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On 23/06/2021 10:11, jdm wrote: |
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> On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 16:17:41 +0100 |
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> Michael <confabulate@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> |
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>> On Monday, 21 June 2021 17:27:31 BST Wols Lists wrote: |
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>>> What happens when you get to the end of the handbook? |
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>>> I want to get a working Wayland setup with a (multi-user) graphical |
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>>> login. When I set my old system up ($DEITY knows how long ago) I |
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>>> seem to remember a page on setting up X, and all sorts of stuff. |
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>>> |
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>>> Now, you seem to get dumped at working tty1 prompt, and then the |
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>>> *helpful* documentation JUST STOPS. It doesn't even point you at |
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>>> anything! (Yes it points you at the portage page about how to |
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>>> maintain your system, but that isn't much use if you can't DO |
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>>> anything with the system...) |
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>>> |
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>>> I've found the page on Wayland, but it just says "set this use flag |
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>>> and install two packages". |
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>>> |
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>>> Where's the documentation that tells me what I need, and how to set |
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>>> it up, please ... |
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>>> |
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>>> Cheers, |
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>>> Wol |
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>> |
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>> Have you tried using a Display Manager? Some of my systems won't |
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>> work with Wayland, but I haven't spent time to find out why all I get |
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>> with them is a black screen. |
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>> Anyway, from a VT you'd run something like: |
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>> XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland |
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>> or |
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>> |
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>> XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session gnome-session |
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> There is a wayland greeter which uses greetd and gtkgreet which may |
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> be worth looking at and there is a gentoo wiki which goes a long with |
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> it. It works with wayfire which is a nice wayland window manager and is |
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> very reliable. |
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> |
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> Also look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Wayland_Desktop_Landscape |
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Thanks, but I'm none the wiser ... the thing is, for X the instructions |
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are simple - "install xorg, run startx". |
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Okay, I've done that and got errors I need to solve, but with Wayland I |
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just don't have a clue. I don't know what I need, I don't know how to |
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start it, all I've got is a pile of bits in a box, and I don't know what |
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to do with them. |
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Everything I find is like a meccano set - there's loads of bits and |
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pieces, but no instructions, and I don't have a clue how they fit |
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together. Where's the recipe that says "do this this and this and you |
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should have a gui"? |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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