From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2B5C5139335 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2021 07:08:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8C377E086C; Tue, 29 Jun 2021 07:08:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk (smtp.hosts.co.uk [85.233.160.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1B85FE0802 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2021 07:08:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from host86-157-72-169.range86-157.btcentralplus.com ([86.157.72.169] helo=[192.168.1.64]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1ly7r4-0002ta-3z for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2021 08:08:22 +0100 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [FIXED] New install - Wayland and graphical login To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <60D0BDF3.9000302@youngman.org.uk> <3117147.aeNJFYEL58@lenovo.localdomain> <52d11b84-d07c-c1e8-e9db-58461c2fd55a@youngman.org.uk> <11778834.O9o76ZdvQC@dell_xps> From: Wols Lists Message-ID: <60DAD09D.8030509@youngman.org.uk> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2021 08:49:49 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3a8d54a2-902f-46cb-b603-d54af9e883cb X-Archives-Hash: 892dccc22f449fb19aacd480f719661b 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