Hi Prescott > It's been a while but luckily I've kept all my config changes in a git repo!
Thank you for your quick response and being able to dig this up! > >How do you select to start bspwm: via a menu in your DM, after logging into > >your DM, from your ~/.xsession, ~/.xinitrc, etc.? > So I start bspwm by running `startx` at boot and had `exec bspwm` as the WM > launch command This might be the crucial point: I’m guessing you are using ~/.xinitrc? If you can reproduce the issue with ~/.xinitrc, could you test whether it also occurs when you use ~/.xsession instead (i.e. remove ~/.xinitrc!)? AFAICT /etc/X11/Xsession.d/95dbus_update-activation-env sets up dbus correctly but everything in /etc/X11/Xsession* is only active if startx runs /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and it will not if ~/.xinitrc exists. Thank you henk On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 11:25:16 -0600 Prescott HM <presc...@hidalgo-monroy.com> wrote: > >I’m thinking your (dbus) environment is not initialized correctly when > >starting your X-session. How do you start it? > >Do you use some Display Manager, like xdm, gdm, etc.? > >How do you select to start bspwm: via a menu in your DM, after logging into > >your DM, from your ~/.xsession, ~/.xinitrc, etc.? > > It's been a while but luckily I've kept all my config changes in a git repo! > > So I start bspwm by running `startx` at boot and had `exec bspwm` as the WM > launch command, but had gotten it fixed by correctly starting it with `exec > dbus- run-session -- bspwm`. > > I think the biggest issue was as someone new to trying out lauching a > graphical > session without a display manager, there really wasn't any indication of > what exactly is needed to manually start that's taken for granted. It finally > clicked when I started using other programs that require a D-Bus environment, > and trying out Void Linux on some machines had me going through their docs > where it's clearly stated that a session bus may be required for some > software.
