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Test wayland
With the release of plasma 5.20.0, Wayland support is at the fore. This issue exists to track progress on dropping Xorg dependencies. Currently it should be perfectly possible to start a Wayland session. Any issues relating to better Wayland support in this repository will be documented here.
The first issue I have encountered: I cannot start a Wayland session.
@sdsddsd1, tips or tricks?
I dont have a kde-system anymore, but I am glad to give my "expertise" :D
What are prerequisites you have already done? Like do you start with elogind, from tty or sddm? Without elogind the xdg_runntime_dir needs to be set. Things you probably know with your wl experience but just to make sure.
Going after KDE docs https://community.kde.org/KWin/Wayland#Start_a_Plasma_session_on_Wayland
dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland
Just a TTY for now :)
I thought I had done all of these things but I will retest.
Presumably forking xorg-server to add xwayland support will be necessary for now, but we'll see!
I am just snooping around (: What do you try do start, kwin or kwinft? Arch wiki references to the same docs I found above https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE#From_the_console . Arch also provides a "kde wayland" package. May be good to look over this. https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/plasma-wayland-session/
Their package only installs a .desktop file, which might be relevant.
The error I'm actually getting that seems to stop this is "no libinput :(". Which is a weird error to get.
I noticed that kwayland and plasma-wayland is missing as a package in the plasma repo.
kwayland is in frameworks and plasma-wayland is not a package (though *-session and *-protocols are, and we have discussed the former and the latter is in this repo).
As it stands, a pseudo list of currently required xorg libs:
kscreenlocker -> qt5-x11extras, xcb-util-keysyms
kwindowsystem -> qt5-x11extras
libkscreen -> qt5-x11extras
plasma-integration -> qt5-x11extras
plasma-desktop -> xorg-server
kwin -> libX11
kwayland -> EGL. This means mesa requires x11 platform support
There are a few more small deps sprinked in (like xcb-util-* stuff), but ultimately it all comes down to when kwayland stops being... Dumb? Like, that's the dumbest framework ever. It's literally named kWAYLAND for crying out loud.
kwin has a sneaky line in its build output:
xwayland required to launch kwin_wayland
This can't be it, right?
Will test, of course 🙃
Update: have tested all changes thus far. No longer have the aforementioned issue about libinput. Which is good. New issue: session appears to launch, but it is merely a black screen. What fun.
Thats some progress.🍹
Looking for 'kwin blackscreen' brings up mostly issues related to nvidia. And also issues 4 years old :
💻 🧑🚒