Kontact freezes on wayland

[Ihor Antonov]

On Saturday, October 24, 2020 2:34:20 AM PST René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Friday October 23 2020 11:08:42 Ihor Antonov wrote:
> 
> >On wayland sesstion Kontact application freezes shortly after start (but
> >still can be closed if click the cross in the window title). This is 100%
> >reproducible problem.
> >
> >Does anybody know if this can be fixed somehow?
> 
> No proper fixes, but:
> 
> If X11 works fine for you the simplest solution is to accept that Wayland
> still has some way to go ;) and use good old X11.

Thanks but this is not a very helpful suggestion
 
> Does Kontact freeze too if you launch it in X11 mode (`-platform xcb`) under
> Wayland? Assuming you also have a Gnome DE installed, does Kontact also
> freeze if you launch it in Wayland mode under a ditto Gnome session?

on Gnome and Sway kontact works fine. In xwayland mode (-plarform xcb) it does 
work fine on Plasma Wayland too.

 
> In case you want to report a bug, the most straightforward and (a priori)
> helpful way would be to send an ABORT signal to Kontact after it has
> frozen:
> 
> %> killall -ABRT kontact
> 
> this should launch DrKonqi which should then allow you to file a ticket with
> a backtrace showing where the process is hanging.

There are no debug symbols to generate a "useful" report  :(


Thanks

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Ihor