login via a virtual terminal (a tty) because it looks like the .zprofile is not running...

The reason the keybindings aren't working is because they are conflicting with the Manjaro KDE keybindings. There really isn't much more to say. There are more slimmed down versions of manajaro available which work fine since they don't define keybindings/ super customized.

[mynamedoge]

That's how I have been logging in so far

[vladdoster]

That's how I have been logging in so far

Mhm... Then yeah im going to say it's KDE bloat cashing issues.

Try installing the more vanilla version of manjaro or installing vanilla arch. There really isn't a reason to install Manjaro KDE and then try to install larbs.

Anyways, I'm going to stop commenting on this thread since it really it doesn't seem like any progress is being made.

[void00r]

This isnt a problem of distro. I had this same problem too. dmenu and terminal cant open up because st has problem. Try to run st from your DE's terminal and see what errors it gives. In my case the error was mainly of localization. I fixed this problem by adding this line in .profile export LC_CTYPE="en_GB.utf8" and it worked.

[vladdoster]

This isnt a problem of distro. I had this same problem too. dmenu and terminal cant open up because st has problem. Try to run st from your DE's terminal and see what errors it gives. In my case the error was mainly of localization. I fixed this problem by adding this line in .profile export LC_CTYPE="en_GB.utf8" and it worked.

mhm... So @void00r you are in australia? @mynamedoge might want to adjust this to be your locale

[athul05]

This isnt a problem of distro. I had this same problem too. dmenu and terminal cant open up because st has problem. Try to run st from your DE's terminal and see what errors it gives. In my case the error was mainly of localization. I fixed this problem by adding this line in .profile export LC_CTYPE="en_GB.utf8" and it worked.

Wew worked out finally...thanks a ton

[void00r]

Wew worked out finally...thanks a ton

Glad it did work out. Locales set by calamaries didnt work out good for me so i had to reset them from terminal. Also you might want to have a look at your .xsessionserrors file and solve other error accordingly.

[vladdoster]

Might be worth adding this to a list of possible issues. Hrmmm...

[void00r]

Ok so I finally figured it out, Actually you dont need to put that line in ~/.profile
what you need to do is
Goto your /etc/locale.conf file
And add this new type which must be missing there
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (set according to your region.)
And then run sudo locale-gen

This will fix for every program.

You might also want to add this other types too if they already are not present there.

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8

and run sudo locale-gen

but make sure you have en_US.UTF-8 uncommented in your /etc/local.gen file before doing this.