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.
We already have WAYLAND option enabled for all KDE ports. There is no need to tweak OPTIONS_SET and build packages yourself. > 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 All these ports build with WAYLAND support by default, except multimedia/libxine, which is not used by KDE ports anyway. > 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 Alternatively you can just run SDDM and choose Plasma Wayland. Cheers, Max
