KDE 6 + Wayland : it works or not ?

[Mario Marietto]

Hello.

I've downloaded the ports tree. What should I do now ? How can I install
kde 6 starting from the ports tree that you gave to me ?

On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 8:38 PM Tobias C. Berner <tcberner at gmail.com> wrote:

> Moin moin
>
> No I'm not contradicting myself, it was probably just not clearly
> stated... :) -- as I said, they conflict, as they install the same
> desktop in different versions...
> So, don't install plasma5 if you want to use plasma6 -- the only port that
> might be needed of plasma5-plasma-integration.
> If you want to try to use plasma6 and try to get wayland up, make sure to
> remove plasma5* and just install the plasma6-plasma
> package.
>
> I really recommend to use this tree instead of main:
> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports-kde/tree/kde-it_goes_to_6
>
>
> You can then create a shell-script ala
>
> ###
> #!/bin/sh
> export QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1
> # export QT_WAYLAND_SHELL_INTEGRATION=xdg-shell
> export WAYLAND_DEBUG=1
> # export XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland
>
> ck-launch-session dbus-run-session truss
> /usr/local/bin/startplasma-wayland >& /memory/startplasma.log
> ####
>
> to try to run plasma... you likely get an output like
>
> ###
>
> [...]
> qt.core.library: "/usr/local/lib/qt6/plugins/platforms/libqwayland-generic.so" loaded library
> Failed to create wl_display (No such file or directory)
> qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in "" even though it was found.
> qt.core.library: "/usr/local/lib/qt6/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so" loaded library
> qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display :0
> qt.qpa.plugin: From 6.5.0, xcb-cursor0 or libxcb-cursor0 is needed to load the Qt xcb platform plugin.
> [...]
>
> ###
> before it fails :/
>
> mfg Tobias
>
> On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 at 14:05, Mario Marietto <marietto2008 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> ---> You should not install any plasma5 components that are not pulled in
>> by plasma6 -- they conflict, as they are both the KDE Desktop... and
>> therefore share files and services :) -- so stick to one version.
>>
>> We can't stick to one version if plasma5 and plasma6 components conflict.
>> You are contradicting yourself.
>>
>> If there are no conflicts, the output by :
>>
>> diff -u -p -N /usr/ports/x11-wm/plasma5-kwin/pkg-plist
>> /usr/ports/x11-wm/plasma6-kwin/pkg-plist
>>
>> should not have lines started with a single space. Single space of
>> unified diffs on top of lines means it's common with 2 files compared.
>>
>> There are many common lines such as:
>>
>> @@ -1,49 +1,275 @@ bin/kwin_x11
>> bin/kwin_wayland
>> bin/kwin_wayland_wrapper
>> bin/kwin_x11
>> -include/kwin_export.h
>> -include/kwinanimationeffect.h
>>
>> The "-" at the top of lines means it appears on the first file but not on
>> the second.
>>
>> Edit: Quote functionality does not do its work as intended. [image: :(]There
>> should be a single space before bin/kwin_wayland,
>> bin/kwin_wayland_wrapper and bin/kwin_x11 in the quoted example above.
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 11:10 PM Mario Marietto <marietto2008 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Can you write a small tutorial for us ? I've been working on this for
>>> months.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 10:56 PM Tobias C. Berner <tcberner at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Moin moin
>>>>
>>>> You should not install any plasma5 components that are not pulled in
>>>> by plasma6 -- they conflict, as they are both the KDE Desktop... and
>>>> therefore share files and services :) -- so stick to one version.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have not yet got the plasma6-wayland session working on my end
>>>> though -- I can start the plasma-desktop inside a running wayland
>>>> compositor, but I cannot bring up kwin as compositor.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> mfg Tobias
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, 20 Jul 2024 at 22:36, Mario Marietto <marietto2008 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > Hello.
>>>> >
>>>> > Here at forums.freebsd.org we are trying to install KDE 6 with
>>>> Wayland,but we are failing. The thread is here :
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/trying-to-run-kde-6-plasma-with-wayland.93951/
>>>> >
>>>> > Do you have some kind of suggestion to give to us ?
>>>> > The main problem seems to be that there is a conflict between
>>>> plasma5-kwin and plasma6-kwin ; some kde5 and kde6 packages are mixed and
>>>> this creates some issues.
>>>> > What should we do ?
>>>> >
>>>> > thanks.
>>>> >
>>>> > --
>>>> > Mario.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Mario.
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Mario.
>>
>

-- 
Mario.
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