Sddm on Hyperling's Written Works

Sddm on Hyperling's Written Works/tags/sddm/Recent content in Sddm on Hyperling's Written WorksHugoen<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-NC 4.0</a>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0700Artix with runit and i3/posts/guides/tech/20260919-artix-dconf-issues/Sat, 19 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0700/posts/guides/tech/20260919-artix-dconf-issues/Introduction Sometimes when logging in to my Artix installation I’d get an array of dconf errors from multiple programs. i3’s status bar would not show up, certain programs like Codium would not launch, and the system would just behave in peculiar ways. dconf-CRITICAL **: 07:54:25.230: unable to create directory '/run/user/1000/dconf': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. Checking logind would show that it was running, and loginctl list-sessions would list the session, but the /run/user directory would be completely empty.