"(Connection refused)" error

[Valmar33]

Hey giucam,

I've installed the most recent wayland-git, wayland-protocols-git and weston-git from AUR, and then installed orbital-git, however, whenever I run orbital-launch, it just gives me "(Connection refused)" as a most unhelpful error.

Any advice on how to overcome this? Is it a permission error, perhaps, where my user isn't the right group or something?

Cheers, Valmar

[giucam]

orbital-launch is not working at the moment, try just running "orbital".

[Valmar33]

I've tried that from vt, also. It just gives me a broken desktop where the only things being displayed are the panel and pager applet. Randomly, I can launch the terminal sometimes. Sometimes, it just fully freezes.

I've tried starting it on kwin_wayland, and while it displays correctly, I cannot interact inside the window. Maybe I should try with weston, also.

[giucam]

The broken desktop is because of a missing icon theme. Use qt5ct to set an icon theme as explained in the readme. However the freezes should not happen... does that happen also when started inside X?

[Valmar33]

Running it X11, or using the X11 backend, works fine, without any problems.

I can also run Weston with the X11 backend, and then run Orbital within the nested compositor with the Wayland backend, and it works very smoothly.