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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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> 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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> 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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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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Now to get something like sddm working :-) |
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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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