KDE 6 + Wayland : it works or not ?

[Tobias C. Berner]

Moin omin

Add it as a poudriere ports tree and build the package..., or cd into it
and run make...

As to your error with my script, well, I assume you don't have a /memory -
tmpfs :)
 always read and adapt scripts to your situation, don't blindly run them...

mfg Tobias

On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 at 09:40, Mario Marietto <marietto2008 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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