* Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login
@ 2021-06-25 7:50 99% ` antlists
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From: antlists @ 2021-06-25 7:50 UTC (permalink / raw
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On 23/06/2021 10:11, jdm wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 16:17:41 +0100
> Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com> wrote:
>
>> On Monday, 21 June 2021 17:27:31 BST Wols Lists wrote:
>>> What happens when you get to the end of the handbook?
>>>
>>> I want to get a working Wayland setup with a (multi-user) graphical
>>> login. When I set my old system up ($DEITY knows how long ago) I
>>> seem to remember a page on setting up X, and all sorts of stuff.
>>>
>>> Now, you seem to get dumped at working tty1 prompt, and then the
>>> *helpful* documentation JUST STOPS. It doesn't even point you at
>>> anything! (Yes it points you at the portage page about how to
>>> maintain your system, but that isn't much use if you can't DO
>>> anything with the system...)
>>>
>>> I've found the page on Wayland, but it just says "set this use flag
>>> and install two packages".
>>>
>>> Where's the documentation that tells me what I need, and how to set
>>> it up, please ...
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Wol
>>
>> Have you tried using a Display Manager? Some of my systems won't
>> work with Wayland, but I haven't spent time to find out why all I get
>> with them is a black screen.
>>
>> Anyway, from a VT you'd run something like:
>>
>> XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland
>>
>> or
>>
>> XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session gnome-session
>
> There is a wayland greeter which uses greetd and gtkgreet which may
> be worth looking at and there is a gentoo wiki which goes a long with
> it. It works with wayfire which is a nice wayland window manager and is
> very reliable.
>
> Also look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Wayland_Desktop_Landscape
>
Thanks, but I'm none the wiser ... the thing is, for X the instructions
are simple - "install xorg, run startx".
Okay, I've done that and got errors I need to solve, but with Wayland I
just don't have a clue. I don't know what I need, I don't know how to
start it, all I've got is a pile of bits in a box, and I don't know what
to do with them.
Everything I find is like a meccano set - there's loads of bits and
pieces, but no instructions, and I don't have a clue how they fit
together. Where's the recipe that says "do this this and this and you
should have a gui"?
Cheers,
Wol
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