garden/journal/2023-07-27.md

• 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 :)
  • Picked up Obsidian again after a looong time to show it to Venisa.