On Saturday, 10 June 2023 01:19:06 BST Jack wrote: > I've been running xorg (KDE Plasma) for years, and have been perfectly > happy, but every now and then I have tried wayland, with less or even > less success. My recent attempts give me a plasma session in the upper > 1024 x 768 of a monitor that does 1920x1080. It also doesn't recognize > the second monitor at all. However, the mouse cursor moves freely > across all of both monitors.
Stating the obvious, but have you tried systemsettings to change the Display resolution? Logout, then login. Also, have you tried dropping into a console and back again into the wayland desktop? I know some of the above sounds like cargo-culting, but I have found them to work with mixed results. > I've modified /etc/default/grub per the > Wayland wiki page with no change. My main question right now is where > to find any log of the wayland session. There is a KDE page which says > where to look if you launch wayland from sddm, but I'm launching from a > command line, using startx, with the last line in .winitrc (so I can > also keep my original .xinitrc) of either "exec dbus-run-session > startplasma-wayland" or "exec dbus-launch --sh-syntax > --exit-with-session startplasma-wayland". Without sddm, you can run the startplasma-wayland stanza from a console, do your thing, logout and the console would have captured various logs - just as startx does. Alternatively, to check wayland or xwayland applications from within wayland, run in a terminal: qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin org.kde.KWin.showDebugConsole I moved to wayland 2-3 years ago for the opposite reasons to you. After the odd update(s) Xorg had started playing up with two monitors, causing the Plasma Task Manager to disappear, messing up the resolution, switching the primary monitor from left to right, and other problems I can't recall. Reconfiguring Plasma settings would not survive a reboot. I never bottomed out the causes of these problems (Plasma, Xorg video driver, mesa) and was about to give up on Plasma when I thought of trying out Wayland. Surprisingly Wayland provided a more stable desktop than Xorg had become! I have three systems running Wayland, all with radeon graphics. I don't know if Nvidia needs particular tweaking for NVENC, I've no experience with Nvidia in general. An intel laptop with Enlightenment works in Wayland, although the odd xwayland application fails to launch (e.g. Gkrellms).
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