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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 seem to |
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> remember a page on setting up X, and all sorts of stuff. |
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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 maintain |
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> your system, but that isn't much use if you can't DO anything with the |
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> system...) |
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> I've found the page on Wayland, but it just says "set this use flag and |
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> install two packages". |
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> Where's the documentation that tells me what I need, and how to set it |
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> up, please ... |
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> Cheers, |
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> Wol |
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Have you tried using a Display Manager? Some of my systems won't work with |
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Wayland, but I haven't spent time to find out why all I get with them is a |
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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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XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session gnome-session |