On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 08:19:17AM -0700, Nicolas Winkel wrote: > On Friday, 10 July 2020 16:13:22 UTC+1, Nicolas Winkel wrote: > > On Friday, 10 July 2020 15:53:31 UTC+1, Tycho Andersen wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 07:51:22AM -0700, Nicolas Winkel wrote: > > > > On Friday, 10 July 2020 15:49:05 UTC+1, Tycho Andersen wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 07:27:53AM -0700, Nicolas Winkel wrote: > > > > > > (EE) parse_vt_settings: cannot open /dev/tty0 (permission denied) > > > > > > > > > > Do you have x11 configured to run as non-root? Otherwise you probably > > > > > need to run it as root... > > > > > > > > > > Tycho > > > > > > > > As I said when I did "sudo startx" it sent me to a blank screen with a > > > > right click menu, on which there was a "window manager" tab where only > > > > awesomewm was shown despite qtile being installed through pip > > > > > > So it started a display manager; you need to configure that display > > > manager to have a qtile shortcut. See: > > > http://docs.qtile.org/en/latest/manual/config/#starting-qtile > > > > > > for info about how to do that. > > > > > > Tycho > > > > > > I've done those options and none of them worked. > > > > Attached is a picture of said "display manager" and its right-click menu. I > > have added "qtile.desktop" to my /usr/share/xsessions. > > This display manager seems to work like a floating window manager
Maybe you're getting some default wm, or just raw X then? Not sure. Worth figuring out what you're actually starting, first :). If it's a standard display manager and it's not finding /usr/share/xsessions stuff, might be worth consulting their mailing list. Tycho -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qtile-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qtile-dev/20200710152222.GA7423%40cisco.
