From e09b145f3a261d14b8471425da1daeb921faa72c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felitendo <felitendoyt@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 13:38:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix: install the user units where systemd will find them

A build with a prefix of its own put them in $(PREFIX)/lib/systemd/user, which
is right for /usr/local and wrong for the one prefix an install without root
can use: systemd searches $XDG_DATA_HOME/systemd/user and never
~/.local/lib/systemd/user. An install into ~/.local came out with a working
program whose watcher could not be enabled at all.

They go under share now, which both a system prefix and a home one are
searched for. Nothing changes for the packages - the deb and the rpm pass
USERUNITDIR in themselves.

That prefix is what an atomic distribution leaves a user, so the readme says
how to install on Bazzite: layer the rpm and reboot, or put the whole thing in
$HOME, which is where everything it writes ends up anyway.
---
 Makefile  | 12 ++++++++----
 README.md | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 4f43e8e..b53e887 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -23,13 +23,17 @@ MANDIR       ?= $(DATADIR)/man
 # distribution that still keeps /lib separate from /usr/lib says so here - and
 # only guessed at when there is no systemd installed to ask.
 #
-# A build with a prefix of its own keeps the units under that prefix instead.
-# systemd searches $(PREFIX)/lib/systemd/user as well, and a file outside the
-# prefix it was asked for is not this build's to place.
+# A build with a prefix of its own keeps the units under that prefix instead,
+# and under share rather than lib. systemd searches both for a system prefix,
+# but only share for a home one: $XDG_DATA_HOME/systemd/user is a search path
+# and ~/.local/lib/systemd/user is not, so an install into ~/.local that put
+# the units in lib would leave the watcher impossible to enable. That prefix is
+# the one an atomic distribution leaves a user - there is no writing to /usr on
+# Bazzite or Silverblue without layering a package and rebooting.
 ifeq ($(PREFIX),/usr)
 USERUNITDIR  ?= $(shell pkg-config --variable=systemduserunitdir systemd 2>/dev/null || echo /usr/lib/systemd/user)
 else
-USERUNITDIR  ?= $(PREFIX)/lib/systemd/user
+USERUNITDIR  ?= $(DATADIR)/systemd/user
 endif
 
 LINGUAS      := de
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2bfccf1..502adf2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -67,6 +67,24 @@ sudo curl -fsSL -o /etc/yum.repos.d/middleclick-autoscroll.repo \
 sudo dnf install middleclick-autoscroll
 ```
 
+**Bazzite and friends (for the ones who reboot to install things)**
+
+```bash
+sudo curl -fsSL -o /etc/yum.repos.d/middleclick-autoscroll.repo \
+  https://felitendo.github.io/middleclick-autoscroll/middleclick-autoscroll.repo
+sudo rpm-ostree install middleclick-autoscroll
+systemctl reboot
+```
+
+Don't want to layer a shell script into your image? Everything this thing does
+happens in `$HOME` anyway, so it can just live there too - no root, no reboot
+(needs `make`, otherwise grab it in a distrobox):
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/Felitendo/middleclick-autoscroll
+cd middleclick-autoscroll && make install PREFIX=~/.local
+```
+
 **Debian (for the elderly)**
 
 ```bash