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Voltago
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 Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 5:20 pm Post subject: KDE Plasma 5.4 as a wayland session |
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Hi all!
Since Plasma 5.4, plasma-workspace[+wayland] installs the script /usr/bin/startplasmacompositor to start a kwin wayland session. If called from within X11, it opens a nested window you can potter around in for a bit by calling something like
| Code: | | kate -platform wayland |
Info and tutorials are a bit scarce right now, so has anybody here succeeded in starting a full wayland+plasma session from a VT, or maybe via sddm? Is that even possible at this point? If so, are you using systemd or not? Did you have to fix up the script to properly start a DBUS session first? |
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Qlawy
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| Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2015 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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Same question here.
I tried to start it and it fails with:
| Code: | qtpaths: could not exec '/usr/lib64/qt4/bin/qtpaths': No such file or directory
qtpaths: could not exec '/usr/lib64/qt4/bin/qtpaths': No such file or directory
startplasmacompositor: Starting up...
startplasmacompositor: Could not start D-Bus. Can you call qdbus? |
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Petros
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| Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2015 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Qlawy wrote: | Same question here.
I tried to start it and it fails with:
| Code: | qtpaths: could not exec '/usr/lib64/qt4/bin/qtpaths': No such file or directory
qtpaths: could not exec '/usr/lib64/qt4/bin/qtpaths': No such file or directory
startplasmacompositor: Starting up...
startplasmacompositor: Could not start D-Bus. Can you call qdbus? |
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I think your dev-qt/qtpath is outdated. I am using 5.5.1 at the moment.
Also try to update dev-qt/qdbus and run | Code: | | export $(dbus-launch) |
prion to startplasmacompositor.
So far neither do I can start wayland. But I only managed to workaround these 2 problems. |
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kensington
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Location: Australia
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| Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2015 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Qlawy wrote: | Same question here.
I tried to start it and it fails with:
| Code: | qtpaths: could not exec '/usr/lib64/qt4/bin/qtpaths': No such file or directory
qtpaths: could not exec '/usr/lib64/qt4/bin/qtpaths': No such file or directory
startplasmacompositor: Starting up...
startplasmacompositor: Could not start D-Bus. Can you call qdbus? |
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The script calls qtpaths from $PATH, which in Gentoo is a symlink to qtchooser, which defaults to Qt4. You could workaroudn the issue by editing startplasmacompositor to call /usr/lib64/qt5/bin/qtpaths directly (this fix will be included with Plasma 5.4.3). |
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