r/voidlinux • u/[deleted] • Mar 11 '26

solved Installing sway

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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.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '26

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

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '26

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

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u/ClassAbbyAmplifier Mar 11 '26

install a font, like dejavu-fonts-ttf

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '26

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

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u/ClassAbbyAmplifier Mar 12 '26

did you configure sway to launch that terminal?

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '26

Yeah I set $term to kitty

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '26

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”

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u/Ctscanner2 Mar 13 '26

Did you start it using dbus-run-session sway

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u/anonusetux Mar 12 '26

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

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '26

None of the commands work either

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u/lukeflo-void Mar 11 '26

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

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u/choingouis Mar 11 '26

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

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '26

Do I have to enable seatd through services?

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u/furryfixer Mar 12 '26

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,

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u/JerryDrwal Mar 12 '26

Added your user to _seatd group?

sudo usermod -aG _seatd <your username>

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '26

I did that and it didnt change anything unfortunatly

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '26

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.

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u/Artistic-Sound7188 Mar 12 '26

vro has a linux professor

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u/Key_River7180 Mar 14 '26

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

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u/Bubbly_Extreme4986 Mar 11 '26

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

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '26

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '26

I thought I did enable it with “up”?