Might be interesting to try logging in as a new user to see if some older kde settings are messing things up.
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 6:24 AM Ondrej Mosnacek <omosn...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 5:30 PM Ben Cotton <bcot...@redhat.com> wrote: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/WaylandByDefaultForPlasma > > > > == Summary == > > Change the default session selection in SDDM to prefer the > > Wayland-based KDE Plasma Desktop session over the X11-based one. > > > > == Owner == > > * Name: [[User:Ngompa|Neal Gompa]], [[User:Rdieter|Rex Dieter]], > > [[User:Jgrulich|Jan Grulich]] > > * Email: ngomp...@gmail.com, rdie...@gmail.com, jgrul...@redhat.com > > * Product: KDE Spin > > * Responsible WG: KDE SIG > > > > > > == Detailed Description == > > > > With KDE Plasma 5.20, the KDE Plasma desktop environment has reached a > > point where nearly all commonly used features in the desktop and all > > major applications function in the Plasma Wayland environment on all > > major GPUs (including NVIDIA with the proprietary driver). Starting > > with Plasma 5.20 in Fedora 34, we will change the default > > configuration for Wayland and X11 Plasma sessions so that Wayland is > > preferred and used by default, while permitting the X11 session to be > > selected as the alternative desktop environment option. > > > > == Feedback == > > > > ==== Is Wayland ready? ==== > > Wayland has been used by default for Fedora Workstation (which uses > > GNOME) since Fedora 25. And while it was somewhat immature initially, > > today it is a very rock-solid experience on virtually everything > > Fedora Workstation runs on. The change in Fedora 25 kickstarted the > > drive to get everything working on Wayland, and the Workstation team > > succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Firefox has been Wayland-native > > by default since Fedora 31 as well. > > > > On the KDE side, serious work into supporting Wayland started shortly > > after GNOME switched to Wayland by default. Unlike GNOME, KDE has a > > much broader stack in its toolkit, and it has taken longer to get to a > > usable state. With the Plasma 5.20 release, the Wayland protocol for > > screencasting as well as middle-click paste finally are supported, > > completing the required feature set for switching to Wayland by > > default. > > So yesterday I tried to log in to the KDE Plasma + Wayland session on > my laptop (F32) and the experience was unfortunately quite horrible... > > 1. When I logged out of the X session, switched to Wayland on the > login screen, and logged in, I only got a black screen. After I > rebooted, I managed to login to the Wayland session (I have automatic > login after boot enabled), but... > 2. The desktop was all squeezed into a small 1024x786 rectangle in the > upper left corner of the screen (my screen is 1920x1080). So I opened > system settings to change the resolution, but... > 3. The screen settings were showing "manufacturer_TODO" and > "model_TODO" as the name of the screen and the only resolution offered > was 1024x786. > 4. The window layout of my KDE session was not preserved (I think even > the distribution of windows to activities was lost). But I probably > shouldn't expect this to work... > 5. Logging out of the Wayland session gave me just a black screen with > blinking cursor, no login screen. > > Reading the other posts in this thread it seems I'm the only one > experiencing such serious breakage (maybe except 4., which is > understandable), so I'm wondering if I did something wrong... I simply > installed plasma-workspace-wayland, logged out, and then logged in > selecting "Plasma (Wayland) (Wayland)" from the session dropdown. > > -- > Ondrej Mosnacek > Software Engineer, Platform Security - SELinux kernel > Red Hat, Inc. > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > -- *Those who don't understand recursion are doomed to repeat it*
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