This will open a settings window, with appropriate entries already made. libQt5WaylandClient5-5.7.1-1.1.x86_64 This page was last edited on 23 May 2020, at 12:53. Finally, support for multiple screen handling has been improved in KWin using the new Kephal library. Service started, version: 7.0.0 Open the Command Palette via (⇧⌘P) and type shell command to find the Shell Command: > Install 'code' command in PATH** command. I ran into a problem when I tried to start installing libraries because the PIO command doesn’t exist according to the terminal. [KWin Script] activeClient + slotWindowQuickTile() Not Working Correctly ... As many of you are aware, this is not a traditional virtual machine; WSL1 is an implementation of the Linux kernel ABI on top of the NT kernel. Driver: Intel Session path: “/org/freedesktop/login1/session/c2”, lock called It’s hardware requirements are very modest and pretty much every reasonably modern system since 2002 supports it. (this one was also tested with git versions of Qt, frameworks and plasma), One cannot start konsole with the exit with session argument. 0. wayland-tools-1.11.0-1.mga6 KWin starts fine but the application doesn’t show because of an error message like: This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin “wayland”in “”. Also possibly relevant is that I’m using plasma 5.6 as not all 5.7 packages have been uploaded to sid, but I could upgrade the following packages to 5.7 if that would help: bluedevil breeze breeze-cursor-theme kde-cli-tools kde-cli-tools-data kde-config-gtk-style kde-config-screenlocker kde-config-sddm kde-style-breeze kde-style-breeze-qt4 kde-style-oxygen-qt5 kgamma5 khotkeys khotkeys-data kinfocenter kscreen ksysguard ksysguard-data ksysguardd kwayland-integration kwin-common kwin-data kwin-style-breeze kwin-wayland kwin-wayland-backend-x11 kwin-x11 kwrited libkdecorations2-5v5 libkdecorations2private5v5 libkf5libkdepim-data libkf5libkdepim-plugins libkf5libkdepim5 libkf5sysguard-bin libkf5sysguard-data libkscreenlocker5 libksgrd7 libksignalplotter7 libkwin4-effect-builtins1 libkwineffects8 libkwinglutils8 libkwinxrenderutils8 liboxygenstyle5-5 liboxygenstyleconfig5-5 libprocesscore7 libprocessui7 milou oxygen-sounds plasma-integration plasma-pa qml-module-qtquick-controls-styles-breeze systemsettings user-manager. Texture NPOT support: yes Could some of the error messages be more verbose go reduce the need for this blog post? `export $(dbus-launch)` Then at some point my system froze again. > kf5.kcoreaddons.kaboutdata: Could not initialize the equivalent properties of Q*Application: no instance (yet) existing. I think it wouldn’t help much as we don’t have the hardware to properly investigate. Using an other style, with smaller windows decorations. Before trying: make sure that you don’t use the NVIDIA proprietary driver, if you do: sorry that’s not yet supported. Service started, version: 7.0.0 – Option 2 works fine (there is no window to resize, after all, – Running startplasmacompositor from a VT did show the splash, but then I just got a black screen with a cursor. As the comment section may not be appropriate/efficient for a ‘debugging’ session, I’ve changed my email address to one I actually check on a regular basis. After starting kwrite I clicked in its main menu and moved mouse cursor through all menus. Best get in contact with us to check what works and if you are interested: please help in adding support for it. kwin_core: The used windowing system requires compositing Creating directory: “/home/piotrm/.local/share/kactivitymanagerd/resources/” Log in to a tty and setup similar to nested setup – I recommend the exit-with-session command line option to have a nice defined setup to exit again: export $(dbus-launch) KCrash: Application ‘plasmashell’ crashing… OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GT 430/PCIe/SSE2 Or is it really a kernel driver issue? You might need to use KWIN_COMPOSE=Q. You can take control and disable these checks or change settings like the global animation speed to fine-tune your experience. I’ve gathered that there might be something going on with MS VSCode C++ Plugin or something to do with Python or something to do with AV Software. OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GTX 980 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 New desktop effects like the Cube desktop switcher and Magic Lamp minimize animation have been added. You can now use tab to switc… 1. plasmashell crashed. The "." Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. In output I have received (I put only errors): kwin_core: Failed to initialize compositing, compositing disabled Well, if I had another tablet, I’d totally donate this one, since Poulsbo is a pain in either case . Will test again when Frameworks 5.24 and Plasma 5.7 hit the Manjaro repos. xprop: unable to open display ” GitHub is where people build software. sock_file=/run/user/1000/kdeinit5__0, It didn’t start xwayland and tried to connect to your main x system, Also on nested setup nvidia is not supported. Texture NPOT support: yes Driver: Intel OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 12.0.1 There’s a trend in error messages (say: in compilers) to provide a helping of useful suggestions with your failure. xorg-server-xwayland: 1.18.3-3 "startkde" not found If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ. file:///usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breeze.desktop/contents/components/UserDelegate.qml:82:9: QML Image: Cannot open: file:///usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breeze.desktop/contents/components/system-switch-user. Depends on how recent your system is. OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Sandybridge Mobile KCrash: Application Name = kwin_wayland path = /usr/bin pid = 16789 OpenGL shading language version string: 3.30 [0] https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2016/07/why-does-kwin_wayland-not-start/ With this blog post I want to show some of the most common problems and how to diagnose correctly what’s going wrong. Given that KWin was designed as a X11 Window Manager and later as a X11 compositor the question is valid, why not to implement a new Wayland compositor from scratch. kwin_core: Egl Initialize succeeded While writing the software program, you may have dealt with several commands. import QtQuick.VirtualKeyboard 2.1 GLSL version: 3.30 When pressing Ctrl+C I get a segmentation violation crash in kwin_wayland: “kwin_wayland[28160]: segfault at 20 ip 00007f5ba9aa8952 sp 00007fff9f538378 error 4 in libwayland-server.so.0.1.0[7f5ba9a9d000+10000]”. _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: …SocketCreateListener() failed If not we need to try to look into your specific setup. This is very difficult to say without the hardware in question to properly investigate. Could we add something like “Check if it is installed.” or “Maybe you forgot to install it?” to the xwayland launch error, though? GLSL version: 4.30 Configuring Lock Action kwayland-5.21.0git.20160803T114525~2617265-9.1.x86_64 Please get in contact with your distribution on how to get the logind DBus interface installed (this does neither require using systemd nor logind). > The session is not registered: “PID 29080 does not belong to any known session” – Option 1 works, until I dare resizing the embedded Kwin window. OpenGL shading language version string: 1.40 NVIDIA via Cg compiler Requires strict binding: no pam_kwallet-0.0.1git.1454233429.d749c2d-31.1.x86_64 After that clicking in any pop-up menu from main menu makes that it is shown at the position/height of title bar (not main menu as I expected). 3. GPU class: SandyBridge Wouldn’t it be possible to try and simulate that by simply not having a video card driver other than llvmpipe built into Mesa? > file:///usr/share/kwin/virtualkeyboard/main.qml:21:1: module “QtQuick.VirtualKeyboard” is not installed file:///usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breeze.desktop/contents/components/UserDelegate.qml:82:9: QML Image: Cannot open: file:///usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breeze.desktop/contents/components/user-identity file:///usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breeze.desktop/contents/components/UserDelegate.qml:82:9: QML Image: Cannot open: file:///usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breeze.desktop/contents/components/system-log-out and OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center It also handles placing of windows and switching between them. OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) HD Graphics 530 (Skylake GT2) _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: …SocketCreateListener() failed Session path: “/org/freedesktop/login1/session/_32” libwayland-client0-1.11.0-1.3.x86_64 Setting the name of 0x13b3970 to “org.kde.ActivityManager.RunApplication” kwayland-integration-5.7.1-1.mga6 cat /etc/pam.d/system-login Virtual Machine: no 4. or the current kwin code does not support whatever stuff done in a wired way by nvidia? GPU class: SandyBridge startplasmacompositor: Shutting down… Martin, what’s your preferred distribution for testing/running/developing KWin/Wayland? The options open to you may depend on your distribution or theme, and it's clear that there is more to come. I'm not sure when it happened, but I just found out while trying to restart kwin, and I figured it might help someone else. import QtQuick.VirtualKeyboard 2.1 KWin has seen many performance improvements to enable these effects even on low-end hardware. But if you have instructions on how to do it, I’d be happy to try it. Position the window where you want it to open, then right-click on the title-bar, choosing Advanced -> Special Window Settings. No backend specified through command line argument, trying auto resolution Like calling to start xwayland: we know it failed, but not that