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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