Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 23:19:49 +0100 From: Lars Tunkrans <drsnx60@gmail.com> To: alice Sowerby <alice@freebsdfoundation.org>, freebsd@ny-central.org, Alfonso Sabato Siciliano <alfix86@gmail.com>, emaste@freebsdfoundation.org, freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org Subject: [LDWG] running KDE6 on WAYLAND for 16-current and 15-stable Message-ID: <b636ad80-5fcd-48e9-9bfa-756d4fe7abfb@gmail.com>
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HI, Alice asked me to look into starting Wayland/KDE6/Plasma6 on Nvidia GPU on FreeBSD 15. I have now tried KDE6-Plasma6-Wayland on Freebsd15-stable with NVIDIA GPU RTX4000-ADA, that i upgraded yesterday 2026-01-28 with latest stable 15 src tree and latest /usr/ports/ tree. I decided to use the same approach that I used on 16-current , to include "WAYLAND" in the /etc/make.conf OPTIONS_SET_FORCE list. This builds the KDE6_Plasma6 binaries with usable WAYLAND environment when doing a manual build of x11/xorg, x11/gnome, x11/kde x11/kde-gear, graphics/nvidia_drm_kmod sysutils/seatd . WAYLAND parts is buildt as a biproduct. ( the NVIDIA setup is the standard documented setup from the handbook ) Previously I had not FORCED SET wayland form the /etc/make.conf on this workstation. and export WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS=1 export KWIN_FORCE_SW_CURSOR=1 in $HOME/.profile to address the non showing cursor. I now believe that the reason for difficulties of setting up wayland with KDE6_Plasma6 and Nvidia GPU is because some binary packages in the repos are built without the Wayland options. I now have the following compiled ports with a configured option of WAYLAND . ( list below extracted from /var/db/ports options lists ) devel_sdl20 devel_sdl3 graphics_gstreamer1-plugins-gl graphics_mesa-dri graphics_mesa-libs graphics_plasma6-spectacle graphics_vulkan-loader graphics_vulkan-tools multimedia_gstreamer1-vaapi multimedia_libva multimedia_libxine multimedia_mpv multimedia_vlc net_freerdp3 sysutils_gnome-control-center sysutils_gnome-settings-daemon textproc_ibus www_webkit2-gtk x11-toolkits_gtk30 x11-toolkits_gtk40 x11-wm_mutter x11_libxkbcommon I believe it should be ensured that Wayland compile-time option is included when building the binary Repo packages. This makes wayland start on NVIDIA KDE6 Plasma6 for both Freebsd 15 and 16. using $ exec dbus-launch ck-launch-session startplasma-wayland Regards -- ------------------------- Lars Tunkrans Oracle SPARC/Solaris System Administrator Fujitsu M12 SPARC Specilaisthome | help
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