Re: Starting Sway a Wayland window manager

[Joshua Branson]

Bone Baboon <bone.baboon@disroot.org> writes:

> Vagrant Cascadian writes:
>
>> Is the elogind service running? I *think* that is what I needed to get
>> sway working from the console...
>
> I have added the `elogind` service.  Here is the services section of my
> systems configuration:
>
> ```
>  (services
>   (append
>    (list
>     (service elogind-service-type)
>     (service accountsservice-service-type)
>     (service inputattach-service-type)
>     x11-socket-directory-service
>     polkit-wheel-service)
>    %base-services))
> ```

Change %base-services to %desktop-services.  That will probably fix it
for you.

>
> When I run `sudo herd status` the output shows that `elogind` is
> started.
>
> When I run `sway` on virtual terminal 1 sway does not start and I get
> this output: 
>
> ```
> localhost dbus-daemon[380]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; 
> type="method_call", sender=":1.24" (uid=1000 pid=26112 comm="sway ") 
> interface="org.freedesktop.login1.Session" member="SetType" error 
> name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination="org.freedesktop.login1" 
> (uid=0 pid=381 comm="/gnu/store/jdk3r1gs4d36n3aj9fscsvwwc9prnrzp-elogin")
> [backend/backend.c:303] Failed to open any DRM device
> [sway/server.c:49] Unable to create backend
> ```
>
> When I run `sudo sway` it outputs "XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set in the
> environment. Aborting.".
>

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