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i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

It’s so user friendly. It tells you exactly what to do to solve the problem. Switch to a tty (if that even works on your system) and log in, type this long command from memory, making sure not to mistake those 0s for Os or the Unicode left single quote for back tick, restart your lockscreen, which of course you know how to do, and then come back. If that doesn’t work, start terminating some processes and praying.

It says you can return using “ctrl+alt+F[N] where N is the tty number in the top left corner.” I can’t find my F0 key.

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ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Tbf I’d take a pic of the command, or failing that, write it down, before switching.

My issue is “am noob, how login? And how switch back?” Lol. This post made me realize I need to learn how to do that now before I’m faced with a situation where I have to, so that’s good!

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- thingsiplay@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  I need to learn how to do that now before I’m faced with a situation where I have to,
  
  +1
  
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  - ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Got it now! For some reason, the internet seems to think my GUI is on tty7, but it’s on tty2, and on tty1 I only get a blinking cursor, but on the rest (besides the GUI) I get the “sysname login:” prompt. I’m sure this is a fedora thing but I can’t find out why it switched, or why tty1 shows up different.
    
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    thingsiplay@beehaw.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I remember the “switch to tty2” thing too, from old glory Ubuntu days (I mean decade ago at least). Nowadays when I switch to a different tty, it feels like stuff is assigned randomly. Honestly I never got that deep into it to study and don’t understand it fully myself. So don’t ask me about details, I would probably look goofy then.
    
    SDDM is a popular graphical display manager used by KDE as the default, because their previous house made display manager didn’t support Wayland. Gnome has GDM (do they still?) and there are bunch of others. You can switch the display manager too, I think KDE even offers builtin option to change, but I’m not sure right now. The name display manager is a bit confusing, because its about your user login with graphical interface.
    
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