[Bug]: black screen with only an underscore in the top left corner.

[i-sifat]

Bug Report

Description

After installing Hyprland on EndeavourOS, my initial login screen defaulted to an old SDDM theme.

Post-login, everything worked well. However, after restarting, the screen turned black with only an underscore in the top left corner.

Seeking guidance on resolving this issue. Thank you.

• Linux Distro: [ EndeavourOS]
• Installation Environment: [On The Main Hardware]
• Other info: [Display Resolution 1920x1080]
• Graphics card -Nvidia Gt710

[kRHYME7]

any output for nvidia-inst.

-khing

[Skyfr69]

I have this issue too except I'm on arch linux

[kRHYME7]

lsmod | grep nvidia

pacman -Qs nvidia

Can guys provide output for this ?

[Skyfr69]

lsmod | grep nvidia

pacman -Qs nvidia

Can guys provide output for this ?

Some extra details: I have also realized that when i type in xrandr, it cannot open a display, i reconfigured the ~/.config/hypr/monitors.conf file and removed the monitor i put there, and then it worked again, however after adding my display to hypr.conf instead, it did work and my monitor ran at 165hz and everything seemed fine, but after rebooting this issue came back

[kRHYME7]

@Skyfr69 Seemed like a different problem. Try to open Hyprland without modifications here's the command Hyprland -c /usr/share/hyprland/hyprland.conf

Also why xrandr? use wlr-randr we are now on wayland. Are you trying to configure a specific xorg package?

[Skyfr69]

@Skyfr69 Seemed like a different problem. Try to open Hyprland without modifications here's the command Hyprland -c /usr/share/hyprland/hyprland.conf

Also why xrandr? use wlr-randr we are now on wayland. Are you trying to configure a specific xorg package?

Wasn't aware of wlr-randrs existence, kind of new here. After running the command it opened up hyprland perfectly fine Also, no I'm not trying to configure a specific xorg package

[kRHYME7]

After running the command it opened up hyprland perfectly fine

Alright comment out that line any line that configures " monitors "

output for this ?

cat ~/.config/hypr/monitors.conf

[Skyfr69]

After running the command it opened up hyprland perfectly fine

Alright comment out that line any line that configures " monitors "

That fixes it, but now I'm running on 60hz again, is there a different work around to get back on 165? Output would've been monitor = DP-2,1920x1080@165,0x0,1

[kRHYME7]

Try to use this to configure properly https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-displays yay -Sy nwg-displays

or what is the output if your run wlr-randr

Seek the hyprland-wiki regarding this refresh rate issues/configurations

here's a not so related issue

https://github.com/prasanthrangan/hyprdots/issues/854

[Skyfr69]

Try to use this to configure properly https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-displays yay -Sy nwg-displays

or what is the output if your run wlr-randr

Seek the hyprland-wiki regarding this refresh rate issues/configurations

here's a not so related issue

#854

Using nwg completely fixed the issue, thank you so much!

also wlr-randr shows my monitor model where it's plugged in, if it's enabled and a bunch of modes including 1920x1080 at 165.003006 hz (which is now enabled)

[Luiz0047]

I had this today too, with the recent sddm-git update. I removed the git version and installed sddm from the extra repositories and its working properly now, even the themes are back. I don't know if that's the optimal fix, but it worked for me.

[abenezerw]

Could you close as solved if you no longer have this issue. Thank you @i-sifat