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turdas@suppo.fi 1 day agoFor comparison here’s the error message KDE displays in the same situation: www.reddit.com/r/kde/…/screen_locker_is_broken/
I believe it has no localization support, but the language is clearer and the command it tells you to run is much simpler. A big problem with it is that Ctrl-Alt-F2 does not actually get you to a working TTY on many distros – e.g. on Fedora TTY1 is SDDM and TTY2 is the DE – and the error message is not adjusted based on which TTY is which.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
Fucking thank you so much I’ve spent the last hour trying to find this out lmao, but I couldn’t find it by searching “what is fedora tty1” for some reason.
I tried tty2 (as all online advice says to try): nothing. So I tried tty3, and it worked! But then I tried to switch “back” to my GUI using tty7, blinking cursor. Fuck. Went back to 3, tried 2 and breathed a sigh of relief as I saw my GUI lmao. But then began the quest to learn why are tty1 and 7 different.
So, tty1 is SDDM, can I ask what that is? I see:
But uuhhhh… what? I see no graphicals only the blinky cursor. And is tty7 that also?
turdas@suppo.fi 12 hours ago
SDDM is the login screen, but when you’re already logged in it’s not going to display anything.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
Ah so that’s why flashy line, am already logged in to KDE. I guess when I log in the system auto switches me from tty1 login to tty2 KDE? But then why does tty7 have the same flashy line, both can’t be login, can they?
turdas@suppo.fi 8 hours ago
I don’t know what TTY7 is, but if I had to guess I’d say Plymouth, which is the graphical loading screen that covers the boot messages.