On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 08:28:54AM -0700, Nicolas Winkel wrote: > On Friday, 10 July 2020 16:26:21 UTC+1, Nicolas Winkel wrote: > > On Friday, 10 July 2020 16:22:28 UTC+1, Tycho Andersen wrote: > > > 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 > > > > On the menu theres a open config option which sends me to "openbox > > configuration manager" > > > > Could it be default opening a blank openbox? > > I just reinstalled lightdm to see if that would work, but now I'm getting and > error inside lightdm "Xsession: unable to launch "qtile" X session --- > "qtile" not found; falling back to default session"
You need qtile somewhere in the $PATH that lightdm can see, or to run ~/.xsession and set it correctly there. pip installed it to ~/.local/bin/qtile. 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/20200710153208.GB7423%40cisco.
