03:05 <noob20329810983> Hi, is there anyone using river on nix that would be willing to share their dotfiles for inspiration? I'm new to flakes

10:22 <__root__> I am not using seatd and when I close down river the termninal is all screwed up and not even a 'reset' will fix it. It seems most of the keys are dropped and I have to press the keys several times to get any feedback

10:23 <__root__> hyprland and sway does not have this issue, so I wonder whats likely going on and causing an issue with my setup with river

10:24 <__root__> also, I am wondering how people are compiling river, because it depends on wlroots and wlroots depends on the Xorg dev buildchain. which basically needs 101 different Xorg packages. not very pleasant to work with that dependency hell

10:27 <__root__> or perhaps I misremembered the problem, it was maybe xkbcommon that had that dependency tree. yes its xkbcommon

10:27 <__root__> https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/7.9/general/libxkbcommon.html

10:27 <__root__> the required chain always comes up to this:

10:27 <__root__> https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/7.9/x/xorg7.html#xorg-env

10:28 <ifreund> no way to get away from xkbcommon unfortunately, it's a non-issue though generally as all distros package it

10:28 <ifreund> if you're doing LFS I can't imagine this is the most painful part

10:29 <__root__> well, right now it is. because I solved most of the other packaging stuff. but i have like 50 packages in my chain and almost all of them are thigns I want. There is nothing from the Xorg build chain that I want. except this xkbcommon thing for river..

10:29 <ifreund> as for the first thing you mentioned, could you capture river's stderr output and share that in a paste bin?

10:29 <__root__> should I run river with some kind of debug mode to get the most useful output?

10:31 <ifreund> __root__: a debug build of river could help print a stack trace if it's crashng on exit or something

10:31 <ifreund> (a debug build is the default with no optimization option specified)

10:32 <ifreund> __root__: also, that libxkbcommon page you linked is for a very old version

10:32 <ifreund> modern versions allow building with X11 support disabled

10:33 <ifreund> perhaps that would help?

10:37 <__root__> https://youtu.be/ylDOyg0Kt_A?si=pxBJV08Qolfrfodm

10:38 <__root__> ifreund: good idea, I might be able to simplify the build of xkbcommon compared to the instructions given by LFS?

10:40 <ifreund> __root__: as far as I understand it, all that should be needed for wayland is the libxkbcommon shared library (which I believe has no dependencies) and the keyboard layout definitions provided by xkeyboard-config

10:41 <ifreund> and you could probably get away without xkeyboard-config if you only care about a single layout and get that single layout file somehow

10:45 <__root__> the youtube thing shows the issue with the keyboard input. Not a critical thing right now, but eventually something I want to resolve.

10:46 <ifreund> __root__: probably river is not exiting cleanly and leaving the tty in raw mode, does sysrq+r fix it?

10:47 <ifreund> in any case, this shouldn't be happening and the log I asked for should help debug why it is happening

10:51 <__root__> that fixed it. I was able to fix the keyboard input by writing echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq .. yes I am using a non-default sys init as well

10:53 <__root__> good stuff. very useful help thank you

13:34 <chupson> Hey I'm having an issue with the Brave browser - the "Save As" option seems to be doing absolutely nothing. I tried running Brave on sway, and "Save As" works perfectly fine there, launching a window asking where I want to save the file. What's interesting, is that after testing it on sway, when I closed sway and opened river again, it suddenly started working, until I rebooted my computer

13:42 <vyivel> sounds related to xdg-desktop-portal

13:45 <chupson> You're probably right, but I know very little about the topic. How should I go about fixing my issue?

14:00 <chupson> Nevermind, uninstalling the xdg-desktop-portal-gtk seems to have fixed the issue