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ameNiku

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Registered: 2024-05-02

Posts: 7

running easyeffects on wayland in background

I can't run easyeffects with the --gapplication-service flag on Wayland. I couldn't find a similar problem on the Internet, there is only a solution for X11. As a WM i use Hyprland.

in terminal:

$ easyeffects --gapplication-service           
Failed to register: Unable to acquire bus name 'com.github.wwmm.easyeffects'


$ sudo easyeffects --gapplication-service                         
[sudo] : 
Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified

(easyeffects:6868): Gtk-WARNING **: 14:02:47.425: Failed to open display

I will be glad to receive any help

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,142

Re: running easyeffects on wayland in background

if it can't acquire the bus, chances are you're launching hyprland in a way that thrashes your DBUS session, what output do you get from

loginctl session-status
printenv | grep DBUS

Side note, sudo is not a "make this thing work harder" shortcut. There's absolutely never a reason you'd want to run easyeffect as root and you should get out of the habit of slapping sudo in front of things because of error messages. While harmless in this case, many situations could be catastrophic.

granddave

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Registered: 2024-12-21

Posts: 1

Re: running easyeffects on wayland in background

$ sudo easyeffects --gapplication-service                         

You might want to run sudo like this to preserve the environment variables:

$ sudo -E easyeffects --gapplication-service                         

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,142

Re: running easyeffects on wayland in background

No you don't. You never run this tool with sudo and there's no reason for it

MHanak

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From: Poland

Registered: 2024-10-28

Posts: 2

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Re: running easyeffects on wayland in background

Hiya, i know this was over a year ago, but if anyone encounters the same issue, there's a good chance you have another instance of easyeffects already open, close that and it should work

and if it still doesn't then good luck