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diff --git a/content/posts/setting-up-ly.md b/content/posts/setting-up-ly.md index 12e32bd..134f075 100644 --- a/content/posts/setting-up-ly.md +++ b/content/posts/setting-up-ly.md @@ -11,10 +11,10 @@ tags = [ "linux", "gentoo", "display-manager", "ly", "tty" ] ## Premise A few months ago, my Gentoo install came to be in a rather annoying predicament. -Instead of the usual login tty, I was greeted by a black screen after booting from GRUB. +After booting from GRUB, I was greeted by a black screen instead of the usual login TTY. I inserted my credentials nonetheless, and to my relief, I could successfully launch X. -I was confident that the culprit was some kernel option or driver. +I was confident that the culprit was a kernel option for the video driver. Yet I did not have quite enough time or motivation to investigate, so I eventually ended up getting used to logging in from a blank tty. @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Now my TTYs can be seen once again, hooray! ## Moving to Openrc-init -Unfortunately `ly` does not support `sysvinit`, Gentoo's default init system. +Unfortunately, `ly` does not support `sysvinit`, Gentoo's default init system. Since my system is based around OpenRC, I decided to enable OpenRC's own init. For an easier transition I added the `sysv-utils` use flags to `sys-apps/openrc` and reemerged. @@ -77,11 +77,11 @@ rc-update del agetty.tty2 ## Fixing the xinitrc At this point, `ly` is being displayed in the second tty. -The input works correctly and I can log into a shell session. +The input also worked and I could log into a shell session. But the same can't be said for the xinitrc environment. -Despite having made the `.xinitrc` an executable shell script, I am -instantly logged out every time I try it. +Despite having made the `.xinitrc` an executable shell script, I was +instantly logged out every time I tried it. After some debugging, I discovered that the root of the problem was my home layout. To adopt the XDG specification, I had moved the xinitrc and most of my configuration files to the `.config` |