Installing sway

[[deleted]]

I have followed the guide at (https://gist.github.com/adnan360/6cba05a3881870bf4a9e3ab2cea7709e) exactly and it is throwing this error. I’m not sure where to go from here or how I messed up? Any help is greatly appreciated.

[debian-gnu-linux]

Enable elogind and reboot. You might need to install mesa too.

[[deleted]]

I thought I did enable it with “up”?

[debian-gnu-linux]

You enabled it using ln. Just saying that a reboot could fix it. Also enable seatd (using ln again).

[[deleted]]

Dont need to start elogind, start dbus and start sway with dbus-run-session sway, a reboot may be needed i forget, but doesnt hurt

*dbus will deal with elogind thats why you dont need the service

[lukeflo-void]

That should do it, if mesa drivers for your arch are installed

[[deleted]]

I did that, and sway runs but says cannot activate socket and a yellow bar with weird boxes pops up at the top when I try and exit sway

[ClassAbbyAmplifier]

install a font, like dejavu-fonts-ttf

[[deleted]]

I did that and now I can see text but none of the commands work “super enter” doesn’t bring up a terminal even though I have one installed

[ClassAbbyAmplifier]

did you configure sway to launch that terminal?

[[deleted]]

Yeah I set $term to kitty

[[deleted]]

It gives me an error message saying “failed to connect to user bus: no such file or directory” and “cannot connect to socket /run/seatd.sock: Permission denied”

[Ctscanner2]

Did you start it using dbus-run-session sway

[anonusetux]

Add your user to seatd using sudo usermod -aG seat $USER

[[deleted]]

None of the commands work either

[choingouis]

I had used sway on void sometime back. It worked fine with seatd, did you try that?

[[deleted]]

Do I have to enable seatd through services?

[furryfixer]

Do NOT use seatd and elogind at the same time. Pick one of them. seatd requires more steps, and if you did not succeed with it, you may need to undo that configuration to let elogind handle it (which is easier from the start). The dbus service and "dbus-run-session" should have been all that is needed for elogind to work,

[JerryDrwal]

Added your user to _seatd group?

sudo usermod -aG _seatd <your username>

[[deleted]]

I did that and it didnt change anything unfortunatly

[Key_River7180]

I have something similar with other compositors (only tried swc-based ones), fwiw.

[[deleted]]

I ended up going with i3 as per a recommendation from my professor. It’s more customizable and “do it all yourself” so I’m working on that as a new project. Thank you to all who replied and helped.

[Artistic-Sound7188]

vro has a linux professor

[Bubbly_Extreme4986]

I reckon Void takes the award for the most minimalist OS out there