On Friday, 25 June 2021 08:50:32 BST antlists wrote: > On 23/06/2021 10:11, jdm wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 16:17:41 +0100 > > > > Michael <confabul...@kintzios.com> wrote: > >> On Monday, 21 June 2021 17:27:31 BST Wols Lists wrote: > >>> What happens when you get to the end of the handbook? > >>> > >>> I want to get a working Wayland setup with a (multi-user) graphical > >>> login. When I set my old system up ($DEITY knows how long ago) I > >>> seem to remember a page on setting up X, and all sorts of stuff. > >>> > >>> Now, you seem to get dumped at working tty1 prompt, and then the > >>> *helpful* documentation JUST STOPS. It doesn't even point you at > >>> anything! (Yes it points you at the portage page about how to > >>> maintain your system, but that isn't much use if you can't DO > >>> anything with the system...) > >>> > >>> I've found the page on Wayland, but it just says "set this use flag > >>> and install two packages". > >>> > >>> Where's the documentation that tells me what I need, and how to set > >>> it up, please ... > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> Wol > >> > >> Have you tried using a Display Manager? Some of my systems won't > >> work with Wayland, but I haven't spent time to find out why all I get > >> with them is a black screen. > >> > >> Anyway, from a VT you'd run something like: > >> > >> XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland > >> > >> or > >> > >> XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session gnome-session > > > > There is a wayland greeter which uses greetd and gtkgreet which may > > be worth looking at and there is a gentoo wiki which goes a long with > > it. It works with wayfire which is a nice wayland window manager and is > > very reliable. > > > > Also look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Wayland_Desktop_Landscape > > Thanks, but I'm none the wiser ... the thing is, for X the instructions > are simple - "install xorg, run startx". > > Okay, I've done that and got errors I need to solve, but with Wayland I > just don't have a clue. I don't know what I need, I don't know how to > start it, all I've got is a pile of bits in a box, and I don't know what > to do with them. > > Everything I find is like a meccano set - there's loads of bits and > pieces, but no instructions, and I don't have a clue how they fit > together. Where's the recipe that says "do this this and this and you > should have a gui"? > > Cheers, > Wol
>From what I recall as long as you set USE="wayland" globally and re-emerge world with '--changed-use' you should able to launch your dekstop in wayland, rather than Xserver. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Wayland There is a caveat, to make things simple: your desktop environment should have full support for wayland compositing - e.g. Plasma and Gnome come ready baked with their own compositor and will run in Wayland. Window managers which do not possess a compositor will require one installed separately, as noted in jdm's post, but then we're getting into a box with a pile of bits in it. To launch wayland you can either install a Display Manager and select to start wayland from its GUI options, instead of X11, or you can run the stanzas I provided above.
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
