Trying to run KDE 6 Plasma with Wayland....

Maxnix said:
Thank you, but I already know about that bug, and already have a patched version compiled locally.
Maybe it needs to be recompiled, will give a try.
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Be careful with the graphics stack - esp. mesa-libs and related stuff like libclc and spirv-llvm-translator. That stuff seems to prefer to be compiled with the same version of LLVM.

I tried to compile my way into KDE Plasma Wayland several times over, and sometimes parts of the graphics stack would not compile, so I had to do a pkg fetch on some of those libs. It turned out to be a bad move, at least for me, the graphics stack would fall apart and not work, and it was difficult to troubleshoot. My troubleshooting difficulties are at least in part because I don't know where to look to capture error messages when things crash, and graphics are an unwieldy beast.

My personal observation was that paying attention to the LLVM flavor in use made a difference for me. Right now, I'm just happy that amdgpu driver/firmware behaves for me.
 
Ok, boys (and girls), I just compiled my KDE compositor without all the nasty X11 stuff, and I got it to work. It's a thing of beauty. I spent hours on this, but it's done and done.

Basically, just compiled x11-wm/plasma6-kwin with a couple of flags (of course, it needed a few source modifications). Installed it. And launched my KDE manually - not via startplasma-wayland but via kwin_wayland with all the environment and the KDE services.

X11 exorcism complete. 👿

Note: it's not just X11 crap that needed to be excised but EIS as well - an additional very nasty parasitic code.
 
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