* Re: [gentoo-user] [FIXED] New install - Wayland and graphical login
@ 2021-06-29 9:44 99% ` Michael
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From: Michael @ 2021-06-29 9:44 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Tuesday, 29 June 2021 08:49:49 BST Wols Lists wrote:
> 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 ...
X11 will ask for twm if there is no other Window Manager available, or a
Display Environment not configured.
Have you sorted out your ~/.xinitrc, or have you added your startup command in
/etc/env.d/90xsession?
There used to be a time when you could drop in your startup command in /etc/
X11/Sessions/, but I think this is no longer used.
You should spend sometime reading:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xorg/Guide
> > 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 ...
In Plasma this would be kwin, which acts as a window manager and a compositor.
If you had installed Plasma in accordance with the URL I shared in previous
emails you shouldn't have this problem, because from what I recall kwin is
being drawn in as a dependency of Plasma.
> > 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".
Heh! Yes, you can't expect a DE to work if major packages are missing. ;-)
> 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.
It is not in the Handbook, which has the purpose of installing the Gentoo OS
itself, but it is in the Gentoo Documentation - look at the dropdown menu
'Documentation' of the Handbook web pages:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Category:Desktop
In your case, as I posted previously, you need:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE
But, from the errors you've been getting with startx it seems you haven't read
relevant Xorg documentation either.
> Now to get something like sddm working :-)
For SDDM you better read this first:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SDDM
> (Plus updating my SUSE version to 15.3, re-organising my hardware, blah
> blah blah :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
Glad you got your desktop going! :-)
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