it’s not installed. I’m missing some debug output which should have been there if it succeeded. ^ To me wayland does not even start with Plasma 5.7.1 and KF 5.24. wayland-errors gives: file:///usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breeze.desktop/contents/lockscreen/MainBlock.qml:42: TypeError: Cannot read property ‘Locked’ of undefined ksylvest March 16, 2018, 5:33pm #7 X-Server started on display :1 ^ (kwin_wayland:1860): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: file:///usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breeze.desktop/contents/components/UserDelegate.qml:82:9: QML Image: Cannot open: file:///usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breeze.desktop/contents/components/system-log-out It gives you complete control over your windows, making sure they're not in the way but aid you in your task. into $HOME/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf kwin_core: The used windowing system requires compositing sudo nano /etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-session.xml. u/Yummychickenblue. How can I invoke my JavaScript-based kwin script from the command line? OpenGL version: 4.3 Cleaning up… Linux kernel version: 4.6 lib64wayland-devel-1.11.0-1.mga6 For the “real thing” you need: kwin-wayland-backend-drm. X-Server started on display :1 Close. No backend specified through command line argument, trying auto resolution glamor: EGL version 1.4 (DRI2): X-Server started on display :0 xorg-x11-server-wayland-7.6_1.18.4-1.1.x86_64 kwalletd5-5.25.0git.20160724T133134~8cf7300-2.2.x86_64 journal_mode: QVariant(QString, “wal”) All was OK. After that I moved window and I did the same. > file:///usr/share/kwin/virtualkeyboard/main-enterprise.qml:21:1: module “QtQuick.Enterprise.VirtualKeyboard” is not installed Requires strict binding: no Of course if some day the XWayland display is no longer :1, then it won’t work again :/. KWin works fine in the nested setup: awesome. Could you clarify? Employing motion physics, KWin provides your windows with a more natural feel. X-Server started on display :1 Sorry missed to write that. import QtQuick.VirtualKeyboard 2.1 Looks like it might a case of a missing platform plugin or something weird with KScreen. “` Running kwin_wayland on a tty: Mesa version: 12.0.1 I’m not able to detect a pattern for your system. > Failed to create display (No such file or directory), kwin_wayland –xwayland –libinput from tty freezes in eventloop in 3 threads. There are still some issues with certain hardware, more info about that can be found on techbase. Installed Wayland packages are following: To be clear above refers to SkyLake platform: Archived. Though we unfortunately do not see why KWin failed to initialize compositing. kwin_core: The used windowing system requires compositing Well, first of all, for the second test GLSL version: 1.30 QObject::connect: invalid null parameter GLSL shaders: yes Upgrading the driver to 364 gave a (slightly) better result: $ export $(dbus-launch) In most cases this means that KWin will also work on the DRM device. Nvidia decided to go a different route for Wayland. X-Server started on display :1 kwin has 59 repositories available. kwin_wayland –xwayland –libinput –virtual –exit-with-session=kate Driver: NVIDIA Driver version: 364.19 GLSL version: 4.30 kwin_core: Failed to initialize compositing, compositing disabled OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Sandybridge Mobile qtwayland5-5.6.1-2.mga6 All you need to do now is select the Size & Position tab and check Position and Size. Apache Sling and Jackrabbit PMC member. OpenGL version string: 4.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 12.0.1 A window opens titled "LXQt Session Settings". Linux kernel version: 4.6.4 To select kwin as window manager, select it from the Preferences > LXQt settings > Session Settings panel menu item. Since 5.4 KWin is able to manage Wayland clients and this allows to start a Plasma session on Wayland. Service started, version: 7.0.0 Reinstalling the application may fix … $ export $(dbus-launch) > QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 29 with type Read, disabling… OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30 Convert a Column/List of items to CSV. Driver version: 364.19 Not sure. Before you ask your administrator for help, please consider the following points- ^ Texture NPOT support: yes i can get weston working but not kde-wayland…, had to use arches aur weston-eglstream to get it working. It would be great to put it in the KDE wiki for wayland. This website uses cookies to improve your experience. The code suggested for Weston is still not merged. Driver: NVIDIA the pageFlip is in the drm layer so after OpenGL/llvmpipe. Linux kernel version: 4.6.4 OpenGL version: 3.1 Experimentation with about:config did not bring satisfactory results. No backend specified through command line argument, trying auto resolution