wm breaking beyond its boundaries?

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wm breaking beyond its boundaries?

Unread post by catfood » Thu Aug 06, 2020 12:20 am

So, playing around, I broke my 2wm .config bad, w/o knowing, then make installed.

On reboot, loaded into X fine, but nothing worked. 2wm terminal/new window shortcuts did nothing. Dmenu(who's shortcut was coded into 2wm config), did nothing. Alt+F1, etc did nothing.

Quickly asking, can I bork up my main wm's code enough to break all access back to TTY root terminal functions?
(I don't know how I broke what on whatever i did, but that felt like the end result, an X loaded feh wallpaper, with a broken keyboard, lol)

I did try "init=/bin/bash/ in Grub, and let myself back into bash shell, but couldn't find my home directory to undo changes from there...

NOT A HUGE PROBLEM!!! I already clonezilla'd back to working. Just curious how I made a wm break TTY escape route I guess? I'm slowly learning to back out and fix things, but if I break my basic (outside X) TTY terminals, then, not learning much, lol.

(dumb assumption #1: Alt+Shift+Enter 2wm keybindings somehow override Alt+F1?
So, if I break/lockout Alt keybindings with shenanigans, I also break default "Back to TTY" default keybindings...?)
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Re: wm breaking beyond its boundaries?

Unread post by wuxmedia » Fri Aug 07, 2020 7:18 am

I guess so.

with init bash you need to mount your directories and such. I've gone back to my machine booting into console TTY1 and starting X from there.
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Re: wm breaking beyond its boundaries?

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Fri Aug 07, 2020 10:16 pm

Imagine you set your keyboard on fire than it will be very difficult to use ALT whatever. :)

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Re: wm breaking beyond its boundaries?

Unread post by catfood » Sun Aug 09, 2020 5:18 pm

Yea, i tried just start X, or start openbox (knew it was somewhere on there still). Good to know I need to mount first for next time.
Is that kinda like chrooting into my home from TTY?
ivanovnegro wrote:
Fri Aug 07, 2020 10:16 pm
Imagine you set your keyboard on fire than it will be very difficult to use ALT whatever. :)
I still kinda wanna set mice on fire, especially touchpad mice!
(I wonder if any hardcore Linux users pry Super_L out of their keyboards like a Yakuza Yubitsume) :D
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Re: wm breaking beyond its boundaries?

Unread post by catfood » Sun Aug 09, 2020 11:30 pm

To prevent me doing it again tweaking 2wm, trying to make sure I can pick another wm from the start when I destroy one :D
Going off older learning thread:
pidsley wrote:
Sat Oct 08, 2016 2:10 pm
... Or you can edit the pick-wm script and remove window managers you don't use. Xfce will be a special case though, because it requires "exec startxfce" instead of just "exec xfce" -- you can add it as a case in pick-wm (like tmux.) And openbox is also a special case if you want the session, not just the window manager.
Less crap installed means less crap to break.
EDIT: wrongly assumed splicing pick-wm script into .xinitrc...
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Re: wm breaking beyond its boundaries?

Unread post by catfood » Tue Aug 18, 2020 8:39 pm

Opened up old BBQ Cream and Bleuets usb's to compare.

/usr/local/bin/
Found bblqlogin and pick-wm for Cream
Bleuets has a menu, but only ran 2wm, so thought closer approach.
Has bbqlogin and wmchooser there instead.

Break (current install) just seems to boot off .xinitrc imediately, but still has same files list in /usr/local/bin

I don't really understand the process tree between all these startup scripts...

How do I get the bbq menu to load again before(or in place of) my .xinitrc exec 2wm?
And which script or scripts do I edit from there to shave off all the excess wm options I don't actually have installed?
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