Hello people, just switched to Alpine and it would be great if some of the Apine users could share some dotfiles that are running Wayland compositors. I have not figured out to make swayidle work and some other stuff. By the way I am running River but this happened aswell on a fresh install with the Sway option of setup-desktop script.

I get some errors of unknown session with swayidle and conky, but I have set the corresponding environment variables and launching with dbus-run-session -- river

River init file:

export XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=river
export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=river
dbus-update-activation-environment WAYLAND_DISPLAY XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=river

Shell env file:

export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="$(mkrundir)"
export XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland
export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland
export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland
export GDK_BACKEND=wayland
export MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1
export _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1

If you encountered some quirks of your own please let me know. Thanks in advance!

  • Subm77@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    What is the output of swayidle -d and from loginctl?
    You may not be running within an elogind session which could explain the unknown session error.

    • sanderium@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      You are exactly right, I was running seatd. Switching to elogind solved the problem.

      This was the output by the way: 
      2025-07-26 19:39:32 - [Line 750] Register idle timeout at 10000 ms
2025-07-26 19:39:32 - [Line 751] Setup idle
2025-07-26 19:39:32 - [Line 713] Command: doas /usr/sbin/zz
2025-07-26 19:39:32 - [Line 1083] Loaded config at /home/alec/.config/swayidle/config
2025-07-26 19:39:32 - [Line 439] GetSession failed: The name org.freedesktop.login1 was not provided by any .service files
2025-07-26 19:39:32 - [Line 448] GetSessionByPID failed: The name org.freedesktop.login1 was not provided by any .service files
2025-07-26 19:39:32 - [Line 450] Failed to find session
2025-07-26 19:39:32 - [Line 281] Failed to parse get BlockInhibited property: Host is unreachable
2025-07-26 19:39:32 - [Line 621] Enable idle timeouts
2025-07-26 19:39:32 - [Line 596] Register with timeout: 10000
      • MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        28 days ago

        Yep, the login1 errors are the giveaway - elogind provides that dbus interface that swayidle needs for session management, while seatd is more minimal and dosn’t implement the full logind API that many Wayland apps expect.

    • Subm77@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      The Output from swayidle -d should be similar to the following lines

      2025-07-27 01:34:16 - [Line 1078] No config file found.  
2025-07-27 01:34:16 - [Line 463] Using session: /org/freedesktop/login1/session/c4  
2025-07-27 01:34:16 - [Line 1151] No command specified! Nothing to do, will exit

      and the ouput from loginctl should list the session from the second line of the swayidle -d output.

      SESSION  UID USER   SEAT  TTY  STATE  IDLE SINCE  
     c4 1000 subm77 seat0 tty3 active no   -    

1 sessions listed.

      If that is not the case you could look into setting up a login manager like greetd.