How to set up?

[EvyBongers]

Hi,

I recently installed localtime through AUR, but I just can't get it to work. I've looked at both the comments on the AUR website and the github issues.
When starting the systemd service, it fails after a couple of seconds, same as mentioned in #6:

Failed to start GeoClue2 Client: 'localtimed' disallowed, no agent for UID xxx

According to the documentation at https://stebalien.com/projects/localtime/, the required user should be created automatically by systemd-sysusers.service, but neither the AUR package, nor the repository Makefile install the required systemd config $PREFIX/lib/sysusers.d/localtime.conf as mentioned here. Because of that, I ran make install-user, which did create a system user and group, changing the UID reported in the systemd logs. Didn't solve the issue though.
Then I tried updating the geoclue config, based on what else I read in #6, but nothing I tried got it to work.

Question 1: is (manually) creating the system user still required? Wondering, since the systemd unit file says to dynamically create a user:

localtime/localtime.service.in

Lines 5 to 7 in 541590b

	[Service]
	User=USER
	DynamicUser=true

Question 2: what manual configuration of geoclue is required for it to work? Is it at all possible to use localtime with geoclue these days?

[Stebalien]

I've pushed a patch that will auto start the demo agent if it isn't running. Unfortunately, upstream is Gnome which tends to be pretty hostile to anyone that's not "gnome".