Re: remark about some Desktop session processes

The best way I see it, is to install such units as dependencies for 
specific DEs, if DEs themselves can be represented as units. Stock sway 
and other wlroots compositors in debian do not do that.

But at least this is how I solved this situation in my wayland session 
manager: https://github.com/Vladimir-csp/uwsm/tree/master/example-units

On 06/12/2023 21.31, Patrice Duroux wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a system with both Sway and GNOME sessions available.
>
> But if I log in using a GNOME one, I can see the process like:
>
> patrice     3866  0.0  0.0  18824 14212 ?        Ss   19:07   0:00
> /usr/bin/foot --server=3
>
> $ apt-file search --fixed-string /usr/bin/foot
> foot: /usr/bin/foot
> $ apt --installed rdepends foot
> foot
> Reverse Depends:
>    Recommande: sway
>    Recommande: sway
>
> Similarly I have the following messages in system log:
>
> $ journalctl -S today | grep waybar
> déc. 06 19:07:59 kos-moceratops systemd[2650]: Started waybar.service
> - Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based
> compositors..
> déc. 06 19:07:59 kos-moceratops waybar[4235]: [2023-12-06
> 19:07:59.603] [info] Using configuration file /etc/xdg/waybar/config
> déc. 06 19:07:59 kos-moceratops waybar[4235]: [2023-12-06
> 19:07:59.604] [info] Using CSS file /etc/xdg/waybar/style.css
> déc. 06 19:07:59 kos-moceratops waybar[4235]: [2023-12-06
> 19:07:59.607] [error] Failed to acquire required resources.
> déc. 06 19:07:59 kos-moceratops systemd[2650]: waybar.service: Main
> process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
> déc. 06 19:07:59 kos-moceratops systemd[2650]: waybar.service: Failed
> with result 'exit-code'.
> déc. 06 19:07:59 kos-moceratops systemd[2650]: waybar.service:
> Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
> déc. 06 19:07:59 kos-moceratops systemd[2650]: waybar.service: Start
> request repeated too quickly.
> déc. 06 19:07:59 kos-moceratops systemd[2650]: waybar.service: Failed
> with result 'exit-code'.
> déc. 06 19:07:59 kos-moceratops systemd[2650]: Failed to start
> waybar.service - Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots
> based compositors..
>
> (see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1027069)
>
> Is there a nice way to not mix-up those session specific services?
>
> Regards,
> Patrice
>