> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2019 at 10:18 PM > From: "Christopher Gregory via blfs-support" > <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: "Christopher Gregory" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [blfs-support] KDE Plasma blank screen with cursor > > > > > Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2019 at 8:06 PM > > From: "Pierre Labastie via blfs-support" > > <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Cc: "Pierre Labastie" <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [blfs-support] KDE Plasma blank screen with cursor > > > > On 05/06/2019 08:19, Christopher Gregory via blfs-support wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > The title about sums up what happens when I attempt to get KDE to work. > > > There are a number of people with this issue, but to date I have not > > > found ANY that solve the issue. I have deleted the .cache .local etc > > > files and once sddm has finished starting up, I get dumped to the black > > > screen, > > > > > > It is not anything to do with sddm, as I can successfully boot into gnome > > > without any issues. > > > > > > I have even gone so far as to reinstall all of kde, apart from the > > > applications. > > > > > > Does anyone know of a way of getting this to work, or should I just have > > > not bothered, and do rm -rf /opt/sources/kf5 and be done with it? > > > > > > > I know it's not very helpful to write "works for me", but using startx with > > .xinitrc as in the book, I get a working KDE (well just tested the menus and > > Konsole). ISTR that we dropped sddm from the book because it was not playing > > well with DEs in /opt. You have Gnome in /usr, haven't you? > > > > Note that I am unable to open a plasma session, either from lxdm or from > > lightdm, with the configuration in the SVN book. But I do not get a blank > > screen, it just returns to the greeter. We might have to look at that... > > > > Pierre > > -- > > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support > > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > > > > Hello Pierre, > > Yes its the old problem that the display manager developers never get around > to solving. KDE is certainly installed in opt, and gnome is in /usr. I > managed to get sddm to completely install and run from within the > /opt/sources/kf5 directory, and it can indeed correctly start gnome. I did a > final test, and by adding the details to startx .initrc, was able to > successfully boot into a plasma desktop. I think that even gdm will not open > KDE successfully either. It was the same when I went through the process of > trying to install gnome into /opt and gdm would not start it no matter what > either I or Armin tried. Not even using gnomes own build tool did it ever > work. > > It seems that it may well be a case of no solution ever being found to have a > display manager and boot from /opt the desktop of choice. Its a minor > inconvenience, but at least I can now try the latest KDE. > > This is my first install of it, since they changed to frameworks. I wanted > the bugs to be worked out of it for a few years first. Had enough of alpha > software in the short period a number of years ago that I used windows. > > Regards, > > Christopher. > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page >
Hello, Well I did a little more research into this and all my trial and errors have finally paid off. I can now successfully boot into KDE plasma on xorg desktop which is installed in /opt/sources/kf5 from sddm. What you need to do is to create a .xsession in your users home directory with the following: #!/bin/bash exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session $KF5_PREFIX/bin/startkde you also need to chmod +x the .xsession file. I found the instructions for creating the .xsession file from: https://journalxtra.com/linux/how-to-make-a-basic-custom-xsession-script/ Perhaps sddm could now be returned to the book, as KDE has adopted this as their display manager of choice. Regards, Christopher. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
