Packaging for Solus: Plasma Desktop refuses to show up

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Fri May 5 08:03:50 UTC 2017


Hi,
A bugzilla report would probably be better for tracking the status of the issue.
can you run "plasmashell" when in another desktop? what does the
console output tells?

On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 1:53 AM, Federico Damián Schonborn
<federicodamiansch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello KDE community!
>
> I'm having a problem to make Plasma Desktop fully run on Solus
> (https://solus-project.com). While I'm running the 'plasmashell' executable
> it does not give me any error, but also the desktop does not show up. I can
> enter to the Plasma session using LightDM, but after the splash animation I
> got a blank desktop with where only KRunner and KWin are working as
> expected.
>
> All details I can give:
>
> - I can run 'plasmawindowed' as a standalone program and as part of the
> KDEConnect Monitor in the MATE Desktop, but not 'plasmashell' (which also
> doesn't give me any output).
>
> - The Solus package sources are stored in their Git instance
> (https://git.solus-project.com).
>
> - My repository containing the Plasma Desktop package and the missing
> Framework needed to run it is stored in a GitHub repo
> (https://github.com/feddasch/top-secret).
>
> - The abi_* files in both sources are useful if you want to check for the
> libraries that the package builder loads as dependencies.
>
> - I have installed all the frameworks and Plasma components listed in both
> repositories.
>
>


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