Ly on ARM64 doesn't detect any session other than shell and xinitrc

[marco-04]

I compiled ly both on Arch and Debian (testing) ARM64 VMs, and contrarily to other display managers, like gdm, it didn't detect the session files residing in the "/usr/share/xsessions" directory. I tried with both Gnome and XFCE

[marco-04]

Yeah, I have the same problem on Asahi Linux with a recursive clone

[AnErrupTion]

@marco-04 There is an xsessions option in the configuration file, did you try it?

[marco-04]

I probably did when I first tried it, but I can't confirm because now I can't even launch it anymore on Asahi, as it just crashes

[AnErrupTion]

Ah, could you try now please? There was a slight mistake in the repo that's now fixed :D @marco-04

[marco-04]

Just tried, and it doesn't work unfortunately. The same thing happens also for wayland sessions with those options uncommented from the /etc/ly/config.ini file

[PaddiM8]

I'm experiencing the same thing, on aarch64

[PaddiM8]

I experimented a bit and managed to get it to retrieve the sessions and could successfully start sway. Not sure if it breaks anything else, but... I added the following to configator.c in the configator submodule:

if (disc < 0) {
    i = 0;
}

on line 45.

The data seemed to be retrieved correctly, but the configator search function ended up only looking at index 1 when the length was 2. I don't know if this is a good fix, it just happened to make it work for me. I have basically no experience with C...

[lucidph3nx]

I can confirm that the solution by @PaddiM8 works with Asahi on M1 Mac booting a sway wayland session.

[mellowgeekcc]

Yes, the solution also works on Raspberry 4 booting Xorg sessions.

[praxis88]

can confirm this works on arch/manjaro arm

[nougatbyte]

This also fixes session selection on Raspberry Pi CM4 (bookworm/arm64)

[AnErrupTion]

I'm marking this issue as fixed for the Zig rewrite, since it doesn't use configator anymore.