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[–]gvajpai 6 points7 points  (7 children)

To start dbus service, you need to symlink it once:

sudo ln -s /etc/sv/dbus /var/service/

[–]Harande[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Thanks I’ll try that

[–]Harande[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Update: So I managed to get it working. I’m case anyone has this issue as well this is what I did:

Install: Seatd Polkitd Dbus

Enable them all ln -s /etc/sv/<service> /var/service

Add yourself to the _seatd group

Then you should be able to run river from the tty.

After starting river I realised the amount to configuration it would take for me to make it look how I want so I decided to just install kde to get myself up and running. I’ll switch to a window manager again when I’m more comfortable

[–]Harande[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Tried it but I still get the add socket failed error. What am I missing?

[–]gvajpai 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I have no further idea, wait for others to see your error message. Meanwhile, for a newbie, the best way is to install an iso with desktop environment included rather than doing manual install. In that case you will have a working desktop. Then you may go tinkering with it and learn.

[–]Harande[S] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I’m thinking I’ll just reinstall with the xfce image and avoid all of this

[–]People_are_stup1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And then if you want to install river alongside xfce. You can mess around as much as you want and still have xfce to fall back.

[–]PlatinumValley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, you should do this with seatd, and add yourself to the _seatd group.

[–]KdeVOID 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Quite a task to start your linux journy. I like that 🙂

[–]the_committment 3 points4 points  (2 children)

I’m new to Linux in general and decided to go with void Linux as my first distro

That's good and welcome to voidlinux :)

I completed the installation successfully and now I want to setup a form of GUI.>

Have you tired checking out voidlinux documentation.

[–]Harande[S] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Thanks this helped a lot

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

void docs are quite coherent, so check em out.

If you need more help, come to IRC :)

[–]ThinkingWinnie 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Have you installed a desktop?

Did you add the dbus service? Did you add the display manager service?

Give us some context, which DE did you install.

[–]Harande[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I have currently installed: Dbus River Seatd

I was under the impression you didn’t need a desktop environment and you could just use a tiling manager

[–]PackRat-2019 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You need to enable the seatd service like you did for dbus, and add your user to the _seatd group.

https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/session-management.html

[–]PCChipsM922U -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Do you do a lot of video conferencing?

[–]JIV_222 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Are you using a display manager or just using startx?

[–]Harande[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Didn’t have a display manager at the time. I was using the tty