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    [–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

    If it does reconfigure successfully, it just gives a blank screen, or takes me to the terminal login prompt instead of a GUI login prompt.

    I tried other things and it fails after hours of downloading packages and building. Does it seem right to you? What do you think I might be missing?

    [–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

    Well from a glance the config looks fine. I looked at the documentation but there's not a lot of information on what the lxqt service actually includes. My first guess as to why it drops you to a tty is that perhaps it doesn't include a display manager.

    Edit: actually nevermind, you're appending to %desktop-services and i'm pretty sure that includes gdm. Maybe the problem lies in gdm trying to use wayland by default. There's an option to change that, i'll see if i can find it.

    [–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    thanks so much. The documentation that I've glanced just makes it seem so easy, "just replace X with Y and nothing more!"

    [–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    I'm not sure if this will work, but what you can try is replacing the %desktop-services with this:

    (modify-services %desktop-services
  (gdm-service-type config =>
                                   (gdm-configuration
                                     (inherit config)
                                     (wayland? #f))))

    I'm not sure if wayland is actually the problem though, especially if gdm was working fine before you swapped to lxqt. Another thing i'm thinking of is maybe lxqt isn't properly exposing a session file to gdm, and perhaps gdm crashes because it doesn't find any sessions to start. I think i've seen other people adding this session file manually but i would have to look up how it's done. The thing is i don't use a DE myself, and i'm using greetd+gtkgreet as a display manager and it just launches me into a tty, and then my bash_profile has a snippet that checks which tty i'm and whether it's empty, and if it is it launches my wayland compositor of choice.

    [–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    thanks for trying. I did that, I get to the login, and then I get a mouse and a black screen after the login still. I basically did (more or less):

    before

      (services
   (append (list (service xfce-desktop-service-type)

                 ;; To configure OpenSSH, pass an 'openssh-configuration'
                 ;; record as a second argument to 'service' below.
                 (service openssh-service-type)
                 (set-xorg-configuration
                  (xorg-configuration (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout))))

           ;; This is the default list of services we
           ;; are appending to.
           %desktop-services))

    after

      (services
   (append (list (service lxqt-desktop-service-type)

                 ;; To configure OpenSSH, pass an 'openssh-configuration'
                 ;; record as a second argument to 'service' below.
                 (service openssh-service-type)
                 (set-xorg-configuration
                  (xorg-configuration (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout))))

           ;; This is the default list of services we
           ;; are appending to.
           (modify-services %desktop-services
                        (gdm-service-type config =>
                                   (gdm-configuration
                                     (inherit config)
                                     (wayland? #f)
                                     )
                          )
              )

))

    [–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Hmm, that does look correct and if it reconfigured without errors it's probably alright. Another thing you could try is run ls /var/log and see if there's an entry for gdm. If there is you could cat the log file and see what it says

    [–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

    It looks like there are some device failures and it's missing (EE) Failed to load module "qxl" (module does not exist, 0)

    Full log : https://pastebin.com/9YDiEpiN

    once again thanks for your time and efforts. I appreciate your help.

    [–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Hmm, i don't know if the qxl error is the cause of this, but i'm pretty sure that's related to the video settings for your VM. Maybe you could try one of the other options like virtio to see if that works?

    [–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

    will try, thanks again for the suggestion.

    [–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

    I'll give it a go at some point and get back to you in this thread and share what happened. Thanks for this advice anyway.