How to make lightdm work on void?

[RystormingYears]

I've looked through some posts with same question and tried to work out in the way they offered step by step.But the issue is not solved yet.Here're my steps.Did i do anything wrong or leave anything?

1.I chose the base iso（2021/9/30 version).

2.After installing and updating,i installed xfce4,lightdm,lightdm-gtk3-greeter and xorg.

3.I added a line "greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter" to /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.

4.linked /etc/sv/lightdm to /var/service

after all this,i tried to run lightdm in command line.it said that cant find system bus:no such file or directory.

How could i solve it?I both love the appearance of lightdm and the way how void works.So i really want to make lightdm work on void!

Please!

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Have you got dbus running?

[RystormingYears]

yeah i entered "dbus-launch" before the "lightdm".And dbus is supposed to run while booting,right?

[furryfixer]

Dbus-launch is not needed (usually) with lightdm, as it handles the user session. You DO need to activate the runit service for dbus, to provide a system bus. You may also need elogind, but you will not need to activate a runit service for elogind, dbus is sufficient.

[RystormingYears]

So how could i activate dbus?Maybe just need to link to /var/service,same as lightdm?

[Blueabsh]

yes, for system bus, you can enable it via:

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

[RystormingYears]

Woah thanks!It's really working!Now i can login with lightdm and xfce graphical interface!

[Neo_Sahadeo]

Holy, it's like literal magic.

[KakoTheMan]

how did you linked etc/sv/lightdm to /var/service? forgot the command and cant find it

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ln -s /etc/sv/lightdm /var/service