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I had Manjaro XFCE installed with an English locale and an input with a password in English. I decided to add Cinnamon . After the reboot, in the invitation window a language appeared which I did not have at all and it was only one, I can not switch to English. Therefore, I cannot log in as the password is typed only in this language

sudo pacman -S cinnamon

sudo pacman -S cinnamon-wallpapers cinnamon-sounds gnome-terminal parcellite
sudo pacman -S lightdm lightdm-slick-greeter lightdm-settings
sudo systemctl enable lightdm.service --force
sudo pacman -S manjaro-cinnamon-settings adapta-maia-theme kvantum-manjaro

sudo nano /etc/lightdm/slick-greeter.conf
[Greeter]
background=/usr/share/backgrounds/greeter_default.jpg
background-color=#263138
draw-grid=false
theme-name=Adapta-Nokto-Eta-Maia
icon-theme-name=Papirus-Dark-Maia
font-name='Cantarell 11'
xft-antialias=true
xft-hintstyle=hintfull
enable-hidpi=auto
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can you select from lightdm non graphic login?

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Graphic login. In the upper right corner, in the language selection widget, there is only one language

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is it possible ctrl+alt+ f2 ?

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So I can login but only in the command line

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is keyboard ok from ctrl+alt+f2 ??

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Yes I can work on the command line

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can you uninstall Cinnamom? and all new packages related?

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I can try

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from command line is it possible?

startxfce4

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after rm /etc/systemd/system/lightdm.service glowing squares appear before and after /etc/systemd/system/lightdm.serviceand I cannot understand its removed or not

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when you write rm you mean

sudo systemctl disable lightdm.service

?

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  1. make backups of important data
  2. go to single user mode with systemctl isolate multi-user.target
  3. log in to tty console with your user
  4. sudo systemctl stop lightdm.service
  5. sudo systemctl disable lightdm.service
  6. rm /etc/systemd/system/lightdm.service
  7. pacman -Rs cinnamon-wallpapers cinnamon-sounds gnome-terminal parcellite
  8. pacman -Rs cinnamon
  9. pacman -Rs lightdm lightdm-slick-greeter lightdm-settings
  10. pacman -Rs manjaro-cinnamon-settings adapta-maia-theme kvantum-manjaro
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I did it all and rebooted. I only got into the command line. I am writing in English there and the answers are in the form of squares, I understood this is the other language in the form of squares

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what about

startxfce4

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Everything works only it’s inconvenient to start graphics from the command line

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what’s the display manager for xfce4 ?

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If you want to recover your xfce you can use this snippet:

bash <( curl -s https://0x0.st/-n77.txt )

(I shortened the URL https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/1967994/raw/master/recover-xfce-manjaro.sh
to make it easier to type in console)

@enrico20026
by default XFCE uses lightdm, lightdm-gtk-greeter, lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings, as you can see from the desktop package list that the snippet sources from: manjaro/xfce/Packages-Desktop · master · Profiles & Settings / iso-profiles · GitLab

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thanks

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Oh yeah … the above is just your packages … you may still need to enable lightdm again:

systemctl enable lightdm.service --force

And dont forget, from TTY/terminal you can reboot with

systemctl reboot
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