Comment by chlorion

3 years ago

Yes I can confirm that Wayland runs fine without systemd!

I am on Gentoo and using openrc and sway runs fine. The only thing that might kind of rely on systemd is sway-idle which wants logind (or to run as root iirc).

I know you know this, being the sway and wlroots maintainer and all but I figured I would show a concrete example of this working fine.

2 comments

chlorion

Reply
emersion  3 years ago

FWIW, swayidle only has an optional dependency on logind. It can be built without. In fact, we're even discussing removing the logind-related features from swayidle. (swayidle never required running as root though.)

  • chlorion  3 years ago

    Whoops! The Gentoo use flag on swayidle says

        elogind : Enable support for rootless session via elogind

    I think this is just a generic description shared between all packages with this flag though!

    Maybe I can suggest that this be fixed to reduce confusion.