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smirky

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From: Bulgaria

Registered: 2013-02-23

Posts: 277

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Plasma 5 and kwin_wayland

I'd like to get some facts clear with the help of the community, so I hope you don't eat me alive for asking this. I managed to make the transition from KDE4 to Plasma 5.2, which was a painful process, but that's nobody's fault, since this is pretty much new and buggy desktop environment. There's been a lot of talk about Wayland recently and Plasma 5 being able to launch under it. I'm aware of the kwin_wayland binary, except that I don't know how to launch it. What I've tried so far is this (thanks to google of course...):

$ kwin_wayland

$ kwin_wayland --x-server=xwayland --display=:0

I tried passing $DISPLAY and a few other env variables, but none of them gave result. I keep getting:

QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display
Aborted (core dumped)

If someone managed to launch kwin_wayland, please, share with the rest of us.

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exaos

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Registered: 2012-03-18

Posts: 17

Re: Plasma 5 and kwin_wayland

Accordding to this page ( https://community.kde.org/KWin/Wayland ),  full support kwin_wayland will be implemented in plasma 5.4.