Re: DBus with SDDM, Sway, and optionally fish

[Sébastien Lerique]

Hi Joshua,

Great that you have the same setup :)

> > With the two changes above (setting DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS in
> > .profile, and patching wayland-session), apps can connect to 
> > dbus
> > inside Sway. But this seems extremely hacky. Is there maybe a 
> > better
> > way to make sure SDDM+Sway(+fish) is set up properly as a 
> > desktop
> > enviroment? Is it time to make a `sway-desktop-service-type`?
>
> I'm all game for the above.  ^  I've been working on that for a 
> while
> now.  I've work coding on said problem on my video channel here:
>
> https://video.hardlimit.com/my-library/video-playlists/06baf279-76ea-406a-a24d-2fcfefecbf35
>
> I'll tag the below code.  It's the basic define-record-type* 
> that people
> may find useful in generating the sway config file.
>
> I'm taking a break from writing the sway service, because I 
> couldn't
> figure out how to get the darn service to start.  So now I'm 
> working on
> and endlessh service.  (I actually posted a patch here:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-patches/2021-03/msg00672.html)
>
> Here is my current sway-service.scm code

Thanks for sharing that! It's a bit too far from what I know for 
me to be able to contribute right now, but I'll be sure to come 
back to the thread if one day I have the time.

Sébastien