Black screen with mouse pointer after login after screen lock, again

[Joe_Ge]

You may wanna look at my solution for it.

XFCE only wakes up to blackscreen and mouse pointer

After the latest kernel updates my system dont loads the desktop anymore. After suspend, it awakes, but only shows a black screen with only the mouse pointer. I changed lately the video card from a gtx960 to a gtx750, but still the same problem. When i load my backup system with Kernel 6.1.62-1 it still works normal. When i boot with the current system with Kernel 6.1.69-1, it still stucks and i have to restart lightdm. This problem did appear right with the kernel update. Latest journald-…

[unfortunately]

EDIT: THINGS ARE BAD

I uninstalled lxdm hoping to fix what was broken. And now everything that was broken is still broken, and on top of that my computer boots straight into the terminal. I had to access the internet on my laptop to find out how to even get to my DE from there (which fortunately is super simple, it’s “startx” if anyone wonders).

Can anyone please tell me how to revert what lxdm did, or at the very least restore my computer’s ability to lock the screen? Most importantly, how to do so without breaking anything further?

These were the lines that broke my login and my screen lock capabilities:

sudo pacman -S lxdm
sudo systemctl enable lxdm.service --force

[yoosernaime]

Drat. Sorry about that. I described a fix that worked for me, but which obviously didn’t work on your system. Getting back to the default marriage of XFCE and lightdm / light-locker should be easy. I would just disable any suspend / sleep / lock in the power settings, then reinstall / force lightdm, then redo your preferred power scheme. I’m using only one setting: shut off display after one hour. Also, not that it’s necessarily related, but I’m back on 5.15.145-1-MANJARO.
FWIW, you’re doing exactly what I have been doing since I first migrated to this distro from Crux Linux three years ago: poking around on the boards whenever something breaks. …pretty much all you can do. I love using Linux, but I’ve learned to live with the fact that to one degree or another, it’s a time bomb. In case it helps the spec’s for my system are here: https://pcpartpicker.com/b/BFZZxr

[unfortunately]

@yoosernaime

Drat. Sorry about that. I described a fix that worked for me, but which obviously didn’t work on your system. Getting back to the default marriage of XFCE and lightdm / light-locker should be easy. I would just disable any suspend / sleep / lock in the power settings, then reinstall / force lightdm, then redo your preferred power scheme. I’m using only one setting: shut off display after one hour. Also, not that it’s necessarily related, but I’m back on 5.15.145-1-MANJARO.
FWIW, you’re doing exactly what I have been doing since I first migrated to this distro from Crux Linux three years ago: poking around on the boards whenever something breaks. …pretty much all you can do. I love using Linux, but I’ve learned to live with the fact that to one degree or another, it’s a time bomb.

Yeah, I didn’t think there was anything malicious to it, sometimes something works for someone and not for another.

I have lightdm installed, is the line to force it the same as lxdm’s except with lightdm?

I’m thankful that Linux exists, it’s the last usable OS. But every few months, even with Manjaro delaying releases in case there are issues, and even with me waiting an extra week for the issues that get by… some still get through the cracks, and trying to fix them is long, stressful, irritating, and as likely to break something else as it is to help. I’m just a normal person, not a tech expert. But I guess it’s the price I have to pay for having a computer.

EDIT: to fix the lxdm thing, I just had to reenable lightdm using

systemctl enable lightdm

That’s it.

However the black screen problem is back, and this time it happened without a Suspend (I literally locked the screen moved my mouse a couple seconds later, entered my password, and got the black screen). I’ll have to find a fix for that somewhere.