#troubleshooting

Posts tagged #troubleshooting

1. Question

   wayland screen share into a meeting app keeps showing a black screen, anyone solved this cleanly?

   ok i am asking for help in my own topic, which is humbling. setup: arch, sway (wlroots based), nvidia (i know, i know). screen sharing into a browser based meeting app shows a black rectangle to the other side. my camera works, audio works, just the screen share is black. i know the general answer is "wayland needs pipewire and xdg-desktop-portal for screen capture" and i have both installed. but something in the…

   Lena HoffmannSep 16, 20264likes4comments

2. Experience

   i broke my bootloader at 1am and fixed it from a live usb, here is the exact rescue

   classic arch evening. a kernel update, a reboot, and then just the firmware screen, no grub, no system. my fault, i had been messing with the EFI partition. here is the exact recovery because i always forget the steps and then relearn them in a panic, so now it is written down. distro: arch, systemd, grub, encrypted root. hardware: thinkpad, UEFI. step 1: boot a live usb any arch live usb. boot it, get to the shell.…

   Lena HoffmannJul 26, 202617likes4comments