Re: kde/plasma and wayland

Hi,

Am Sonntag, 19. November 2017, 11:51:44 CET schrieb Alin Marin Elena:
> Since Martin called last month for kde with wayland to be tested i kept 
> putting it back. I finally moved to plasma session with wayland. 
> Good news is it started and opened the kde wallet which is progress compared 
> with last time I tried. 
> 
> there are however few other things that seem not to work 
> 1. starting kontact or any application from suite fails 
> 
> with 
> 
> Using Wayland-EGL 
> WebEngine compiled with X11 support, however qpa backend is not xcb. This may 
> fail. 
> 
> starting with xcb as backend and it runs. 

Looks like the message is right. For now you should forget about WebEngine
on wayland.

[...]
> 2. starting yast2 as user also fails after being prompted by password, used the 
> 
> xhost warkaround 

That's because the YaST launcher uses xdg-su.
You can start a true wayland YaST by doing the xhost workaround (only needed
because of https://github.com/libyui/libyui-qt/issues/75) and running
sudo -E /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2controlcenter instead.

> 3. second screen usage. at least one gets signal on both screens.... but good 
> 
> part stops there. 
> 
> once the cable is in plasma crashes. 
> 
> I have the panel of the laptop 4k the external screen 4k. scaling gets set to 
> 
> 1x for both rather than 2 
> 
> quality of rendering is bad.... i suspect the scaling i borked 
> 
> alt+f2 starts still on the laptop screen despite the primary screen being the external one. 

Try to search for those bugs upstream, if you can't find them, create reports.

> 4. spectacle seems to not be able to take rectangle areas screenshots. 
> 
> Now my question. How do we report the bugs knowing that in the past people did not like to look at bugs coming from KDE:Unstable 

Report them on bugs.kde.org.

Cheers,
Fabian

> 
> here are my repos for unstable. 
> 
> zypper lr -d | grep Unstable 
> 
> 1 | KDE_Unstable_Applications | Git versions of KDE Applications (Fully KF5 
> Based !!) (KDE_Unstable_Frameworks) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 90 
> | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Unstable:/ 
> Applications/KDE_Unstable_Frameworks_openSUSE_Factory/ | 
> 
> 2 | KDE_Unstable_Extra | Unstable KDE Applications 
> (KDE_Unstable_Frameworks_openSUSE_Factory) | Yes | (r ) Yes 
> | Yes | 90 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/ 
> KDE:/Unstable:/Extra/KDE_Unstable_Frameworks_openSUSE_Factory/ | 
> 
> 3 | KDE_Unstable_Frameworks | The new KDE Frameworks 5 based on Qt 5.7 
> (openSUSE_Factory) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 
> 90 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Unstable:/ 
> Frameworks/openSUSE_Factory/ | 
> 
> 4 | KDE_Unstable_Qt | Latest version of Qt needed by the 
> KDE:Unstable repostories (openSUSE_Tumbleweed) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes 
> | 90 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/ 
> Unstable:/Qt/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ | 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Alin
> 
> 


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