Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 09:37:25 +0000 From: Johannes Lundberg <johalun0@gmail.com> To: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org>, "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sway Working on 12.0? Message-ID: <a89bf646-1254-a24d-761c-a9a2e260f5c3@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <23225300-6f80-f39b-783a-3e9a9b623a7a@nomadlogic.org> References: <23225300-6f80-f39b-783a-3e9a9b623a7a@nomadlogic.org>
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On 1/12/19 11:48 PM, Pete Wright wrote:
> hi there,
> i've been trying to get the sway pkg working on my 12.0-RELEASE system
> and am kind of stuck. i was wondering if anyone else has it working
> on their end. i am able to start sway, my mouse works, but i am
> unable to get keyboard input working.
>
> the sway docs seem to be classic linux docs, i.e. incomplete and
> misleading. my current setup to run sway looks like this (setting
> things manually until i've got a working config, then will update our
> wiki and set things up properlly)
>
>
> export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/tmp/sway"
> mkdir $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
> chmod 770 $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
> sudo chmod g+rw /dev/input/*
> sway -V -c $HOME/.config/sway/config >./tmp/sway-output 2>&1
>
>
> according to the log output it looks like sway is detecting my
> keyboard device via libinput, and the fact that i have a working mouse
> is kind of confusing to me. so any pointers would be really appreciated!
Hi
This is what I have (since wlc era, haven't tried with wlroots backend)
if ( ! $?XDG_RUNTIME_DIR ) then
setenv XDG_RUNTIME_DIR /tmp/${uid}-runtime-dir
if ( ! -d "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" ) then
mkdir "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"
chmod 0700 "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"
endif
endif
# XKB For Sway:
setenv XKB_DEFAULT_RULES evdev
setenv XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT us,us
setenv XKB_DEFAULT_OPTIONS caps:ctrl_modifier,shift:both_capslock_cancel
>
> cheers,
> -pete
>
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