bug#36590: sway fails to launch after installing

so after I set XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/tmp i get the following errors [source/backend/session/logind.c:511] User has no session [source/backend/session/logind.c:599] Couldn't find an active session or a greeter session [source/backend/session/direct-ipc.c:96] Failed to load session backend [source/ba

bug#36590: sway fails to launch after installing

After installing sway it fails to launch from the command line. The resulting error is "XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set in the environment. Aborting."