DWL not launching as GDM session about dwl

[fauxmight]

@seagoj Are you able to run dwl without GDM?

Have you set any particular bindings in your config.h file?

[PalanixYT]

the black black screen is alright as dwl does not ship a background by default.
Have you checked if you are using the correct keybindings? By default, dwl uses the alt key instead of the super key.

[seagoj]

Yes, none of the bindings I've added work and alt+p doesn't launch bemenu and shift+alt+q doesn't kill it.

Something is happening though, because the screen does change from totally black to a slightly lighter black.

I can launch dwl from the TTL just fine. It only fails via GDM

[fauxmight]

@seagoj Modify the .desktop file used for launching dwl from GDM to redirect stderr (like /path/to/dwl 2>/tmp/dwl.log) and see if dwl is even starting.

[seagoj]

@fauxmight

amdgpu: amdgpu_cs_ctx_create2 failed. (-13)
00:00:00.043 [ERROR] [xwayland/sockets.c:63] Failed to bind socket @/tmp/.X11-unix/X0: Address already in use
00:00:00.043 [ERROR] [xwayland/sockets.c:63] Failed to bind socket @/tmp/.X11-unix/X1: Address already in use
00:00:00.072 [ERROR] [backend/x11/backend.c:695] X11 error: op ChangeProperty (no minor), code Atom (no extension), sequence 62, value 0
00:00:00.072 [ERROR] [backend/x11/backend.c:695] X11 error: op ChangeProperty (no minor), code Atom (no extension), sequence 63, value 0
00:00:00.072 [ERROR] [backend/x11/backend.c:695] X11 error: op ChangeProperty (no minor), code Atom (no extension), sequence 64, value 0

Compared to launching from the TTY:

amdgpu: amdgpu_cs_ctx_create2 failed. (-13)
00:00:00.062 [ERROR] [xwayland/sockets.c:63] Failed to bind socket @/tmp/.X11-unix/X0: Address already in use