[artix-general] [s6] wayland and perhaps pipewire

[Dudemanguy]

On 1/20/21 7:28 PM, Javier via artix-general wrote:
> So I wanted to start exploring wayland, but 
> 1st I wanted to know if there would be 
> any limitation with S6, on a day to day usage.

Wayland works just fine via elogind. In fact, Sway is my daily driver.
Technically, it is possible to run sway without using logind (the
key thing is that you need access to /dev/dri/card0 at some point),
but it's not something you should do. As for pipewire, I'm not as sure
since I don't use it. I *think* the only systemd related part of
pipewire is that it can use systemd's socket activation feature. I'm
pretty sure pipewire just operates over standard UNIX sockets, so
there isn't any limitation with non-systemd inits.

Maybe it might be necessary to write some pipewire init scripts at
some point in the future. Not sure if it's supposed to operate like a
userspace daemon or not.