export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland What could also help is enforcing qpainter compositing as KWin still ignores llvmpipe. The second option is set by build system. kwin_core: Egl Initialize succeeded export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland PSA: The kwin command got split into kwin_x11 and kwin_wayland. kwin_core: KGlobalAcceld inited Unfortunately all popup menus were placed in previous position of main menu, not current. KActivities: Database connection: “kactivities_db_resources_140023550953472_readwrite” After executing the command, restart the terminal for the new $PATH value to take effect. Take a look at System Settings -> Application Style -> Window Decorations -> Buttons tab. EDIT / Note. KWin (pronounced "kay-win") is the window manager for the KDE Plasma Desktop. Just tell me what to do. plasma5-session-wayland-5.7.0-1.1.noarch In other words, bashtop may not be installed, and we need to install the same. Learn more about this on the Desktop Effects Performance page. journal_mode: QVariant(QString, “wal”) OpenGL version string: 3.1.0 NVIDIA 364.19 GPU class: Unknown I was able to interact with kwrite without any problems – I wrote some word in this editor. glamor: EGL version 1.4 (DRI2): xf86-video-intel in version: 1:2.99.917+676+g26f8ab5-1 OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Sandybridge Mobile If you want to try Wayland please always first try the nested setup. This is the tricky situation. prints a lot of stuff. My “solution” is to put Purchase books, mugs, apparel, and more to support KDE. Instead of showing you icons or very small previews of your applications, it arranges them in a grid so you can quickly choose the right one. No backend specified through command line argument, trying auto resolution KWin supports multiple platforms and distributions put them in multiple packages. As for elogind kwin_core: We are going to quit KWin now as it is broken. … Configuring Lock Action Workaround: Two good options there: Both routes will give you slim and functional window titles and borders. From butter smooth to temporarily jerky. Cleaning up…, kwrite output: kwin_core: EGL version: 1 . When I back to Wayland sessions I got locked screen (sddm like). export $(dbus-launch) kwin_core: The used windowing system requires compositing wal_autocheckpoint: QVariant(qlonglong, 100) Download and install gtk-chtheme from this website. in any folder to start editing files in that folder. Alternatively, for a more minimal Plasma installation, install the plasma-desktop package.To enable support for Wayland in Plasma, also install the plasma-wayland-session package. Module ‘org.kde.kwin.decoration’ does not contain a module identifier directive – it cannot be protected from external registrations. I would like to handle this better, but I don’t have a system without logind to test. First, install the package kwin and the KDE system settings application(systemsettings) using your favorite package manager or the command: pamac install kwin systemsettings Next, go to your Start Menu and choose: Settings --> LXQt Configuration Center --> Session Settings. Change the "xfwm4" part (and only that part) so it's more like this: . So start your normal X session and run a nested KWin: lib64wayland-egl1-12.0.1-3.mga6 Drag icons there to where you want to see them. pinentry-0.9.7-3.4.x86_64 > The Wayland connection broke. _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: …SocketCreateListener() failed If you have the latest kwayland and plasma 5.7 then all of the that should be reported. Does it bypass login1? OpenGL version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 12.0.1 Texture NPOT support: yes wayland-1.11.0-1, wayland-protocols-1.4-1, I’m running Gentoo without systemd, but I have elogind. No backend specified through command line argument, trying auto resolution In which case, wouldn’t that mean it should be filed as a bug against the kernel or such? Probably the trigger cause is the same as above. QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 9 and type ‘Read’, disabling…, In taskbar I have following extra icons for: clementine, pamac-tray (gtk+ and not working in X11 session), weather widget, system load viewer. > –with-systemduserunitdir=DIR No wallpaper on desktop (black screen). It’s something which will be resolved once all distros have fixed their packaging. kwin_core: Forcing EGL native interface for Wayland mode No backend specified through command line argument, trying auto resolution NVidia for unclear reasons wanted to use the protocol GLStreams, which gives little or not at all gains compared to the current approach, but requires a very big developer effort: modifying both compositors and existing toolkits. OpenGL version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 11.2.2 Driver: NVIDIA Another interesting setup, which fails when just copy-pasting your commands above: I am running a fully updated Fedora 