WayfireSocket and systemctl not working well on boot?

[vdegenne]

I have an ipc script I want to execute on boot, which uses wayfire socket to detect viewport switches. Here's my systemctl config file:

[Unit]
Description=Run run-script-on-viewport-change python script
After=graphical.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 %h/.config/wayfire/ipc-scripts/run-script-on-viewport-change.py
WorkingDirectory=%h/.config/wayfire/ipc-scripts/
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

After noticing it wasn't working on boot because the socket was unavailable, my first guess was the script was probably call too early on startup. So I used a loop to await for the socket, here's my final script:

from wayfire import WayfireSocket
import subprocess

TARGET_WINDOW = "Alacritty"

while True:
    try:
        events_sock = WayfireSocket()
        break
    except Exception as e:
        print("Wayfire socket not available, retrying in 5 seconds...")
        time.sleep(5)

events_sock.watch(["view-focused"])

last_window = None

while True:
    msg = events_sock.read_message()

    if msg["view"] is not None:
        current_window = msg["view"]["app-id"]

        if last_window == TARGET_WINDOW:
            subprocess.run(
                ['$HOME/.config/tmux/tmux-save-nvim.sh'], shell=True)

        last_window = current_window

Unfortunately this is still not working, (notice the print in the script), it keeps printing "Wayfire socket not available, ret.....".

Can you help me to find a clean (and working) solution? Thanks

[soreau]

You probably want to have wayfire autostart plugin run this for you. This way, WAYFIRE_SOCKET will be set.

[vdegenne]

Perfect thanks! I moved it there and it simply works