What's state Plasma 5.17.x or 5.18.x with Wayland?

zoujiaqing · Jan 29, 2020

Can't find the tutorial! no any news and signal! But we see that the latest versions of Wayland and Plasma are already available in ports. How to make them work properly? How are things now?

Sevendogsbsd · Jan 30, 2020

I assume the same as this thread Thread 73857. Wayland is a very immature project regardless of the desktop environment.

zoujiaqing · Feb 1, 2020

Sevendogsbsd said:
I assume the same as this thread Thread 73857. Wayland is a very immature project regardless of the desktop environment.

Thanks！I will be try.

jdrch · Mar 8, 2020

Wayland barely works on Linux, much less FreeBSD.

zoujiaqing · Mar 9, 2020

jdrch said:
Wayland barely works on Linux, much less FreeBSD.

Realy? I used Gnome 3 on wayland. (Fedora 29 is 2018 version ..)

jdrch · Mar 9, 2020

zoujiaqing said:
Realy? I used Gnome 3 on wayland. (Fedora 29 is 2018 version ..)

By "barely works" I meant there's a lot of stuff that was developed for use with Xorg and still doesn't work with Wayland. I don't think the latter is anywhere near ready for primetime. It will be, eventually, but not now. Might be as long and painful as the Python 2.x to 3.x transition, which is only just now in full swing after having started nearly a decade ago.

zoujiaqing · Mar 9, 2020

jdrch said:
By "barely works" I meant there's a lot of stuff that was developed for use with Xorg and still doesn't work with Wayland. I don't think the latter is anywhere near ready for primetime. It will be, eventually, but not now. Might be as long and painful as the Python 2.x to 3.x transition, which is only just now in full swing after having started nearly a decade ago.

Thank you! It is expected that Wayland can be used on FreeBSD.

jdrch · Mar 9, 2020

zoujiaqing said:
Thank you! It is expected that Wayland can be used on FreeBSD.

Well, I got KDE setup on FreeBSD last night and tried Plasma on Wayland. My display went blank and nothing happened. Good luck.

zoujiaqing · Mar 10, 2020

jdrch said:
Well, I got KDE setup on FreeBSD last night and tried Plasma on Wayland. My display went blank and nothing happened. Good luck.

Thank you jdrch!

jdrch · Mar 10, 2020

zoujiaqing said:
Thank you jdrch!

Yw!

unitrunker · Mar 11, 2020

I was able to run Wayland client using sway. Not the same as full Wayland desktop but useful for some of us.

vater · Mar 16, 2020

unitrunker how to set up sway? (i could not find a tutorial. and it does not work out of the box (for me).) maybe this brings us a step forward to run plasma (kde).