diff --git a/journal/2023-07-27.md b/journal/2023-07-27.md index fd28e70cf..c4c80cdf2 100644 --- a/journal/2023-07-27.md +++ b/journal/2023-07-27.md @@ -1,13 +1,14 @@ - [[work]] - [[Flancia]] - [[wayland]] - - [[autostart]] - - [[systemd]] - - #push [[kill wayland]] - - #push [[autostart]] - - After much debugging I finally realized the issue was not with systemd trying to start vnc while wayland was still not running, crashing too many times and then giving up (like I long thought it was), but rather that the vnc service was not depending on a target that was actually being triggered. - - Trying to set up [[vnc]] so it starts only after wayland/a graphical session is running and it's proving harder than expected for not the first time :) - - I would expect to add a Requires or WantedBy in the systemd unit, but alas, it's not as easy as that? - - I use [[sway]] so maybe the right targets aren't there by default though, as that's supposed to be solved by a "[[desktop environment]]". - - Somehow I ended up at https://github.com/jceb/dex which, beyonds its scope in a friendly way, tells me of how to configure a [[systemd autostart]] in a way that maybe could work. Plot twist: it didn't. - - https://github.com/maximbaz/dotfiles/issues/23 showed the way: the issue was that nothing was triggering graphical-session.target. I added a line to my sway config to do that as per the first comment in the issue (thank you [[maximbaz]] on github) and that was enough to fix my long standing woes. This feels like freedom :) + - [[autostart]] + - [[systemd]] + - #push [[kill wayland]] + - #push [[autostart]] + - After much debugging I finally realized the issue was not with systemd trying to start vnc while wayland was still not running, crashing too many times and then giving up (like I long thought it was), but rather that the vnc service was not depending on a target that was actually being triggered. + - Trying to set up [[vnc]] so it starts only after wayland/a graphical session is running and it's proving harder than expected for not the first time :) + - I would expect to add a Requires or WantedBy in the systemd unit, but alas, it's not as easy as that? + - I use [[sway]] so maybe the right targets aren't there by default though, as that's supposed to be solved by a "[[desktop environment]]". + - Somehow I ended up at https://github.com/jceb/dex which, beyonds its scope in a friendly way, tells me of how to configure a [[systemd autostart]] in a way that maybe could work. Plot twist: it didn't. + - https://github.com/maximbaz/dotfiles/issues/23 showed the way: the issue was that nothing was triggering graphical-session.target. I added a line to my sway config to do that as per the first comment in the issue (thank you [[maximbaz]] on github) and that was enough to fix my long standing woes. This feels like freedom :) + - \ No newline at end of file