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Re: Need help with Xmonad setup and login from tty


From: jbranso
Subject: Re: Need help with Xmonad setup and login from tty
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 18:10:07 +0000

October 27, 2021 6:08 PM, "Disseminate Dissent via" <help-guix@gnu.org> wrote:

> To whom this may concern,
> 
> Hello, I have a relatively good understand of GNU/Linux. Just moved from Arch 
> after using it for
> several months, looking for more GNU. However, I'm having some serious 
> difficult with two things
> that I imagine are simple.
> 
> During installation I opted out of setting up the default DEs and display 
> managers since I prefer
> to login through TTY. I'm also using xmonad but am having trouble with 
> getting it up and running.
> When invoking `startx` the screen goes black and then I'm unable to back out 
> or even switch to
> another TTY. How would I go back solving these two issues?

What hardware do you have?  Graphics card?  That sort of thing.

Guix System doesn't support any proprietary graphics drivers or binary blobs.  

> 
> Thanks for any help in advance.
> All the best



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