Can't open urxvt after editing .Xdefaults

dendro · n00b Joined: 21 Jul 2018 Posts: 43

I can no longer open urxvt so I'm trying to open a shell somehow so I can fix my ~/.Xdefaults.

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 14949

Can you open an xterm and fix it from there? If not, what about logging in over ssh or switching to a text console? As a worst case, you could use a rescue environment, but I highly doubt that your system is broken enough to make that the least disruptive solution. There are many ways you can fix this, but they all depend on specific properties of your system that you may have configured differently from what we expect.

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 8:15 pm Post subject:

is gvim installed?
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Asus m5a99fx, FX 8320 - nouveau, oss4, rx550 for qemu passthrough
Acer laptop E5-575, i3-7100u - i965, alsa
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5.0.13 zen kernel, profile 17.1 (no-pie & modified) amd64-no-multilib
gcc 8.2.0, eudev, openrc, openbox, palemoon

skellr · Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 11:11 pm Post subject:

Ctrl + Alt F2

dendro · n00b Joined: 21 Jul 2018 Posts: 43