Black screen when switching to desktop mode (bazzite-deck-gnome:stable)
Hi,
I am running bazzite-deck-gnome:stable on my Steam Deck. Most of the time I have it docked to an external monitor in desktop mode.
Now I cannot get into desktop mode anymore. If I press "Switch to Desktop" I only get a black screen with no mouse pointer. I also cannot press ctrl+alt+F2 to get to a terminal at that point. It doesn't matter if I have the dock connected or not.
I can get to a terminal in gaming mode by pressing ctrl+alt+F2
The last changes I made were:
- enabling the decks integrated screen in Gnome settings (previously I had it disabled and only the external monitor enabled)
- changing the wallpaper with HydraPaper to get different wallpapers on the external monitor and integrated screen
Here is what I already tried:
- renaming ~/.config/monitors.xml to monitors.xml.bk (in case me changing the monitor settings was the cause)
- running ujust fix-reset-steam
- using the bazzite-rollback-helper to rollback to an older 43 version
- then to rebase to version 42 stable
Nothing of this helped and I don't know what else to do, I hope someone can help me with this.
I would be extremely grateful
I am running bazzite-deck-gnome:stable on my Steam Deck. Most of the time I have it docked to an external monitor in desktop mode.
Now I cannot get into desktop mode anymore. If I press "Switch to Desktop" I only get a black screen with no mouse pointer. I also cannot press ctrl+alt+F2 to get to a terminal at that point. It doesn't matter if I have the dock connected or not.
I can get to a terminal in gaming mode by pressing ctrl+alt+F2
The last changes I made were:
- enabling the decks integrated screen in Gnome settings (previously I had it disabled and only the external monitor enabled)
- changing the wallpaper with HydraPaper to get different wallpapers on the external monitor and integrated screen
Here is what I already tried:
- renaming ~/.config/monitors.xml to monitors.xml.bk (in case me changing the monitor settings was the cause)
- running ujust fix-reset-steam
- using the bazzite-rollback-helper to rollback to an older 43 version
- then to rebase to version 42 stable
Nothing of this helped and I don't know what else to do, I hope someone can help me with this.
I would be extremely grateful
Solution
Update: I was able to get to the Gnome shell by pressing ctrl+alt+F2 in gaming mode and entering
I then rebased back to :stable from :stable-42 since that wasn't the problem and rebooted.
Then I opened the gnome shell again with
After the reboot I tried entering desktop mode the regular way and it worked! But the extensions were enabled again...?
So, maybe the extension updates fixed it? I don't know, but I'm happy, that I can access my desktop again
If someone knows how I can find out for sure what the issue was, I would be interested! Otherwise I will mark this as solved, since my problem is gone for now.
gnome-shell --waylandI then rebased back to :stable from :stable-42 since that wasn't the problem and rebooted.
Then I opened the gnome shell again with
gnome-shell --waylandAfter the reboot I tried entering desktop mode the regular way and it worked! But the extensions were enabled again...?
So, maybe the extension updates fixed it? I don't know, but I'm happy, that I can access my desktop again
If someone knows how I can find out for sure what the issue was, I would be interested! Otherwise I will mark this as solved, since my problem is gone for now.
