06-01-2021, 06:54 AM
(06-01-2021, 04:23 AM)lusk Wrote: Hi, since I got my Pinebook Pro yesterday (yay!). Since I'm a fan of Alpine Linux I decided to try the Sway flavoured image of postmarketOS. But I'm not able to open any windows it seems. I can see the background image, date in right corner and workplace number on the left (I presume) but that's it. Pressing logo key + Enter does nothing (meaning no window gets displayed). Pressing logo key + d reveals names of programs at the very top but selecting alacritty and hitting Enter does nothing as well. I've tried this image: https://images.postmarketos.org/pinebook...ler.img.xz and also today's edge build https://images.postmarketos.org/bpo/edge...ler.img.xz without any luck. I might be missing something obvious but at the moment I can't think of anything. Could someone please confirm that any of those images works for them out of the box and they are able to open terminal from within the window manager? Thanks!
Never mind, I've figured it out. I used a postmarketOS image with no desktop environment, installed sway manually (after figuring out how to connect to my wifi
I followed the steps at https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Sway + installed elogind) and ran sway manually (which allowed me to see its error messages) only to find out that alacritty needs "GPU capable of running GLSL 3.30 or higher" (see https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/3624 for details). So I edited sway config file to start alacritty with LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 variable (as suggested in comments at GH) and it seems to work!