need some guide for login manager setup

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PhatLe

been trying past hours to figure what i am doing wrong. I have tried sddm, lightdm, greetd, gnome to get login screen and each time i get black screen with moving mouse only. just cant figure this one out where i am hitting wrong or what i am missing on configs. Been doing lots of searching haven't found yet solution and it might be Wayland related issue

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PhatLe said:
been trying past hours to figure what i am doing wrong. I have tried sddm, lightdm, greetd, gnome to get login screen and each time i get black screen with moving mouse only. just cant figure this one out where i am hitting wrong or what i am missing on configs. Been doing lots of searching haven't found yet solution and it might be Wayland related issue

Also side question similar but related on Plymouth can i install custom Plymouth theme
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Using "greetd"? How? This software don't work/support FreeBSD and need various patches for this.

If you're using Wayland...stay with a tty or Ly, work better for the moment.
 
Does X.org run stand-alone without any programs? You can't do anything in it but since you seem to have a screen, can you start X-programs from another system terminal while it's running? If that works, it's some startup script missing.
Not using graphical login daemons. What should sddm or lightddm do after login? It looks like this can't be found...
 
To me login managers are just pure optical, only adding more complexity without bringing any real advantage.

In my ~/.login I added as last line:
Code: 
exec startx &
▶️ Machine boots, user login on tty, startx, WM
with login manager: Machine boots, startx, login manager, user login on login manager, WM

Since both ways come to the same result 'user working on WM' login managers are only an additional intermediate step only providing a nice looking login screen but adding nothing actually useful to the whole chain, just more complication and so potential problems.

(Any progs shall be autostarted with the WM can be also started within the WM's config file, startup script or whatever your WM/DE uses, or anyway at the end of ~/.xinitrc)
 
MG said:
You can't do anything in it but since you seem to have a screen,
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The days when X only was started providing only that tiny plaid black and white screen with a mouse pointer are long over.
Just by only installing X alone it already comes up at least with twm giving you three xterms and a simple xclock.
 
Maturin said:
The days when X just started and provided only that tiny plaid black and white screen are long over.
Just by installing X only it comes up at least with twm giving you three xterms and a simple xclock.
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That's the defauit if nothing is configured to prevent losing your I/O entirely because nothing else listens to the mouse and keyboard when they don't work in X either.. To start only the X.org server, type X. You have to go back to the vt terminal where it started and press ctrl-c to terminate it. I use this to rule out problems with the server itself. If we have a graphical screen, it works. If the server works but the keyboard doesn't, you have to reboot by button.
 
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