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Bazzite•11mo ago•
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Reece Taylor

Black screen on Gaming Mode.

Tried a few things to fix this but I just cannot seem to fix it. BUt basically my gaming mode keeps coming with a black screen and won't launch. I can open a TTY and launch desktop mode I get the following:

Error: Could not determine $DISPLAY
Error: Can not contact kdeinit5!
org.kde.startup: "kdeinit5_shutdown" QList() exited with code 255
Error: Could not determine $DISPLAY
Error: Can not contact kdeinit5!
org.kde.startup: "kdeinit5_shutdown" QList() exited with code 255


I haven't done a reinstall yet but hoping that's a last resort
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