[arch-general] plasma 5.5 and wayland

[Stefano Avallone]

On Wednesday, December 16, 2015 08:37:02 PM Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> On मंगळवार 15 डिसें 2015 9:11:15 AM Bhushan Shah wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Shridhar Daithankar
> > 
> > > Any suggestions? What package I am missing?
> > > 
> > > Following is the output generated by startplasmacompositor.
> > 
> > Currently there is bug, due to which you can not start plasma session
> > on wayland. Please try installing kinit-nooom and see if it fixes
> > problem?
> 
> Well, with plasma 5.5.1, I am able to launch the session. There are several
> small defects as expected, but I have a full working desktop now.
> 
> Now convincing sddm to show that entry in list of sessions is another
> matter. Despite of putting following in /usr/share/wayland-sessions, it
> does not show it. But it understands the entry for Weston somehow.

Did you install plasma-wayland-session?

It is the new split package shipping plasmawayland.desktop

Stefano

> ----------
> [shridhar at arjun ~]$ cat /usr/share/wayland-sessions/plasma-wayland.desktop
> [Desktop Entry]
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Type=Application
> Exec=dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/startplasmacompositor
> TryExec=dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/startplasmacompositor
> DesktopNames=KDE
> Name=Plasma-wayland
> Comment=Plasma by KDE wayland
> 
> ----------
> 
> Thanks.