BSPWM won't start [Solved]

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So, here’s the thing, I’ve got Gnome uninstalled and after that BSPWM won’t start.
Strangely enough, I can start with other WM (now in DWM or Deepin)

I was wondering what I touched to make this authentic mess!
I don’t know where to start

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For starters neither gnome nor deepin are windows managers (both are desktop environments ~DE). When you install multiple DE’s you run the risk of getting a lot of over lapping “features” & “functions”. Given we have no actual idea of what you “really” did it is hard to guess why you have such a mess.

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Yes, they are DE. So, now that I messed it up, I want to figure out how to redo the issue. It might be a problem with the autostart file, but I’m not sure.That’s why I’m asking here.
I’d like to know if there’s a way to to know what happens (a log) after I type my user password on my lightdm screen.
By the way, I messed a lot with DE and WM, they are addictive :smiley: but, strangely, I never had this issue before (I had other issues, though!)

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Given you haven’t explained what you did, you have provided no errors, you have not shown your hardware platform specs…

Here’s what I can offer by way of help.
1.Save your data somewhere… then
2. Wipe the machine clean (optional)
3. Perform a fresh reinstall.

In the future you might want to be a bit more circumspect, save an audit trail, and watch (and plan) for potential pitfalls.

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bspwm is among the difficult WMs to set up from scratch.

I would start by backing up your data (texts, pictures, videos, browser bookmarks) and reinstalling from manjaro-architect.

Manjaro flavour of bspwm also was developed more for standalone operation. I always had to perform several settings changes to make it work with other DEs as an additional session.

Alternatively you can try a simpler WM which you can even start from command line: Sway - ArchWiki

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did you insall sxhkd? was the bspwmrc file executable?

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yep. It’s been installed and working. However later I twiched something and then it stopped loggin in.
What I want to know is the log in menu log so I can spot the problem. That’s what I was asking here. Sorry for not being more concrete!

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sounds good the sway thing!

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Can you post ~/.xinitrc on hastebin.com and give a link here?

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here’s the .xinitrc file:

#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)

[[ -f ~/.Xdefaults ]] && xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults


userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodma=p$HOME/.Xmodmap

sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap

# merge in defaults and keymaps

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f "$userresources" ]; then
    xrdb -merge "$userresources"
fi

if [ -f "$usermodmap" ]; then
    xmodmap "$usermodmap"
fi

# start some nice programs

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ] ; then
    for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/?*.sh ; do
        [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
    done
    unset f
fi
if [ $TERM = linux ] || [ -e "/etc/systemd/system/graphical.target.wants/xlogin@$(whoami).service" ] ; then
# Here Bspwm is kept as default
session=${1:-bspwm}

case $session in
	awesome 		  ) exec dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session awesome;;
	jwm 			  ) exec dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session jwm;;
	deepin 			  ) exec dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session startdde;;
	enlightenment 	  ) exec dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session enlightenment_start;;
	gnome 			  ) exec dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session gnome-session;;
	bspwm 			  ) exec dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session bspwm-session;;
    i3|i3wm           ) exec dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session i3;;
    lxde 	          ) exec dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session startlxde;;
    lxqt         	  ) exec dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session lxqt-session;;
    i3|i3wm           ) exec dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session i3;;
    kde               ) exec dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session startkde;;
    cinnamon          ) exec dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session cinnamon-session;;
    budgie            ) exec dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session budgie-desktop;;
    mate              ) exec dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session mate-session;;
    openbox           ) exec dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session openbox-session;;
    xfce|xfce4        ) exec dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session startxfce4;;
    # No known session, try to run it as command
    *                 ) exec dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session $1;;
esac
fi

thanks for helping

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So, here’s how I solved the problem:
As you can see in the code that I pasted you, there’s a command to start bspwm (bspwm-session)
I opened another tty and checked and it seems to be a problem with a non completely uninstalled opt program…
I deleted it, and the error is gone, so I can start the session! thanks a lot!

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for learning:
what exactly was the non completely uninstalled opt program?

how did you troubleshoot?

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Sure, the problem was that I tried to uninstall the packet tracer that you download from Cisco (I’ve got the AUR working and it’s way better). It consists on a .sh that you run and installs.
When I tried to uninstall it, the script didn’t worked. Then, what I did is just to remove the Packet Tracer files in the /opt directory.
However, I didn’t remove the script that was being run in /etc/profile.d and that was causing the issue.

How I did know that it was this?
I’ve saw how bspwm is launched in the script above and then I switched to TTY (ctrl+alt+f2 to access TTY2) and run the command bspwm-session to see what’s going on.
It showed me this problem, and then I think I solved it by deleting that file inside /etc/profile.d

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