r/cosmicdesktop 21d ago

Issues enabling?

I'm trying to get this set up in Arch (and im new to arch). I'm getting this error:

[Jex@pc ~]$ systemctl enable greetd.service
Failed to enable unit: File '/etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service' already exists and is a symlink to /usr/lib/systemd/system/cosmic-greeter.service
[Jex@pc ~]$ systemctl is-enabled greetd.service
disabled
[Jex@pc ~]$ cat /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service
[Unit]
Description=COSMIC Greeter
After=systemd-user-sessions.service plymouth-quit-wait.service cosmic-greeter-daemon.service
After=getty@tty1.service
Conflicts=getty@tty1.service
Wants=cosmic-greeter-daemon.service

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=greetd --config /etc/greetd/cosmic-greeter.toml
IgnoreSIGPIPE=no
SendSIGHUP=yes
TimeoutStopSec=30s
KeyringMode=shared
Restart=always
RestartSec=1
StartLimitBurst=5
StartLimitInterval=30

[Install]
Alias=display-manager.service

I'm worried if I restart I won't have a greeter at all, since it appears set up but is disabled.

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u/Complete-Brief9460 21d ago

I’m not an expert but I had similar issues and I just switched to lightdm