On 26/06/2021 10:28, Michael wrote:
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:
I just want a working systemd/wayland desktop system. So basically, a
full-weight normal desktop.
$ 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)
I've got this one selected, /desktop/plasma/systemd
[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.
Not after a minimalist system, and if it pulls in X that's fine.
(Actually, I've installed X, and at the moment it blows up on me, but if
I can get Wayland working, I don't see the point in debugging it until I
need to ...)
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.
I'll need something like sddm, because I'll have multiple users logged
in simultaneously. I was trying to use qtgreet as per the "Wayland
Landscape" page, but the package doesn't seem to exist ... I'd rather
avoid gnome/gdm and gtkgreet, lightdm and sddm look like X11 (and I said
I didn't want to debug it :-), and tuigreet looks like it might not
support multi-user/multi-head.
Still, if I can get plasma running, I can work from there ...
Cheers,
Wol
