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08-28-2019, 06:14 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-02-2019, 02:01 AM by firenice03.)
I'm new to linux. And was trying to prevent screen tearing with nvidia settings. My gpu is Geforce 1050ti. I selected the wrong xorg file and now i'm stuck with just a wallpaper and no xfce loading. The xorg.conf I selected was /usr/share/xresprobe. I also tried to purge nvidia drivers with "sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia"
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Revert back to what you started with. Then search the forums for compton, should be the second result.
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I ran the live image of linux lite, and replaced the xorg.conf with the original. And logged in and ctrl-alt-f2 ran sudo apt install [xserver-xorg-video-nouveau]. Logged back in. And xfce is still not rendering. Not sure what is happening.
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So you've already installed and configured compton?
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I have compton installed just not added to startup. Don't know how to add it to start because xfce is not loading (just a wallpaper). Is the a way to add it to start up by pressing ctrl-alt-f2 and running a command?
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Sorry for the confusion I'm new to linux and not very experienced....
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I'm having no luck today.... Now when I boot I get busybox initramfs and can't get pass the screen. Think I would just be better off to reinstall at this point. Unless you have a solution for it. And i can follow the link to fix it.
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Reinstall. All part of the learning process.
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(08-28-2019, 02:18 PM)Jerry link Wrote: Reinstall. All part of the learning process.
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and.... make a backup/restore point
should you need to fix again later
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