Keybindings do not work when Hyprland is launched from tty

[sockbot]

System details

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4260U (4) @ 2.70 GHz
Intel Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller @ 1.00 GHz [Integrated]
Omarchy 3.2.3

What's wrong?

Observed behaviour

When launching Hyprland from tty, most keyboard shortcuts do not work, including the omarchy menu. The only keyboard shortcut that I have discovered is working so far is SUPER + ENTER to launch a terminal window.

Expected behaviour

Launching hyprland from tty behaves the same as when hyprland is launched via systemd graphical.target

Steps to reproduce

• Set system to multiuser target to boot to tty: sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target
• Reboot system
• Login to tty
• Launch hyprland from terminal hyprland
• Attempt to launch walker menu with SUPER + ALT + SPACE (fails) or other keybinding SUPER + K (fails)

[dhh]

Omarchy is not designed to have Hyprland started from tty. It's designed to run through sddm. So you're on your own if you want to do it via the TTY.

[sockbot]

For future readers, I was able to launch Hyprland from tty with working keybindings using uwsm.

uwsm start hyprland.desktop

This command should ensure that the display manager environment setup is done correctly so launching from tty behaves the same as from sddm.

Further reading: https://wiki.hypr.land/Useful-Utilities/Systemd-start/#launching-hyprland-with-uwsm