Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-07-03 Thread antlists
On 03/07/2021 12:00, Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi Wol, If I am you, I would install "mate" desktop, which is basicly gnome2 and gnome transition to wayland is as much as I know completed. XFCE is a bit behind, that takes a time ... My make.conf contains "-gtk -gnome". I have ABSOLUTELY NO plans

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-07-03 Thread Tamer Higazi
Hi Wol, If I am you, I would install "mate" desktop, which is basicly gnome2 and gnome transition to wayland is as much as I know completed. XFCE is a bit behind, that takes a time ... https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/MATE What I figured out, that this is not the very only thing to have wayland

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-06-28 Thread antlists
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

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-06-27 Thread antlists
On 27/06/2021 16:14, Jack wrote: I noticed that one post mentioned /dev/card1 and the other talked about /dev/dri/card0.  If the former was not a typo omitting /dri/ then that might be something to check out. The former was a what I remembered ... quite possibly wrong ... :-) Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-06-27 Thread Jack
I noticed that one post mentioned /dev/card1 and the other talked about /dev/dri/card0.  If the former was not a typo omitting /dri/ then that might be something to check out.

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-06-27 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 27 June 2021 12:52:39 BST antlists wrote: > On 27/06/2021 11:36, Michael wrote: > > You're meant to be running X11 as a non-root user. > > And if the only user on the system is root, which I'm logged in as :-) Then create a plain non-root user account and login as such. > >> As I

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-06-27 Thread antlists
On 27/06/2021 11:36, Michael wrote: On Sunday, 27 June 2021 10:05:59 BST Wols Lists wrote: On 21/06/21 16:17, Michael wrote: 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.

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-06-27 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 27 June 2021 10:05:59 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 21/06/21 16:17, Michael wrote: > > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-06-27 Thread Wols Lists
On 21/06/21 16:17, Michael wrote: > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-06-26 Thread Michael
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

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-06-26 Thread antlists
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:

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-06-26 Thread Michael
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

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-06-25 Thread Wols Lists
On 26/06/21 00:51, Michael wrote: > On Friday, 25 June 2021 20:15:22 BST antlists wrote: >> On 25/06/2021 09:46, Michael wrote: >>> On Friday, 25 June 2021 08:50:32 BST antlists wrote: On 23/06/2021 10:11, jdm wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 16:17:41 +0100 > > Michael wrote: >>

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-06-25 Thread Michael
On Friday, 25 June 2021 20:15:22 BST antlists wrote: > On 25/06/2021 09:46, Michael wrote: > > On Friday, 25 June 2021 08:50:32 BST antlists wrote: > >> On 23/06/2021 10:11, jdm wrote: > >>> On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 16:17:41 +0100 > >>> > >>> Michael wrote: > On Monday, 21 June 2021 17:27:31 BST

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-06-25 Thread antlists
On 25/06/2021 09:46, Michael wrote: On Friday, 25 June 2021 08:50:32 BST antlists wrote: On 23/06/2021 10:11, jdm wrote: On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 16:17:41 +0100 Michael 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

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-06-25 Thread Michael
On Friday, 25 June 2021 08:50:32 BST antlists wrote: > On 23/06/2021 10:11, jdm wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 16:17:41 +0100 > > > > Michael 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

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-06-25 Thread antlists
On 23/06/2021 10:11, jdm wrote: On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 16:17:41 +0100 Michael 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

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-06-23 Thread jdm
On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 16:17:41 +0100 Michael 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

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-06-21 Thread Michael
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

[gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-06-21 Thread Wols Lists
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