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From: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org>
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Hello,

On 2020-08-13 01:00, Max wrote:
> Dear Alpine users,
> 
> does anybody of you use Sway?
> I tried to install Sway by this
> [instructions](https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Sway).
> 
> Without installing elogind nothing starts with the error of no detected
> session.
> Upon searching I found hints to install elogind as necessary requirement.
> 
> However now, after installing and setting elogind to be started on boot
> (without further configuration), I get blackscreens.
> 
> Does anybody have an idea how to fix this?

You need to be part of the video group in order to run a wayland 
compositor.  elogind will handle this for you if you use a manager like 
sddm, otherwise you should make sure you are in video group yourself.

You can do this with `addgroup $user video`.

Ariadne