On Monday, 5 August 2024 23:56:02 BST Daniel Frey wrote: > On 8/5/24 09:58, Wols Lists wrote: > > On 05/08/2024 17:30, Daniel Frey wrote: > >> 1. Logins don't work reliably. I use KDE/SDDM and when logging in it > >> appears to start on a new VT and sometime it doesn't start. Or it will > >> start the new VT and fail to switch to it, leaving a text console and > >> a blinking cursor. This didn't happen when using X11. > > > > Last I investigated, sddm had a *hard* dependency on X11. So even if > > you're running a Wayland system (like I am) you need X installed so that > > sddm will work. > > > > Daft, I know, but that seems to be the way things are at the moment ... > > > > Cheers,Wol > > I even tried enabling wayland for sddm (which is apparently > experimental) but it didn't help either. > > Both X11 and wayland appear to be installed.
I have not been able to make SDDM to launch rootless, either with x11-user, or
wayland (configured to use kwin). On both of these two settings SDDM tries to
launch on VT1 instead of VT7, which is occupied by the boot process agetty and
consequently blocks SDDM from starting:
(EE) HELPER: Failed to take control of "/dev/tty1" ("root"): Operation not
permitted
I see there's a fix for this:
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/1896
but I don't think it has arrived in portage yet, or if it has it still won't
work here on stable Plasma on openrc and no plymouth.
> I just find it odd that a lot of DEs (and distros) are defaulting to
> wayland when it's horribly broken.
>
> Dan
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