[TRICK] create missing XDG RUNTIME DIR [Solved]

[gor9]

most people will have it working correctly. But I have been playing with 2 ttys....tty7 runs icewm and tty1 sometimes runs sway.
I have not worked out if that is the reason....but my work around works so here it is

firstly run....edit correction

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env | grep 1000

one of the results should show your XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000, unless you have 2 more users?

so my work around is an executable such that

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cat /usr/local/bin/run-dir 
#!/bin/sh

DIR=/run/user/1000
if [ ! -d $DIR ] ; then mkdir -p $DIR && echo "not found so creating"
    else echo "found"
fi
chmod 0700 $DIR
chown -R gor:gor $DIR
ls -al /run/user

change gor to your local login name please

2) if you missing the runtime dir then run

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sudo run-dir

and hopefully you fix it by seeing

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sudo run-dir
not found so creating
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  60 Sep 25 12:30 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 860 Sep 25 12:16 ..
drwx------  2 gor  gor   40 Sep 25 12:30 1000

and then

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export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
env | grep 1000

my output
GPG_AGENT_INFO=/run/user/1000/gnupg/S.gpg-agent:0:1
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000

Hope that helps someone if they are playing with 2 open displays at once

[bassplayer69]

most people will have it working correctly. But I have been playing with 2 ttys....tty7 runs icewm and tty1 sometimes runs sway.
I have not worked out if that is the reason....but my work around works so here it is

firstly run

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env | 1000

one of the results should show your XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000, unless you have 2 more users?

....

That code line should be:

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env | grep 1000

[gor9]

oops got it right at the bottom sorry about that.