On 28/06/21 20:23, antlists wrote: > 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 default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/plasma/systemd (stable). >> >> Then update @world. You should be good to go as long as video drivers >> and >> firmware are in place, but if X11 is not working this could be an area >> meriting further investigation. >> > Okay, ... > > One new kernel later (along with some grub debugging :-), world updated, > ... > > X11 still isn't working - first it complained it couldn't find twm, so I > emerged that, now startx just runs and exits, and the log doesn't seem > to show anything wrong ... > > Wayland is interesting ... if I try to startplasma-wayland, it comes up > with the starting plasma stuff, and there's a mouse cursor, but nothing > except a black screen and the cursor. When I kill it from a root tty, > there's an error > > Failed to create wl_display (No such file or directory) > > which a google tells me I haven't got a compositor ... > > I also get further errors, but they're probably a consequence - > > Could not load the Qt platform plugin "Wayland" in "" even though it was > found > > and the same error for xcb. > So simple. I was missing "emerge plasma-meta".
This is where it would be nice to have something like the handbook, or a chapter in the handbook, on bringing up a working graphical environment. Now to get something like sddm working :-) (Plus updating my SUSE version to 15.3, re-organising my hardware, blah blah blah :-) Cheers, Wol
