Where does Sway VM store its logs in NixOS

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I want to inspect some sway startup troubles in my NixOS configuration:https://github.com/gabyx/dotfiles

Does anybody know where I find the log output of the sway instance?Also how can I inspect exec ... calls, do they output also to the sway log?

I have a ~/.config/sway/scripts/start-up.sh script which does not launch, and I dont know why:

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Sway logs to stdout/stderr, so what you could do is run from a TTY and redirect the output into a logfile, for example via

sway |& tee sway.log

The more elaborate alternative would be to use a systemd unit.

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If it’s logging to stdout, it should show up in journalctl. Also check journalctl --user!

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Do you also know how to restart sway, instead of logging out, is that done via systemctl ...?

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A restart of sway would effectively log you out.

Why would you need to do that though? Are there sway logs in the journal?

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Ah just messing with my sway config file, ok I then use logout to restart :). Thanks for the kind help!!

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Ah, if you just want to apply a new config file, there’s a shortcut/sway command for that.

# reload the configuration file
bindsym $mod+Shift+c reload
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Ah thanks, no I mean to completely restart sway with all the startup code.