Re: [gentoo-user] [FIXED] New install - Wayland and graphical login

[Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>]

On 28/06/21 20:23, antlists wrote:
> On 26/06/2021 13:00, Michael wrote:
>> On Saturday, 26 June 2021 11:50:01 BST antlists wrote:
>>
>>> I just want a working systemd/wayland desktop system. So basically, a
>>> full-weight normal desktop.
>> [snip ...]
>>
>>> I've got this one selected, /desktop/plasma/systemd
>>
>> Select default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/plasma/systemd (stable).
>>
>> Then update @world.  You should be good to go as long as video drivers
>> and
>> firmware are in place, but if X11 is not working this could be an area
>> meriting further investigation.
>>
> Okay, ...
> 
> One new kernel later (along with some grub debugging :-), world updated,
> ...
> 
> X11 still isn't working - first it complained it couldn't find twm, so I
> emerged that, now startx just runs and exits, and the log doesn't seem
> to show anything wrong ...
> 
> Wayland is interesting ... if I try to startplasma-wayland, it comes up
> with the starting plasma stuff, and there's a mouse cursor, but nothing
> except a black screen and the cursor. When I kill it from a root tty,
> there's an error
> 
> Failed to create wl_display (No such file or directory)
> 
> which a google tells me I haven't got a compositor ...
> 
> I also get further errors, but they're probably a consequence -
> 
> Could not load the Qt platform plugin "Wayland" in "" even though it was
> found
> 
> and the same error for xcb.
> 
So simple. I was missing "emerge plasma-meta".

This is where it would be nice to have something like the handbook, or a
chapter in the handbook, on bringing up a working graphical environment.
Now to get something like sddm working :-)

(Plus updating my SUSE version to 15.3, re-organising my hardware, blah
blah blah :-)

Cheers,
Wol