Skip to content

Latest commit

 

History

History
29 lines (21 loc) · 1.09 KB

systemd.md

File metadata and controls

29 lines (21 loc) · 1.09 KB
Raw

Integration with systemd

It is likely that you are a systemd user, and you want newm to integrate with with it. To do this you must add the following to your configuration file in the on_startup function:

def on_startup():
    os.system("systemctl --user import-environment DISPLAY WAYLAND_DISPLAY XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP")
    os.system("hash dbus-update-activation-environment 2>/dev/null && \
        dbus-update-activation-environment --systemd DISPLAY \
        WAYLAND_DISPLAY XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP")

With this, systemd and newm are seamlessly integrated.

Note: if you did not follow this add =wlroots to XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP

newm-cmd lock can be used to achieve locking on hibernate in order to have the computer restart in a locked state by placing the following in e.g. /lib/systemd/system-sleep/00-lock.sh

#!/bin/sh
/usr/[local/]/bin/newm-cmd lock-$1

Depending on installation process this might not work right ahead, assystemd runs these scripts in a clean environment as root. To check:

su root
env -i /usr/[local/]bin/newm-cmd lock-pre