On Saturday, 26 June 2021 08:19:24 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 26/06/21 00:51, Michael wrote:
> > Given your error, you appear to not have installed the requisite packages > > for the Plasma/KDE. It should have been installed as a dependency of > > plasma-workspace: > > Ah. Another piece of missing information ... I'll try that. I would have > thought that would have been pulled in seeing as I've got wayland and qt > use flags etc > > > $ qfile startplasma-wayland > > kde-plasma/plasma-workspace: /usr/bin/startplasma-wayland I am not clear on your particular use case(s). Plasma desktop is usually installed by setting the appropriate make.profile: $ eselect profile list Available profile symlink targets: [1] default/linux/amd64/17.1 (stable) [2] default/linux/amd64/17.1/selinux (stable) [3] default/linux/amd64/17.1/hardened (stable) [4] default/linux/amd64/17.1/hardened/selinux (stable) [5] default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop (stable) [6] default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/gnome (stable) [7] default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/gnome/systemd (stable) [8] default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/plasma (stable) * [9] default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/plasma/systemd (stable) [10] default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/systemd (stable) [11] default/linux/amd64/17.1/developer (stable) [12] default/linux/amd64/17.1/no-multilib (stable) [13] default/linux/amd64/17.1/no-multilib/hardened (stable) [14] default/linux/amd64/17.1/no-multilib/hardened/selinux (stable) [15] default/linux/amd64/17.1/systemd (stable) [16] default/linux/amd64/17.0 (dev) [17] default/linux/amd64/17.0/selinux (dev) [18] default/linux/amd64/17.0/hardened (dev) [19] default/linux/amd64/17.0/hardened/selinux (dev) [20] default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop (dev) [21] default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/gnome (dev) [22] default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/gnome/systemd (dev) [23] default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma (dev) [24] default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma/systemd (dev) [25] default/linux/amd64/17.0/developer (dev) [26] default/linux/amd64/17.0/no-multilib (dev) [27] default/linux/amd64/17.0/no-multilib/hardened (dev) [28] default/linux/amd64/17.0/no-multilib/hardened/selinux (dev) [29] default/linux/amd64/17.0/systemd (dev) [30] default/linux/amd64/17.0/x32 (dev) [31] default/linux/amd64/17.0/musl (exp) [32] default/linux/amd64/17.0/musl/hardened (exp) [33] default/linux/amd64/17.0/musl/hardened/selinux (exp) [34] default/linux/amd64/17.0/uclibc (exp) [35] default/linux/amd64/17.0/uclibc/hardened (exp) If you are looking for some minimalist desktop, a Plasma DE plus KDE applications with hundred of dependencies is probably not what you want. Also, I think Plasma DE and most DMs will pull in X11, because: a) they work both with X11 and wayland; b) many X11 applications can only run in X using XWayland. XWayland is an X Server running as a Wayland client to enable displaying native X11 client applications within a Wayland compositor environment. I haven't looked into it at any depth to see if you can strip a heavy DE like Plasma from all xserver dependencies - I'd guess you can't. > > If you have Gnome already installed then you can use the stanza for gnome- > > session instead. > > My use flags also contain -gtk -gnome ... gnome at least is on my list > of pet hates ... > > Cheers, > Wol OK, select the Plasma profile, then have a quick look at: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE You'll need to disable some USE flags of plasma-meta to avoid dragging in things you may not need/require, like 'display-manager', 'sddm', 'accessibility', etc. Eventually, after you update @world, add any kde-apps *-meta packages you need. However, if you intend to use wayland for the most minimalist of purposes, then you may want to consider something like Wayfire, instead of Plasma.
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