On Fri Jun 24, 2022 at 5:21 PM BST, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote: > - Is Xorg launched by SDDM? does it does it because sway fails?
I thought SDDM Wayland support didn't exist yet, but apparently I'm wrong. > - Where is XDG_RUNTIME_DIR supposed to be set? XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is set by either elogind or greetd (which requires Rust) iirc. You can also set it yourself in .profile or something: --- .profile export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$(id -u)" --- > And in general does someone has pointers on which direction to try to > look to debug that issue (to be able to get it fixed at some point)? Two things you might want to know: (1) SDDM does not support seatd, only elogind: --- /home/paren/code/guix/gnu/packages/display-managers.scm (define-public sddm (package (inputs (list elogind #| if both were supported, it would use libseat, not elogind |#)) --- (2) Sway does not officially support DMs, though GDM and greetd seem to work well, and Tobias (nckx) was using sway with SDDM if I remember correctly: --- https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/master/README.md Run sway from a TTY. Some display managers may work but are not supported by sway (gdm is known to work fairly well). --- -- (