Wayland Woes and a Couple of Leap 16 Fixes

Lew Wolfgang <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:03:00 -0700
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Hi Folks,

After migrating my home system from Leap 15.6 to 16 a few weeks ago
by using the opensuse-migration-tool I was left with KDE in an odd state.
All my various windows from my eight virtual desktops were all piled on
top of each other.  Okay, so spend some time dispatching everything to
their correct placement, but after logging in again the pile reappeared!

Okay, so this is a "bug" in Wayland that will certainly be fixed at some 
point.
Going back to X11 returned sanity to KDE, and my life has been good.

But then I saw Liam's recent El Reg article on the Wayland situation and
was truly astonished to learn that the window pileup is considered to be
a Wayland "feature"!  WTFO!!!

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/07/09/kde-plasma-users-face-a-dire-omen-of-change-666-arrives/5269267

Read that article if you want to become sad.  Read the comments if you
want to become truly depressed.

It seems that IBM's purchase of Red Hat is the driver for The Coming 
Disturbance.

To remain on-topic, I had three problems after my Leap 16 migration:

Window Placement
VirtualBox failure
Signal Flatpak failure

Window placement was fixed by going back to X11.

Virtualbox failed because the migration loaded the KVM kernel modules.
Unload and lock out them and VB is happy.

Signal Flatpak had a problem with sockets in /tmp/.X11-unix.  This fixed it:

sudo rm -rf /tmp/.X11-unix
sudo mkdir -p /tmp/.X11-unix
sudo chown root:root /tmp/.X11-unix
sudo chmod 1777 /tmp/.X11-unix
reboot

Depressed,
Lew

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    Hi Folks,<br>
    <br>
    After migrating my home system from Leap 15.6 to 16 a few weeks ago<br>
    by using the opensuse-migration-tool I was left with KDE in an odd
    state.<br>
    All my various windows from my eight virtual desktops were all piled
    on<br>
    top of each other.  Okay, so spend some time dispatching everything
    to<br>
    their correct placement, but after logging in again the pile
    reappeared!<br>
    <br>
    Okay, so this is a "bug" in Wayland that will certainly be fixed at
    some point.<br>
    Going back to X11 returned sanity to KDE, and my life has been good.<br>
    <br>
    But then I saw Liam's recent El Reg article on the Wayland situation
    and<br>
    was truly astonished to learn that the window pileup is considered
    to be<br>
    a Wayland "feature"!  WTFO!!!<br>
    <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/07/09/kde-plasma-users-face-a-dire-omen-of-change-666-arrives/5269267">https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/07/09/kde-plasma-users-face-a-dire-omen-of-change-666-arrives/5269267</a><br>
    <br>
    Read that article if you want to become sad.  Read the comments if
    you<br>
    want to become truly depressed.<br>
    <br>
    It seems that IBM's purchase of Red Hat is the driver for The Coming
    Disturbance.<br>
    <br>
    To remain on-topic, I had three problems after my Leap 16 migration:<br>
    <br>
    Window Placement<br>
    VirtualBox failure<br>
    Signal Flatpak failure<br>
    <br>
    Window placement was fixed by going back to X11.<br>
    <br>
    Virtualbox failed because the migration loaded the KVM kernel
    modules.<br>
    Unload and lock out them and VB is happy.<br>
    <br>
    Signal Flatpak had a problem with sockets in /tmp/.X11-unix.  This
    fixed it:<br>
    <br>
    <span style="font-family:monospace"><span
        style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">sudo rm -rf
        /tmp/.X11-unix</span><span
        style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">
      </span><br>
      <span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">sudo mkdir
        -p /tmp/.X11-unix</span><span
        style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">
      </span><br>
      <span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">sudo chown
        root:root /tmp/.X11-unix</span><span
        style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">
      </span><br>
      <span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">sudo chmod
        1777 /tmp/.X11-unix</span><span
        style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">
      </span><br>
      <span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">reboot</span><br>
    </span><span style="font-family:monospace"><span
        style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;"><br>
      </span></span>Depressed,<br>
    Lew<br>
    <br>
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