Is wayland trying to waylay me?

[Don B. Cilly]

Among the last few lines of the last update (just now - neon unstable) I noticed:

Setting up kwin-wayland (4:5.16.2+p18.04+git20190705.0312-0) ...
Setcap worked for /usr/bin/kwin_wayland!
Setting up plasma-workspace-wayland (4:5.16.2+p18.04+git20190705.0339-0) ...

Apt seemed awfully pleased about it
So I thought, aargh, wayland trying to waylay me, I'm being waylaid by wayl... er, no, I got curious.
Even though, should it be allowed to sneak up on us? :·)

So I tried
echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
and it said
x11
which means I'm not using wayland, right?

[acheron]

It's just the kwin-wayland package post install script setting file capabilities on that binary. Done IN CASE you should decide to use a wayland session at some point.

[claydoh]

So........ you have the option to log in with an xorg session or a wayland session in SDDM. Nothing new there. Even being on the dev-unstable branch of neon, as you are, allows for this.

[Don B. Cilly]

Well, I tried using a wayland session at some point. Just now.
Logged out, chose Plasma wayland at login.
Result: total, immediate, and unrecoverable system freeze. :·//

[NoWorries]

Well, I tried using a wayland session at some point. Just now.
Logged out, chose Plasma wayland at login.
Result: total, immediate, and unrecoverable system freeze. :·//

I have had a bit of trial end error with Wayland. I have it working on 19.10 and 19.04. I must say that it works much better on 19.10 than on 19.04. The packages that I have installed using Muon are listed below.



When I was doing the installation I found that I had to remove packages such as kwin-wayland-backend-fdev, libwayland-egl++0, libwayland-egl-backend-dev, libwayland-egl1-mesa.

I hope you are able to make more progress with Wayland and that this list is of some use to you.

[Don B. Cilly]

Well, maybe that's why apt adds exclamations like:
Setcap worked for /usr/bin/kwin_wayland!
When something actually works with it. ;·)

Still, reading a bit here and there (like on really-real-not-fake-at-all-news-about-linux.come.on), wayland is likely to (among other things)
- Make you autistic
- Add chemtrails to your mouse cursor
- Make your earth-globe wallpaper flat
- Introduce greenhouse gases - like neon - into your CPU, thereby catastrophically increasing temperature.

So, rather than be scared, I was trying to be prepared... as I have no issues with my x11 thank you very much :·)

Note: This is not in jest at all, I'm being totally serious, strictly scientific and above all making perfect sense... or something