Qtile… the default bar is really nice to use and if you know a little python every aspect of the WM is easy to hack around in. Docs are great too.

Probably doing that anyway

you dont say the o/s but if the pkg manager works, or you can add a statically compiled version, you could force reinstall all pkgs

Depends if you’re using a graphical login manager or not. If so, you’ll have to search the name of it and ‘autologin’ in your favourite search engine. Its typically no more then checking a box and adding your username.

I dont use a graphical login manager, I just let it boot up and agetty (from util-linux) logs me directly into my shell (because I added -u ’ to the config.). Then my shell profile takes care of starting the graphical environment for me.

Its just personal choice but I dont see any point in a login manager when Im the only one logging in. I understand that it may come as part of the desktop suite though. I prefer to start with nothing and add what I want versus getting everything and removing what I dont want

for 1, in linux no output is often indicitive of no problem. To verify if your previous command exited successfully, type ‘echo $?’ at the command line and if its anything but 0 its an error.

For 3, I do the same but since I’m the only user I auto login so its still just one password to enter to get to a desktop.

Nothing to really fix because thats the design. In userland you can do anything, system wide needs elevated credentials. If you don’t want the password prompt, look into aliases and sudoers/pkexec