24 [1], logged in to a gnome wayland session. … FATAL ERROR: could not create Wayland server. Works fine for me on Fedora 24. You can for example use the Present Windows as the effect for window switching. Setting the name of 0x1341450 to “org.kde.ActivityManager.ActivityTemplates” I don’t even know what the quainter based compositor is or how to install/enable it. Follow their code on GitHub. OpenGL shading language version string: 4.30 Requires strict binding: no kwin_core: Init of kglobalaccel failed kwin_core: Creating the OpenGL rendering failed: “Required extension GL_OES_EGL_image not found, disabling compositing” lib64kf5wayland5-5.24.0-1.mga6 Except for session locking (elogind part). org/freedesktop/login1/session/ does NOT have .Session in it, On different note, while https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2016/07/why-does-kwin_wayland-not-start/#comment-71360, http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-Wayland-Design-XDC, https://www.mail-archive.com/kde-bugs-dist@kde.org/msg00030.html, https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2016/07/why-does-kwin_wayland-not-start/. Virtual Machine: no Session path: “/org/freedesktop/login1/session/c2” kwayland-5.24.0-1.mga6 > –enable-systemd 4 PSA: The kwin command got split into kwin_x11 and kwin_wayland. OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.systemloadviewer/contents/ui/SystemLoadViewer.qml:246: TypeError: Cannot read property ‘value’ of undefined You may find that you have other icons available to you. > import QtQuick.VirtualKeyboard 2.1 Please install it and try again. ^ Restarting it Konsole inside that session worked, but it crashed again pretty quickly with this message (with the object number being different each time): wl_display@1: error 0: invalid object 174 _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running I mean in password field cursor was blinking, but I wasn’t able to type any letter, only digits and other characters like colon, dot, slash, etc. Oh you didn’t export the variable. Virtual Machine: no For the full experience, you need to use OpenGL mode. Hmm not sure whether we really need it or whether there could be a replacement. Yes one can go crazy and try running KWin on devices like the Nexus 5, Virtual Machines or NVIDIA based systems. OK, assuming that the debug instructions in here are current enough: https://www.mail-archive.com/kde-bugs-dist@kde.org/msg00030.html, The log I get with QPainter is: https://bpaste.net/raw/5c133a51bbca, Also, oddly enough, if I do kwin_wayland –list-backends, it crashes with this output: https://bpaste.net/raw/e96e8f026c3b. Please activate all KWin related debug categories, run it again and report a bug against KWin – ideally for the platform you used. Linux kernel version: 4.6.3 OpenGL version: 3.0 No backend specified through command line argument, trying auto resolution GPU class: SandyBridge Pressing this key nothing changed, still I wasn’t able unlock session. Another icon that you may find useful is Shade - a toggle between rolled up (titlebar only visible) and normal view. Show your love for KDE! It’s an i686 Poulsbo tablet, so while it’s using Mesa DRM drivers, they don’t have hardware acceleration and thus it’s all llvmpipe or friends. From the other system (on tmux or not, although I find it useful to just put it in another tab) we can run sudo gdb --pid `pidof kwin_wayland` and it will attach. Human beings operate a Computer with the help of commands. Setting the name of 0x1345780 to “org.kde.ActivityManager.Resources.Scoring” kwin_wayland –xwayland –libinput –drm –exit-with-session=kate These icons are added by dragging from the text description window onto the speciman title bar - just position them as you want to use them. kwin_wayland --xwayland --exit-with-session=kwrite. QObject::connect: invalid null parameter … > –with-systemdsystemunitdir=DIR file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.taskmanager/contents/ui/ToolTipDelegate.qml:83: TypeError: Cannot read property ‘DesktopEntry’ of undefined Also from testing it looks like KWin has problems with starting a working Xwayland in a nested setup with the OpenGL compositor. Nevermind, sorry for the noise. Using kwin in LXQt. OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GT 430/PCIe/SSE2 import QtQuick.Enterprise.VirtualKeyboard 2.0 That’s a problem I have never heard of – for me lock screen is always working. bash: bashtop: command not found. Click with your right mouse button on a window decoration or use System Settings to access the new and easier configuration of KWin. This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin “wayland”in “”. kwin_core: We are going to quit KWin now as it is broken. You can now use tab to switch through the windows or just activate the right one using the mouse. With it I now get libwayland-cursor0-1.11.0-1.3.x86_64 GTK3 devs probably assumes the same, “it’s job of distros”, so when recently on upgrade my input method stopped working without even a warning, it took me one bug report and 1.5 weeks to find the reason. OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center Why? The four most common reasons why you may see the “command not found” message in the Mac command line are as follows: the command syntax was entered incorrectly the command you are attempting to run is not installed the command was deleted, or, worse… Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time. allright, it’s the lack of GL_OES_EGL_image. 