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no user folders with sddm
# questions
u
Hi, i'm trying to learn how to build my image with sway the hard way (i'm starting from ghcr.io/ublue-os/base-main without ever attempting something like this), i've arrived to have the installer working and sddm login working, but the installer is not generating the user folders. I tought xdg-user-dirs should take care of it, do i need to add something else to the recipe other then installing it? i had tried with gdm and with it the folders where created
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g
How did you install to your PC? Did you create an ISO or did you find one somewhere else?
u
I used bluebuild generate-iso pointing to the image built on github from the action, i installed it on a VM on TrueNas to test it
g
What
--variant
did you use ?
u
i left the default one, maybe i should try to use Server since i'm using a base image and not building from kinoite nor silverblue?
g
The kinoite version should have created a user for you
Did you go through that process in anaconda?
u
yes it presented the classic install process, the user is created but the home folder has no folders inside except the ones in skel
g
Hmm yeah I'm not sure. I've not tried installing from a sway image
u
i'm not sure if the problem is related to sway or to sddm, using gdm as suggested on the sway repo it create the folders, but it also install gnome
i think i've come to the conclusion that the problem is sway, i've tryied with sway-atomic from fedora, with an empty recipe, so basically the pure image from fedora, and using kinoite it does not generate a user folder inside /var/home, if i'm not wrong fedora-atomic-sway use titanoboa instead of anaconda, so probably that one do something under the hood that anaconda take for granted will be done by gnome/kde