nody greeter setup questions and issues

[Hellzbellz123]

Im trying to setup nody-greeter and ive managed to get everything more or less setup but whenever i try to launch debug mode i get a javascript error and then a black screen when the greeter finally loads. the greeter renders correctly until i press okay on the notification.

[hellzbellz@bertiebottpc ~]$ nody-greeter --debug
A JavaScript error occurred in the main process
Uncaught Exception:
Error: Unable to determine socket to daemon
    at new Greeter (/opt/nody-greeter/resources/app.asar/js/bridge/bridge.js:44:24)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/opt/nody-greeter/resources/app.asar/js/bridge/bridge.js:601:1)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1078:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1108:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:935:32)
    at Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:776:14)
    at Function.f._load (electron/js2c/asar_bundle.js:5:12913)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:959:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:88:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/opt/nody-greeter/resources/app.asar/js/index.js:71:1)
2021-09-11 01:40:02 [ DEBUG ] undefined undefined: Restarting acpi_listen
2021-09-11 01:40:03 [ DEBUG ] browser.js 134: Initializing Browser Window
2021-09-11 01:40:03 [ DEBUG ] browser.js 155: Browser Window created
2021-09-11 01:40:03 [ DEBUG ] browser.js 126: Theme loaded
2021-09-11 01:40:03 [ DEBUG ] globals.js 63: Logger is ready
2021-09-11 01:40:03 [ DEBUG ] globals.js 36: Window is ready
2021-09-11 01:40:03 [ DEBUG ] undefined undefined: Restarting acpi_listen
2021-09-11 01:40:03 [ DEBUG ] undefined undefined: Restarting acpi_listen
2021-09-11 01:40:03 [ DEBUG ] screensaver.js 49: Screensaver set
2021-09-11 01:40:03 [ DEBUG ] undefined undefined: Restarting acpi_listen
2021-09-11 01:40:03 [ DEBUG ] undefined undefined: Restarting acpi_listen
2021-09-11 01:40:05 [ DEBUG ] browser.js 178: Nody Greeter started
2021-09-11 01:40:38 [ DEBUG ] screensaver.js 61: Screensaver reset

i tried with both prebuilt binary and building from source

just noticed the java error is different from terminal output,

[JezerM]

The error alerts are only about JavaScript problems (and some Electron ones). Maybe I should change that.

If you're trying this on a desktop environment, maybe you didn't add the X-LightDM-Allow-Greeter=true line inside your xsession. Check here.