git: 7dbd17a38d01 - main - x11/plasma5-plasma-workspace: add helper script for Plasma Wayland

[Adriaan de Groot]

Hi Jan,

Thanks for your comments. I regard you as the Wayland-in-general expert, and 
I'll be the first to admit that the purpose of this particular script is to 
get KDE Plasma Wayland running *at all*. It's a hammer. Or a nail, depending 
on which way you want to see the metaphor.

Now that I've got it running (at all) I can also prod upstream some more, and 
compare application behavior in sway and in KDE Plasma Wayland.

On Sunday, 2 May 2021 06:40:12 CEST Jan Beich wrote:
> Adriaan de Groot <adridg at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > +export GDK_BACKEND=wayland
> 
> Already default when WAYLAND_DISPLAY is set. Gtk3 apps which directly
> use X11 maybe incompatible with GDK_BACKEND=wayland e.g.,
> 
>   $ pkg install emacs vim

Imma gone admit using neither of them, but it's a good point that in good time 
we'll want a decent experience for everyone. In good time we'll want to be 
able to launch a Wayland session from a display manager, too :S

> > +export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland-egl
> 
> Seems to be default when XDG_SESSION_TYPE == wayland. No clue if
> there're exceptions like in Gtk3 case.

It seems -- from brief testing starting applications from a konsole where I've 
unset QT_QPA_PLATFORM -- that things work **better** with this unset, so 
expect iterations on this script when there's a few more users and we start 
getting things fixed upstream.

[ade]
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