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

[vmisev]

I tried with lightdm. It wasn't wanting to log in at all. I didn't try with .xinitrc script. But none of the Wayland launchers wanted to work with lightdm for some reason.

C'mon fellas, I do not use Wayland nor I'll want to, ever!
But, you'll need greeter .desktop file into ../lightdm/greeters with a X-LightDM-Session-Type=wayland line.

At least, that works for Linux folks.
Try it.

 

[astyle]

One way to work around this Ctrl-C bug has been described very well in this post:

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Post in thread 'FreeBSD Screen Shots'

Thursday at 8:54 PM

Most Wayland proponents would call that a smashing success.

However, I'm now curious about the Ctrl-C bug that is being discussed in this thread at this time: Thread trying-to-run-kde-6-plasma-with-wayland.93951. Start on p. 24 for an idea of how the conversation went.

Does Kate demonstrate the bug for you like in that conversation? Because that is quite a showstopper right now.

That's not a KDE bug. That's a sddm bug and I don't use sddm, therefore I'm simply not experiencing it.

My system is geli-encrypted and I use autologin for my user; I start KDE directly via a...

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Re-posting this here, because it's relevant.

Would be nice to see the SDDM bug resolved, rather than employ a hacky workaround. This being FreeBSD, however.... it would not surprise me to see those directions make their way into User Handbook at this point.