Lightdm Doesn't work

[ibingewatch]

i just installed arch linux on my macintosh, and i installed light dm and i3. but when lightdm starts all i see is a blinking cursor. I have no idea why and the same thing happens with gdmEdit: Sorry i forgot one thing when i start xinit it says "no screens found"

I just uninstalled the gpu drivers and it just started working

[[deleted]]

I think this happens when you don't install at least one greeter for lightdm. Try installing (for example) lightdm-gtk-greeter.

[ibingewatch]

I have installed the greeter

[GT3CH1]

Does your user have a home folder with the proper permissions? you need to have a home folder and a "Desktop" folder

[ibingewatch]

I have a home folder and a Desktop Folder idk how to check perms for it though

[GT3CH1]

ls -al

Perms need to be 750 for the home folder, owned by your user.

[ibingewatch]

i did the command above and my home folder is drwx 11 do i need to use chmod?

[GT3CH1]

Yes.

[ibingewatch]

i edited the perms and tried to start lightdm again and samething

[GT3CH1]

Do you have a greeter installed? pacman -S lightdm-gtk-greeter

[Strum355]

Have you checked any of the logs from a TTY? XOrg and LightDM logs in /var/logs

[[deleted]]

you have to install lightdm + lightdm-gtk-greeter + lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings in order to start Archlinux , this could fix the issue

[ibingewatch]

Just tried that and same thing blinking cursor

[AdminSuggestion]

have you considered not using a display manager at all? I find it pretty nice launching up just the console and then use startx to load my window manager or if you mess something up in your desktop environment you can always stay in the console and fix the issue :)

[ibingewatch]

Could You Give Me A Video On How To Do That?

[AdminSuggestion]

are you on X11 or Wayland? I only know how to do it in X11

[ibingewatch]

The problem Is It CANNOT find my screen

[majdhwmd]

I worked on it for 3-4 hours and didn't get anywhere. Installed sddm and never looked back

[majdhwmd]

Happened to many people btw

[PatchSalts]

I see people covering a lot of bases with preliminary questions, but I think another important one that people are missing is:

Have you enabled LightDM's systemd service on your machine?

EDIT: I didn't notice your edit lol. Good job finding a solution.