• Bug#1006329: Acknowledgement (xwayland does not update dbus activation

    From the dude@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Aug 2 11:10:01 2025
    XPost: linux.debian.maint.x

    On Thu, 24 Feb 2022 11:38:51 +0100 <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 2022-02-23 20:52, Jameson Graef Rollins wrote:
    I might be mischaracterizing this as an Xwayland issue. Maybe it's a
    sway issue?

    It's definitely not an Xwayland issue; Xwayland (like any other X server) itself doesn't set these environment variables or launch any X11 client processes.

    I just ran into this issue. There seems to be a race condition or
    ordering issue when first logging in after a boot. Sway will set the environment varables correctly when
    /etc/sway/config.d/50-systemd-user.conf is included in
    ~/.config/sway/config, but this happens _after_ systemd starts xdg-desktop-portal-gtk. I confirmed this by adding

    ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/echo $DISPLAY $WAYLAND_DISPLAY

    to the xdg-desktop-portal-gtk unit. After logging in for the first time
    after a boot, systemctl --user status xdg-dekstop-portal-gtk looks like
    this:

    ~~~
    Aug 02 10:18:05 hostname systemd[2255]: Starting
    xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service - Portal service (GTK/GNOME
    implementation)...
    Aug 02 10:18:05 hostname (echo)[2382]: xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service: Referenced but unset environment variable evaluates to an empty string: DISPLAY, WAYLAND_DISPLAY
    Aug 02 10:18:05 hostname xdg-desktop-por[2383]: cannot open display:
    Aug 02 10:18:05 hostname systemd[2255]: xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service:
    Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
    Aug 02 10:18:05 hostname systemd[2255]: xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service:
    Failed with result 'exit-code'.
    Aug 02 10:18:05 hostname systemd[2255]: Failed to start xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service - Portal service (GTK/GNOME implementation).
    ~~~

    After a systemctl --user restart xdg-desktop-portal-gtk the variables
    are set:

    ~~~
    Aug 02 10:19:39 hostname systemd[2255]: Starting
    xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service - Portal service (GTK/GNOME
    implementation)...
    Aug 02 10:19:39 hostname echo[2788]: :0 wayland-1
    Aug 02 10:19:39 hostname systemd[2255]: Started
    xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service - Portal service (GTK/GNOME implementation).
    ~~~

    Does anyone have an idea how best to fix this? Do we need to add a
    dependency to the xdg-desktop-portal-gtk unit? But what dependency?

    Best regards,
    -- Martin

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