As of version 1.17, xdg-desktop-portal requires desktops to declare
which portals should be used. For Sway, this requires a file
/usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal/sway-portals.conf (or a local user
config).
A reasonable default is to use GTK for the file picker (as wlr doesn't
have file picker support) and wlr for screencast/screenshot support.
Fedora does this similarly. [1]
Upstream is not interested in shipping a configuration file [2] so we
need to do it downstream.
Fixes#72297Fixes#79883
[1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/sway/blob/rawhide/f/sway-portals.conf
[2] https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/7773
The new CAP_SYS_NICE capability granted to sway interferes with user xkb
configs. A patch has been introduced/merged [1] but has yet to see release.
[1] 2f2cdd60de
Since seatd has become a requirement for sway's logind support, we can leverage
this package to also obtain elevated system privileges instead of polkit.
Note that using seatd instead of polkit means that a user must be a part of the
"seat" group: Otherwise, the user will not be able to achieve the appropriate
privileged actions.
Also remove a few unnecessary extra packages from the optdepends to give polkit
a bit more visibility.
Without polkit Sway fails to obtain CAP_SYS_ADMIN to become a DRM master. This ensures that a base Arch installation + pacman -S sway gives a working session.
conf.d was created to house 10-systemd.sh but the default config references
config.d.
the shell script was also converted to sway configuration. Same result,
different format; It seems more right to the author.
See FS#63021 for more details
Brett Cornwall