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On Tuesday, 29 June 2021 08:49:49 BST Wols Lists wrote: |
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> On 28/06/21 20:23, antlists wrote: |
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> > On 26/06/2021 13:00, Michael wrote: |
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> >> On Saturday, 26 June 2021 11:50:01 BST antlists wrote: |
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> >>> I just want a working systemd/wayland desktop system. So basically, a |
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> >>> full-weight normal desktop. |
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> >> [snip ...] |
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> >>> I've got this one selected, /desktop/plasma/systemd |
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> >> Select default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/plasma/systemd (stable). |
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> >> Then update @world. You should be good to go as long as video drivers |
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> >> and |
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> >> firmware are in place, but if X11 is not working this could be an area |
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> >> meriting further investigation. |
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> > Okay, ... |
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> > One new kernel later (along with some grub debugging :-), world updated, |
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> > ... |
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> > X11 still isn't working - first it complained it couldn't find twm, so I |
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> > emerged that, now startx just runs and exits, and the log doesn't seem |
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> > to show anything wrong ... |
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X11 will ask for twm if there is no other Window Manager available, or a |
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Display Environment not configured. |
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Have you sorted out your ~/.xinitrc, or have you added your startup command in |
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/etc/env.d/90xsession? |
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There used to be a time when you could drop in your startup command in /etc/ |
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X11/Sessions/, but I think this is no longer used. |
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You should spend sometime reading: |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xorg/Guide |
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> > Wayland is interesting ... if I try to startplasma-wayland, it comes up |
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> > with the starting plasma stuff, and there's a mouse cursor, but nothing |
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> > except a black screen and the cursor. When I kill it from a root tty, |
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> > there's an error |
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> > Failed to create wl_display (No such file or directory) |
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> > which a google tells me I haven't got a compositor ... |
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In Plasma this would be kwin, which acts as a window manager and a compositor. |
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If you had installed Plasma in accordance with the URL I shared in previous |
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emails you shouldn't have this problem, because from what I recall kwin is |
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being drawn in as a dependency of Plasma. |
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> > I also get further errors, but they're probably a consequence - |
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> > Could not load the Qt platform plugin "Wayland" in "" even though it was |
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> > found |
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> > and the same error for xcb. |
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> So simple. I was missing "emerge plasma-meta". |
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Heh! Yes, you can't expect a DE to work if major packages are missing. ;-) |
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> This is where it would be nice to have something like the handbook, or a |
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> chapter in the handbook, on bringing up a working graphical environment. |
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It is not in the Handbook, which has the purpose of installing the Gentoo OS |
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itself, but it is in the Gentoo Documentation - look at the dropdown menu |
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'Documentation' of the Handbook web pages: |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Category:Desktop |
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In your case, as I posted previously, you need: |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE |
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But, from the errors you've been getting with startx it seems you haven't read |
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relevant Xorg documentation either. |
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> Now to get something like sddm working :-) |
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For SDDM you better read this first: |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SDDM |
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> (Plus updating my SUSE version to 15.3, re-organising my hardware, blah |
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> blah blah :-) |
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> Cheers, |
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> Wol |
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Glad you got your desktop going! :-) |
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