how do i run this?

[szymon420699]

starting the systemd service doesnt work nor starting the server please help thanks

[mike-lloyd03]

Might be helpful to include the error messages you're getting when trying to start the server.

[jamesponddotco]

Same problem here. When trying to run swayosd-client --output-volume raise, for example, I get:

Could not connect to SwayOSD Server with error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.erikreider.swayosd-server was not provided by any .service files

Running swayosd-client with any commands or arguments result in the same error.

systemctl status swayosd-libinput-backend.service shows the service running and no error messages are displayed in the journal.

I'm running openSUSE Tumbleweed, if that matters. I'm guessing the DBUS files went to the wrong place or something.

EDIT: They were installed correctly, it seems. /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services has a org.erikreider.swayosd.service file and /usr/share/dbus-1/system.d has a org.erikreider.swayosd.conf file.

EDIT2: I installed it like this, if it matters:

meson setup --prefix /usr --libexecdir lib --sbindir bin --buildtype release --auto-features enabled --wrap-mode nodownload -D b_pie=true -D python.bytecompile=1 build
ninja -C build
meson install -C build

[jamesponddotco]

Found the problem, I feel stupid. Forgot to add exec swayosd-server to sway's config file 🤦