From 466e4bcd741b7bca25650c48b1c690452e1a7426 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rope <fredrik@nordhammer.it>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:59:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] lock-before-sleep: export HOME, qs needs it to find the
 config

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0169F2pgebpibASvMLou1awP
---
 settings/hyprland.nix | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/settings/hyprland.nix b/settings/hyprland.nix
index 56ec659..13f7510 100644
--- a/settings/hyprland.nix
+++ b/settings/hyprland.nix
@@ -83,6 +83,10 @@ in
         # one in User=, so it pointed qs at /run/user/0.
         ExecStart = pkgs.writeShellScript "lock-before-sleep" ''
           export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/id -u)
+          # HOME too: system units don't set it for User=, and qs resolves
+          # the config (and thus the instance to talk to) via ~/.config —
+          # without it: "Could not find "default" config directory".
+          export HOME=/home/fred
           ${pkgs.quickshell}/bin/qs ipc call lock lock
           ${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/sleep 1
         '';