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[BUG]Blank Hyprland Session #65

@VigneshR387

Description

@VigneshR387

Describe the bug
Blank screen with a cursor is shown when loaded from the login screen

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Go to 'Login screen or tty'
  2. Click on 'click hyprland and login'
  3. Blank Screen with a cursor shows up

Expected behavior
completely configured and working hyprland session

Distribution (please complete the following information):

  • CachyOS(Arch)

Additional context
Initially ran the dot installer and the script that came along with it and seems like everything was properly installed including ml4w settings but the hyprland session fails to load properly

Log from the script installation

DO YOU WANT TO START THE PACKAGE INSTALLATION NOW? (Yy/Nn): y
:: Installation started.

:: The installer requires yay. yay will be installed now
[sudo] password for vigr: 
:: base-devel is already installed.
fatal: could not create work tree dir '/yay': Permission denied
./setup-arch.sh: line 83: cd: /yay: No such file or directory
==> ERROR: PKGBUILD does not exist.
:: yay has been installed successfully.
:: wget is already installed.
:: unzip is already installed.
:: git is already installed.
:: hyprland is already installed.
:: xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland is already installed.
:: qt5-wayland is already installed.
:: qt6-wayland is already installed.
:: vim is already installed.
:: fastfetch is already installed.
:: ttf-fira-sans is already installed.
:: jq is already installed.
:: networkmanager is already installed.
:: wireplumber is already installed.
:: flatpak is already installed.
Package not installed:
gum
Package not installed:
waybar
Package not installed:
rofi-wayland
Package not installed:
kitty
Package not installed:
dunst
Package not installed:
thunar
Package not installed:
hyprpaper
Package not installed:
hyprlock
Package not installed:
firefox
Package not installed:
ttf-font-awesome
Package not installed:
ttf-fira-code
Package not installed:
ttf-firacode-nerd
Package not installed:
brightnessctl
Package not installed:
wlogout
./setup-arch.sh: line 108: yay: command not found
:: Installing com.ml4w.hyprlandsettings

:: Downloading com.ml4w.hyprlandsettings
--2025-06-14 09:50:00--  https://github.com/mylinuxforwork/hyprland-settings/releases/latest/download/com.ml4w.hyprlandsettings.flatpak
Loaded CA certificate '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt'
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 20.207.73.82
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|20.207.73.82|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://github.com/mylinuxforwork/hyprland-settings/releases/download/2.1/com.ml4w.hyprlandsettings.flatpak [following]
--2025-06-14 09:50:00--  https://github.com/mylinuxforwork/hyprland-settings/releases/download/2.1/com.ml4w.hyprlandsettings.flatpak
Reusing existing connection to github.com:443.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://objects.githubusercontent.com/github-production-release-asset-2e65be/828459483/9d934899-4ace-437c-aad0-4de3066bcc84?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=releaseassetproduction%2F20250614%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250614T041915Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Signature=857779690a46b604d029856b148a8925c61f18d12d6354cf1ade54535f7aedc0&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3Dcom.ml4w.hyprlandsettings.flatpak&response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream [following]
--2025-06-14 09:50:00--  https://objects.githubusercontent.com/github-production-release-asset-2e65be/828459483/9d934899-4ace-437c-aad0-4de3066bcc84?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=releaseassetproduction%2F20250614%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250614T041915Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Signature=857779690a46b604d029856b148a8925c61f18d12d6354cf1ade54535f7aedc0&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3Dcom.ml4w.hyprlandsettings.flatpak&response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream
Resolving objects.githubusercontent.com (objects.githubusercontent.com)... 185.199.110.133, 185.199.111.133, 185.199.109.133, ...
Connecting to objects.githubusercontent.com (objects.githubusercontent.com)|185.199.110.133|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 84000 (82K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘/home/vigr/.cache/com.ml4w.hyprlandsettings.flatpak’

com.ml4w.hyprlandsettings.fla 100%[===============================================>]  82.03K  --.-KB/s    in 0.02s   

2025-06-14 09:50:02 (3.92 MB/s) - ‘/home/vigr/.cache/com.ml4w.hyprlandsettings.flatpak’ saved [84000/84000]


com.ml4w.hyprlandsettings permissions:
    ipc                   network               fallback-x11      wayland      x11      dri
    file access [1]       dbus access [2]

    [1] home
    [2] org.freedesktop.Flatpak


        ID                               Branch        Op        Remote                         Download
 1. [✗] com.ml4w.hyprlandsettings        master        i         hyprlandsettings-origin        0 bytes

error: Failed to install bundle com.ml4w.hyprlandsettings: This version of com.ml4w.hyprlandsettings is already installed

:: Setup complete. Run the app with flatpak run com.ml4w.hyprlandsettings
:: Installation complete.
:: Ready to install the dotfiles with the Dotfiles Installer.



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