Re: Starting Sway a Wayland window manager

[Joshua Branson]

Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> writes:

> On 2021-03-27, Bone Baboon wrote:
>> I have installed Sway a Wayland window manager.
>>
>> I have copied the `gnu/store/<hash>-sway-1.5.1/etc/sway/config` to
>> `~/.sway/config`.
>>
>> When I run `sway` or `sudo sway` on virtual terminal 1 it outputs
>> "XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set in the environment. Aborting.".  `man sway`
>> and `sway --help` does not mention `XDG_RUNTIME_DIR`.  An suggestions on
>> how to deal with this error?
>
> Is the elogind service running? I *think* that is what I needed to get
> sway working from the console...

That seems to be the trick.

My .bash_profile is here:

#+BEGIN_SRC sh
# Honor per-interactive-shell startup file
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc; fi

# shepherd

if [[ -z $DISPLAY ]] && [[ $(tty) = /dev/tty1 ]]; then
    export MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1
    export GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH=/home/joshua/prog/gnu/guix/guix-packages/
    
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share:/home/joshua/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share:$XDG_DATA_DIRS
    # this may fix a bug that I have with termite confusing backspace as space 
in guix environment
    # export TERM=linux
    shepherd -c /home/joshua/.config/shepherd/init.scm &
    exec dbus-run-session sway
fi
#+END_SRC

>
> live well,
>   vagrant
>

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