01:48 <polyrtm> this is probably a noob question but why does river not take up the whole display when i start it even though the output is configured correctly? there's a gray bar on the right side of my screen

01:53 <polyrtm> wow was that the first message in 2 days oops

02:19 <polyrtm> okay i have figured out that it only happens when i start river from a display manager

12:45 <leon-p> huh, so apparently restarting the DBUS daemon kills river. The more you know...

12:48 <leon-p> so polyrtm has unfortunately left, but if anyone else has this issue: This is caused by the display manager starting the X server because it thinks river is an X WM. So river will run as a window inside X.

12:49 <ifreund> heh, I was wondering what was going wrong there :D

13:15 <polyrtm> hello i saw the discussion on the logs

13:16 <polyrtm> i thought it might be something similar, how do I get the dm to run it as a wayland compositor then?

13:19 <leon-p> The DM must have support for Wayland sessions, otherwise you are out of luck.

13:19 <leon-p> which one are you using?

13:21 <polyrtm> i tried both sddm and lightdm

13:22 <polyrtm> I'm also on nixos which complicates things slightly

13:23 <leon-p> lightdm definitely did not support Wayland up until recently (also can't remember if it does now, actually)

13:23 <leon-p> gdm is known to work

13:24 <polyrtm> i tried starting gdm with wayland enabled and it just hung

13:24 <leon-p> (also you need to put the river session file into the wayland session directory)

13:24 <polyrtm> yeah nixos complicates that slightly but i did the equivalent of that

13:24 <polyrtm> although it might out it in the x session directory

13:25 <polyrtm> lemme check

13:25 <leon-p> I unfortunately can't help you debug your DM setup, however my recommendations are 1) check if your DM version supports Wayland, 2) check if your river session is correctly picked up as a Wayaldn session

13:28 <polyrtm> okay thanks

13:43 <polyrtm> okay apparently it just puts everything in the x sessions and for it to be put in the wayland sessions list the package has to provide a session file in /share/wayland-sessions

13:43 <polyrtm> so to get this to work i may have to patch the nixos package