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Hmm, no that is not working well. It should boot to a login screen, not a console. You can start Sway from a console like you mentioned, but the environment variables for the session will not be set because that is being handled by the login manager (https://github.com/EndeavourOS-Community-Editions/sway/blob/main/etc/greetd/regreet.toml).

I don’t see Greetd failing or anything in that journal you posted, but I do see it closing the greeter session and then logging in user guy:

17:20:41 greetd[886]: config: Config { file: ConfigFile { terminal: ConfigTerminal { vt: None, switch: false }, general: ConfigGeneral { source_profile: true, runfile: "/run/greetd.run", service: "greetd" }, default_session: ConfigSession { command: "", user: "", service: "" }, initial_session: None }, internal: ConfigInternal { session_worker: 12 } }
17:20:50 greetd[753]: pam_unix(greetd:session): session closed for user greeter
17:20:50 systemd[1]: session-1.scope: Deactivated successfully.
17:20:50 systemd[1]: session-1.scope: Consumed 1.163s CPU time, 341.6M memory peak.
17:20:50 systemd-logind[630]: Session 1 logged out. Waiting for processes to exit.
17:20:50 greetd[886]: pam_unix(greetd:session): session opened for user guy(uid=1000) by guy(uid=0)
17:20:50 systemd-logind[630]: Removed session 1.
17:20:50 systemd-logind[630]: New session 3 of user guy.
17:20:50 systemd[1]: Created slice User Slice of UID 1000.
17:20:50 systemd[1]: Starting User Runtime Directory /run/user/1000...
17:20:51 systemd[1]: Finished User Runtime Directory /run/user/1000.
17:20:51 systemd[1]: Starting User Manager for UID 1000...

Did you check the box to enable auto-login in the installer (on the screen where you set the user password)?

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Did you check the box to enable auto-login in the installer (on the screen where you set the user password)?

Not that I can recall. I usually never use auto-login. Thanks for the quick reply. I’m glad that the link worked as I’ve never used pastebinit before.

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Are you getting to the login screen? Be sure to select the “Sway” session before you log in.

If you will excuse the lousy photo, this is the drop-down menu for the session:

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As for the delay while booting, test if you get the delay while booting the fallback image. Test also the LTS kernel to see if there is any difference.

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Miracle fix by doing nothing - or almost nothing! As it’s a home-built box using a SFF case I had difficulty fitting a 2nd SSD and had to change a SATA connector so I think that’s what caused the slow boot-up. After the change it booted very quickly and choosing the Sway button - only choice on the greeter screen - it opened the tiling manager straight away.

I’m loving how extremely snappy and responsive it is. If I can get all my apps that I use on my old machine to work here I might drop its Plasma desktop and move to Sway. Is there a chance that this might be added to the list of desktops on the standard EnOS install? I think it merits a place. Congratulations on the config work and thanks for you quick replies.

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