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Help with wayland/sway (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

So I finally switched my desktop from windows to EOS after years of running headless linux servers.

I'm having a good time of it but I want to be one of the cool kids and use a tiling windows manager. And ive been loving that too. Except I can't get links to open from discord and steam can't open the file browser. I could just boot into KDE or GNOME to add non-steam games to my library but I don't want to goddamnit. What can I do to start fixing this issue? Haven't found any solutions online.

Edit: looks like I found the solution, portal was installed but never ran at startup. A quick exec inside the sway config has solved my issues. Thank you everybody!

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[-] communism@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

Not sure what ly is but basically I'm saying you should be using the dbus-run-session sway command to run sway instead of just sway. If dbus is installed and the daemon is running then this will allow you to e.g. open links in Discord.

[-] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Turns out the portal was installed but never ran at startup. Ive put an exec command in my sway config and now everything works. Appreciate both of you :)

[-] TruePe4rl@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

ly is a TUI greeter

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