2. Don’t have another wayland compositor running on the same user name. dbus[2213]: [system] Successfully activated service ‘org.freedesktop.login1’, I looked for all login1 mentions in kwin sources and according to qdbusviewer I put a wrapper around it (renaming kwin_x11 into kwin_x11.bin, and creating a bash script that would log an entry into /tmp and call the .bin). KActivities: Database connection: “kactivities_db_resources_139953812350976_readwrite” The debug output hopefully contains more information on why it failed. libkwinglutils: Update of color profiles failed This is on a Debian Sid system and the Compositor system settings are enabled at startup, Rendering backend is OpenGL 3.1 and OpenGL interface is GLX. OpenGL shading language version string: 4.30 Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. In case you're not familiar, it's easy to bind command to hotkeys in KDE -- just right-click the application launcher, go to "Edit Applications", add a new item, enter the shell command in the "Command" box, and then set the shortcut key in the "Advanced" tab. I mean window is not maximized. Right-click on your desktop - select Desktop Settings (or Appearance Settings, in some distros). kwin_wayland –xwayland –exit-with-session=kwrite “` It’s a runtime dependency of KWin. synchronous: QVariant(qlonglong, 1) Feel free to delete my previous comment (and this one). file:///usr/share/plasma/shells/org.kde.plasma.desktop/contents/views/Panel.qml:80: TypeError: Cannot read property ‘formFactor’ of null kwin-wayland-5.7.1-4.mga6 Still digging: I was not sure if kwin_x11 was not starting at all, or if it was crashing just before i could even see window decoration. > ^ `export WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1` _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: …SocketCreateListener() failed But what if not. Or the runtime dir problem: all we see is that it failed. Virtual Machine: no Hitting Alt-Tab keys quickly will show you the next window in the queue, just like it used to. GLSL version: 1.40 file:///usr/share/kwin/virtualkeyboard/main-enterprise.qml:21:1: module “QtQuick.Enterprise.VirtualKeyboard” is not installed For whether that’s a problem with kernel driver: I don’t have enough information. I am on a setup with kde pretty up to date, few days behind the git, kernel 4.7.0, qt 5.7.1, [16:46:42 drFaustroll@circassia:~]: rpm -qa | grep -i wayland It clearly says x11-server-xwayland-1.18.3-15.mga6 ^ In fact, they could’ve succeed if they’d anticipate in the development from the very beginning, but instead they came when everything is almost ready, and asking: let’s rewrite everything from scratch. OK - you are finished! don’t print anything at all when run from tty, kwin_core: We are going to quit KWin now as it is broken, i was wondering if there is a way to get kwin to start through weston? You'll be able to simply type 'code .' file:///usr/share/kwin/virtualkeyboard/main.qml:21:1: module “QtQuick.VirtualKeyboard” is not installed I was able to run nested session (with kwrite inside) – like you described. Using Wayland-EGL, After launching kwrite, I can terminate it correctly by pressing Ctrl+Q in the window, Testing Mageia 6, I experienced the same problem. Elaborate checks have been build in to ensure users with low-end hardware are not presented with an unusable setup. Tested with Plasma 5.7.1 and KF 5.24. Setting the name of 0x262fb40 to “org.kde.ActivityManager.ActivityTemplates” A circle indicates that the button will set that window on all desktops. libkwalletbackend5-5-5.25.0git.20160724T133134~8cf7300-2.2.x86_64, unfortunately, gnupg still doesn’t have a wayland pinentry client (as far as I understand, the Qt-version uses the Xcb plugin in order to place the window properly and take the focus). import QtQuick.Enterprise.VirtualKeyboard 2.0 glamor: EGL version 1.4 (DRI2): My system based on the newest Plasma (5.7.1) and KFrameworks 5.24. Acknowledgement sent to Martin Insulander : New Bug report received and forwarded. If your X server already supports compositing, switching it on is as easy as opening System Settings, opening the Worskpace Appearance and Behaviour module, choosing Desktop Effects and enabling the checkbox Enable desktop effects at startup. Was: 2.99.917-26 ) to install/enable it split into kwin_x11 and kwin_wayland in crashes,... 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