HI,
Alice asked me to look into starting Wayland/KDE6/Plasma6 on
Nvidia GPU on FreeBSD 15.
I have now tried KDE6-Plasma6-Wayland on Freebsd15-stable with NVIDIA
GPU RTX4000-ADA, that i upgraded yesterday 2026-01-28 with latest
stable 15 src tree and latest /usr/ports/ tree.
I decided to use the same approach that I used on 16-current , to
include "WAYLAND" in the /etc/make.conf OPTIONS_SET_FORCE list.
This builds the KDE6_Plasma6 binaries with usable WAYLAND environment
when doing a manual build of
x11/xorg, x11/gnome, x11/kde x11/kde-gear, graphics/nvidia_drm_kmod
sysutils/seatd . WAYLAND parts is buildt as a biproduct.
( the NVIDIA setup is the standard documented setup from the handbook )
Previously I had not FORCED SET wayland form the /etc/make.conf on this
workstation.
and
export WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS=1
export KWIN_FORCE_SW_CURSOR=1
in $HOME/.profile
to address the non showing cursor.
I now believe that the reason for difficulties of setting up wayland
with KDE6_Plasma6 and Nvidia GPU is because
some binary packages in the repos are built without the Wayland options.
I now have the following compiled ports with a configured option of
WAYLAND .
( list below extracted from /var/db/ports options lists )
devel_sdl20
devel_sdl3
graphics_gstreamer1-plugins-gl
graphics_mesa-dri
graphics_mesa-libs
graphics_plasma6-spectacle
graphics_vulkan-loader
graphics_vulkan-tools
multimedia_gstreamer1-vaapi
multimedia_libva
multimedia_libxine
multimedia_mpv
multimedia_vlc
net_freerdp3
sysutils_gnome-control-center
sysutils_gnome-settings-daemon
textproc_ibus
www_webkit2-gtk
x11-toolkits_gtk30
x11-toolkits_gtk40
x11-wm_mutter
x11_libxkbcommon
I believe it should be ensured that Wayland compile-time option is
included when building the binary Repo packages.
This makes wayland start on NVIDIA KDE6 Plasma6 for both Freebsd 15 and 16.
using
$ exec dbus-launch ck-launch-session startplasma-wayland
Regards
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Lars Tunkrans
Oracle SPARC/Solaris System Administrator
Fujitsu M12 SPARC Specilaist
