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Graphical console greeter for greetd
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How to test my greetd/tuigreet config #160

Closed teto closed 1 month ago

teto commented 1 month ago

I want to test my config without logging out of my session since it is slow and cumbersome. I tried to start greetd -s /path/to/sock so that I can export GREETD_SOCK before starting tuigreet but no /path/to/sock gets created.

teto commented 1 month ago

I am running 0.9.1 and "Choose sessions" is empty even though I've configured tuigreet with a valid --sessions /nix/store/.../share/wayland-sessions folder that contains a sway.desktop. starting tuigreet -d /tmp/tuigreet.log doesn't create anyfile (it starts as the "greetd" user), do I need to export some variable before to toggle debugging ?.

apognu commented 1 month ago

I cannot really help as far as to how to run another greetd instance. However, for development, I use a small piece of software that I developed, greetd-stub, that simulates greetd's RPC without actually creating session.

It might not be perfect and I will not provide support for it, but you can give it a try.

As for your sessions issue, it's a bit hard to determine. I've added some more debugging likes to the master version if you're willing to try. But yes, running tuigreet -d should be enough.

teto commented 1 month ago

it actually worked after a reboot. The greetd unit was updated but the service was not reloaded (probably because it kills your current session) so my changes were not accounted for, /tmp/tuigreet.log was created, my sway.desktop was seen by tuigreet and I managed to make it see my gnome desktop (my initial goal). Sry for noise.