Will not boot with plasma after botched i3 install

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[HowTo] Resolve an unbootable Manjaro (black screen, login failed, cant boot, etc)

When we have problems gaining access to our systems it is difficult to gather information, let alone fix any problems. Here we will cover common causes and solutions to ‘manjaro wont boot’. TTY If your desktop does not load properly then you might still be able to use most, if not all, functionality by dropping to a non-graphical TTY. By default your system will have multiple TTYs, with each corresponding to an Fx key. Your desktop is assigned to one as well - most often F1. You can chang…

You might want to print your pacman log to see all of what you removed. ex:

less /var/log/pacman.log

Then you should be able to remove everything you need to and reinstall any removed packages, even without internet as they should still be in your local cache. ex:

sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/plasma-desktop-5.20.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

@chrisdel101

Not sure if i3 is a full desktop or just a window manager but I’d be happy to get back to plasma again.

i3 is a window manager (WM).