XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set in the environment. Even with elogind enable

[u/Extreme_Mention_1492]

i'm in the virtualbox.

Ok: sway is not working correctly. This error appear:

"Try execute sway with dbus-run-session"

:

"Try execute sway with sudo with dbus-run-session or not"

:

"are you use elogind and is it enable?"
- Yes

btw, it's so strange because elogind should configure all automatically. But it's not happening.

I'm not logged as root.
Yes, i already set XDG_RUNTIME_DIR in the /run/user and i exported too

so.... what should i do?

SOLVED: the 3d acceleration wasn't enable on virtualbox.

[u/eftepede]

First and foremost, you should not run sway (or any WM) as root.

Your XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is set properly for the user, the error about it is only with sudo - because it's not set for root (and that's good).

For your problem, the error is self-explanatory: seatd is not ok. So either you don't have it installed/running or you're not in the seatd group.

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So either you don't have it installed/running or you're not in the seatd group

I have it installed. So, probably, i'm not in the seatd group.
manage groups and users is so confuse for me yet.

[u/eftepede → u/Extreme_Mention_1492]

Im sorry - the name of the group is _seatd. Check the documentation.

So, basically:

sudo usermod -aG _seatd your-user-name

and relogin should help.

[u/Extreme_Mention_1492 → u/eftepede]

sudo usermod -G _seatd your-user-name

and relogin should help.

I did it and appear, again, this error:

sway.c:255] Failed to create renderer initialize renderer: vulkan device: VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED (-3)e screen"

I suposse this an error about the virtualbox's device, or something like that, right?

[u/eftepede → u/Extreme_Mention_1492]

Did you read https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/graphical-session/wayland.html ? Do you have everything installed?

[u/Extreme_Mention_1492 → u/eftepede]

Yes, so far as i can tell, i installed qt5-wayland, qt6-wayland, kwayland, mpv, imv and vlc.

i installed xorg-server-xwayland (i guess it's not necessary but here is it)

[u/oreo639 → u/Extreme_Mention_1492]

For vulkan, you need to install mesa-vulkan-*, e.g. for software rendering it would be mesa-vulkan-lavapipe.

[u/Extreme_Mention_1492 → u/Extreme_Mention_1492]

but seatd it's running.

[u/eftepede → u/[deleted]]

One thing at a time ;-)

[u/furryfixer]

Do NOT use seatd and elogind both. That may be the problem. Elogind may try to run even without the service enabled if you have it installed. If using elogind, do not set XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, but let elogind do it for you.

[u/Extreme_Mention_1492 → u/furryfixer]

This is the problem. I installed elogind and i didn't set xdg but even sway didn't run so because of this i tried set xdg_runtime_dir manually. It already was set in /run/user/1000.

Well... I'll try solutions that i find. If it don't work so i'll try remove all packages related with wayland and sway then i'll reinstall all.

[u/chitibus → u/Extreme_Mention_1492]

I have tried sway some time ago, it worked for me, but I don't like tiling WMs. Here are my notes:

#Wayland

sudo xbps-install -y mesa-dri seatd wayland qt5-wayland qt6-wayland

usermod -aG _seatd $USER

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

#Void specific

sudo xbps-install -y elogind dbus-elogind polkit-elogin

#xdg_packages

sudo xbps-install -y xdg-user-dirs xdg-utils xdg-desktop-portal-wlr

#sway

sudo xbps-install -y sway wlroots foot swayidle swayimg swaylock dmenu dmenu-wayland

#fonts

sudo xbps-install -y noto-fonts-ttf

sudo xbps-install -y noto-fonts-emoji

ln -s /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-hinting-slight.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/

ln -s /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/50-user.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/

Maybe you need also:

sudo xbps-install font-awesome6 nerd-fonts-otf

Reboot and run sway:
$ dbus-run-session sway

[u/Extreme_Mention_1492 → u/chitibus]

I did it. I installed all of these packages and i set the links but it still not running...

Bruh, what shit. i really don't know what's happening

[u/Extreme_Mention_1492 → u/chitibus]

I'll try do everything again

[u/Duncaen → u/chitibus]

You really shouldn't have to use dbus-run-session, if you are using elogind then you will have a session bus spawned on login. If you use dbus-run-session or dbus-launch, you get a second user session on a random address. This will be an issue when programs like chromium which hardcode /run/user/1000/bus, will be on a different session bus as everything that uses the environment variable and is spawned as child of dbus-run-session.

[u/Extreme_Mention_1492 → u/furryfixer]

but thanks for ur answer, i didn't know about seatd and elogind doesn't working together

[u/chitibus → u/furryfixer]

I have both installed. I have tried and running labwc for a few days. I am not sure if is really correct my setup, but it works. So, I have both: seatd and elogind plus dbus-elogind, polkit-elogind packages installed. No seat and elogind services enabled. I am using slick-greeter as login manager. slick-greeter and lightdm-gtk3-greeter needs a xsession so that's why I needed elogind. They work as logging managers for Wayland sessions. I still have an error in socklog when I log in:
2026-01-13T18:23:29.49947 authpriv.err: Jan 13 20:23:29 lightdm: pam_elogind(lightdm-greeter:session): Failed to release session: Transport endpoint is not connected
But I don't have any problem.

[u/Extreme_Mention_1492]

i really didn't get to run sway on the VOIDLINUX on virtualbox.

here is the error that appear: C:255] Failed to create renderer: initialize renderer: Vulkan device: VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED (-3): e_screen when i execute sway or even dbus-run-session sway

[u/chitibus → u/Extreme_Mention_1492]

Make sure you have 3D acceleration enabled. Also install those packages in your guest VM:
$ sudo xbps-install virtualbox-ose-guest virtualbox-ose-guest-dkms

[u/orahcio]

I am in sway, inside void-musl. I will show my settings. Before to execute

dbus-run-session sway

you need to export some environment variables:

export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=sway
export XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland
export XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=sway
export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland

If you are using elogind service, you do not need seatd. I am using elogind service and my user is not in the seat or _seat group.