Re: Question: setting up Plasma Wayland session

On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 00:02:34 +0200
Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Evgeniy Khramtsov <2khramtsov@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi.
> >
> > Does anyone run Plasma Wayland session (not nested via e.g. sway)?
> >
> > Are there any how-tos and/or out-of-tree patches to start it?  
> 
> Better ask on kde@ maillist. I'm not aware of anyone (except CheriBSD
> folks) working on Plasma/Wayland but also don't participate in any
> semi-private discussions at various meetings, conferences, etc.
> 
> The first Wayland DE on FreeBSD would probably be one of the minor ones
> like LXQT, XFCE, MATE, Budgie or maybe even Cosmic. The major DEs need
> as "major" time investment but GPL projects make BSD vendors shy away.
> And there aren't many permissively-licensed DEs: Enlightment, Lumina,
> nwg-shell. Of those nwg-shell is probably the easiest to port but
> may still entail more work than any of the minor DEs under GPL.
> 

Something like this might work:

dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland

I'm not sure if the startplasma-wayland command works correctly. Check the KDE docs, you might need to modify some comands:
https://community.kde.org/KWin/Wayland#Start_a_Plasma_session_on_Wayland