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From: Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de>
To: Bone Baboon <bone.baboon@disroot.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Starting Sway a Wayland window manager
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 11:07:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmzingl5.fsf@dismail.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0pqf4m6.fsf@disroot.org> (Bone Baboon's message of "Mon, 29 Mar 2021 09:53:37 -0400")

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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  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-29 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-28  0:43 Starting Sway a Wayland window manager Bone Baboon
2021-03-28  1:05 ` jbranso
2021-03-28  1:30 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2021-03-28  2:27   ` Joshua Branson
2021-03-28 16:45     ` Joshua Branson
2021-03-29 13:53       ` Bone Baboon
2021-03-29 15:07         ` Joshua Branson [this message]
2021-03-29  3:19     ` Bone Baboon
2021-03-29  3:55       ` Joshua Branson
2021-03-29 13:45         ` Bone Baboon
2021-03-29 18:23           ` Vagrant Cascadian
2021-03-31 21:12             ` Bone Baboon
2021-03-31 22:41               ` Vagrant Cascadian
2021-03-29  3:14   ` Bone Baboon
2021-03-29  3:54     ` Joshua Branson
2021-03-29 15:37 ` raingloom

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