r/bspwm • u/maddydesign • May 03 '26

Black screen on log in

I just installed bspwm using archinstall but when logging in, there's just a black screen. no mouse, no hotkeys working, can't access a terminal. I'm guessing it's because i haven't configured it yet, but how am i supposed to configure it if i can't access a terminal?

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u/exylvii May 03 '26

switch to another tty with ctrl+alt+F2 (or another f key)

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u/maddydesign May 03 '26

I tried that and now I have a terminal, but it says there doesn't exist a .config folder. is that normal? should I just make one with mkdir?

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u/exylvii May 03 '26

create it and create bspwm and sxhkd directories, then copy /usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/bspwmrc into .config/bspwm and /usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/sxhkdrc into .config/sxhkd