Cannot get IPC working

[audiossis]

I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, but it seems my Google-Fu is not strong. I've followed the instructions in PyWayfire git page and attempted to establish control of the Wayfire compositor over IPC, but it doesn't seem to work.

Clearly I'm doing something wrong, but I can't seem to understand what.

I've configured Wayfire.ini with the specified plugins (ipc, ipc-rules and stipc), the appropriate socket gets created at /run/user/$(id -u)/wayland-1, and the python module loads without error, but when I run any of the example scripts, they just time-out and return nothing or they hang (depending on which version of the python library I load).

I've tried this on both RPiOS and Gentoo running on my Pi4B, both with the same result

Running Wayfire with the debug switch doesn't reveal much to me, but I'm clearly missing something.

I'd love it if someone could please point me in the right direction.

[ammen99]

What you mentioned is the Wayland socket, not Wayfire's IPC socket. The IPC socket is placed according to the rules here:

wayfire/plugins/ipc/ipc.cpp

Line 347 in cee51fd

char *pre_socket = getenv("_WAYFIRE_SOCKET");

Since you mention RPi, I hope you are running latest Wayfire release (0.9), the default version on RPi is 0.7.x which doesn't have IPC at all.

[audiossis]

Thanks for the reply. What you say makes sense. I suspected that the IPC feature might be missing from the RPiOS version of Wayfire, but I couldn't find any information confirming that, so thanks again for the clarification. I'll try building Wayfire from source on RPiOS instead or try the Wayfire-9999 embuild on Gentoo.

That said, the pyWayfire library instructions explicitly tell me to connect to that socket, so if that's wrong, then those instructions need to be updated/corrected, because that's very misleading.

If /run/user/$(id -u)/wayland-1 is the wrong IPC socket, then I expect when I have the correct version for Wayfire installed, it'll create a socket named accordingly? The same way that SwayWM does?

[soreau]

If /run/user/$(id -u)/wayland-1 is the wrong IPC socket, then I expect when I have the correct version for Wayfire installed, it'll create a socket named accordingly? The same way that SwayWM does?

If IPC plugin is loaded, then in wayfire environment, the socket can be found with echo $WAYFIRE_SOCKET

[ammen99]

But you're right, the socket path is wrong in the readme, PRs welcome :)