On Friday, 10 July 2020 16:32:12 UTC+1, Tycho Andersen  wrote:
> 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

Do you know how I could do that? What $PATH can lightdm see?

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