Re: dipping a toe in waywater? :)

2020-07-04 Thread René J . V . Bertin
René J. V. Bertin wrote: > And applications that I start with `-platform wayland` aren't decorated, as if > kwin is either a WM or else a wayland compositor, but not the former inside > the latter... Which is actually what I was hoping to get! OK, belay that, apparently was because my Mesa instal

Re: dipping a toe in waywater? :)

2020-07-03 Thread René J . V . Bertin
Kai Uwe Broulik wrote: > Is it Mac OS? No, nor a bird, nor a tree ;) Even I wouldn't dream of testing KWin/Wayland on Mac. Just yet - I do dream of Wayland supporting Darwin but there a few too many dependencies on the Linux kernel for that (in KWin too, IIRC) that should be resolved first. A

Re: dipping a toe in waywater? :)

2020-07-03 Thread Kai Uwe Broulik
> this is not a standard set-up, so just selecting wayland as a login option on > the login manager screen isn't an option. Is it Mac OS?

Re: dipping a toe in waywater? :)

2020-07-03 Thread René J . V . Bertin
David Redondo wrote: > Hello René, > > maybe this blog post from Aleix can help you. It explains how to started a > nested session or wayland session. > https://www.proli.net/2020/04/03/developing-kwin-wayland/ Thanks David. That does look like things I already tried (and didn't work; starting

Re: dipping a toe in waywater? :)

2020-07-03 Thread David Redondo
Hello René, maybe this blog post from Aleix can help you. It explains how to started a nested session or wayland session. https://www.proli.net/2020/04/03/developing-kwin-wayland/ Regard, David

Re: dipping a toe in waywater? :)

2020-07-03 Thread David Edmundson
Select "plasma (wayland)" from SDDM. David

dipping a toe in waywater? :)

2020-07-03 Thread René J . V . Bertin
Hi, I hope this is the best place to ask: I understand that KWin is its own wayland server/compositor/whatever-you-call it, so it might be possible to use kwin_wayland to get an impression of running a desktop under Wayland instead of X11? If so, is there a succinct tutorial somewhere showing