I’m trying to set up my own Lemmy server with Docker. I think I have everything set up, but I’m getting an error Cannot autolaunch D-Bus without X11 $DISPLAY. This error kind of makes sense, because I’m SSHing into my server and have not forwarded D-Bus connections, so $DISPLAY is undefined. But why does a Lemmy server need a display in the first place? Is this a bug and a display isn’t actually needed? If I set $DISPLAY to whatever, will it still run okay?
all i know is… that ssh can have configuration turned on for x11 forwarding.
The problem is likely Ubuntu not Lemmy or not even the Lemmy setup process.
You seem to not have a dbus session going which you should by default even with SSH. It sounds like it might be falling back to trying to get it from X11 and fails that too (obviously).
So, just Ubuntu being Ubuntu.
As others have already said, Lemmy does not require a display.
You might want to try the Ansible method of setting up a Lemmy instance. I personally found it much easier.
use wayland then
It doesn’t. No idea what you’ve done.
