Re: Starting Sway a Wayland window manager

[Joshua Branson]

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

> Joshua Branson writes:
>
>> I also just realized that sway started for me when I changed
>> %base-services to %desktop-services.
>
> If I reconfigure the system with `%desktop-services`:
>
> ```
>  (services %desktop-services)
> ```
>
> 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.".


hmmm,  maybe this will help.  Here's my current guix config:

https://notabug.org/jbranso/guix-config/src/master/sway.scm

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