So this is completely on me:

I installed Arch
I installed the plasma desktop without any additional programs
I installed sddm and told it to launch plasma desktop
I rebooted

And it did what I told it to do perfectly:

I’m now within plasma desktop.
I have no terminal emulator installed, so no way of accessing a command line from within the GUI.
Whenever I reboot, I get put back into plasma desktop.
I tried to switch to a different tty with Ctrl+Alt+F-keys but that key combo seems to be used for additional desktop sessions instead (shows me the sddm login again).
I tried creating a shell script that launches pacman and installs a terminal, but I can’t, since I don’t have a text editor installed.

Help!

[Edit: Solved. I was able to go to a different tty after disabling function keys]

  • Responsabilidade@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    How don’t you have any tty?

    Maybe your function keys are set to be multimedia at the bios.

    Try ctrl+alt+fn+F{Key}

    Another alternative is to boot from usb, chroot and install a terminal

    • superkret@feddit.deOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Thanks, checked that already. Yeah, booting from USB is a good solution. But now, I’m determined to fix this from within ;)

    • jennifilm@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Absolutely try some function key combos - I did something similar this week by setting my keyboard to “ma” and not “mao” this week and got an Arabic script instead of te reo Māori and all of a sudden none of my keybinds worked, but hitting fn+alt+f2 got me to a tty and saved me.