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I installed LXDM and LightDM, I couldn't login from the DM in either cases, so I decided to run LXQt using startx which worked, except I couldn't sudo from the terminal emulator inside LXQt, while I was able to sudo normally in tty, I've tried enabling elogind, nothing changed, my user is in the wheel group and my system is up to date

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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

What does "doesn't allow sudo" mean? Did you get an error that provided a reason? What exactly did you do?

[–] lonesomeCat@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It says incorrect password, I'm pretty sure it is entered correctly

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 hours ago

But what does. Be specific. Are you prompted on the CLI or is there a pop-up window that you're entering credentials into?

[–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I dont use neither void and neither x11, but that seems like a common thing that should be mentioned in the docs? i think

[–] lonesomeCat@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I looked up void docs, the only recommended thing I found was enabling elogind :/

[–] khorovodoved@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Try starting with dbus session. Also try lxqt-session and startlxqt commands.

[–] lonesomeCat@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

I've tried

exec dbus-run-session -- startlxqt

Nothing changed

I also tried

exec lxqt-session

It ran a broken session with no panel, I tried to sudo from there but it also said incorrect password

[–] Lantern@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What shell are you running in your terminal? If I’m remembering correctly, it’s recommended to set the shells during the installation, so that could be the issue here.

[–] lonesomeCat@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Both bash and fish are returning incorrect password upon trying to execute any command with sudo

[–] Lantern@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Interesting, could also be the tty. If it’s causing you a lot of trouble, you might want to just reinstall.

[–] lonesomeCat@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

Reinstalled the xfce build, everything works well, except my controller tho