Amarok was KDE’s flagship music player during the KDE3 and Plasma 4 days. For Plasma 5, a new music player called Elisa was created with Kirigami which is the current KDE flagship music player. The last full release of Amarok was 2.9.0 in 2018, still targeting Qt4. A Plasma 5 port was started with the intention of being...
Hello folks! I’ve been having this issue seen in the screenshot. I get this Wayland window and krunner and other things run in there. After a time I even get the login screen inside the wayland window. If I close it I lose krunner, alt-tab, and other keyboard shortcuts....
Thanks!
I grepped for kwin_wayland in ~/ and found a systemd override that was there to make the emacs daemon launch after plasma-kwin_wayland.service. I guess I had issues with the daemon not starting properly while I was trying to use Wayland. I removed the override and it fixed everything!
Tl:dr: self-caused misconfiguration, but I didn’t find it without your help! Thanks!
Yeah I tried Wayland like a few weeks ago and got the undefined variables I mentioned. Without those the vast majority of apps like Firefox, Steam, etc don’t work…
But since you mentioned it I did give it another go just now and it’s up and running fine, the variables are there:
echo $DISPLAY; echo $WAYLAND_DISPLAY
:1
wayland-0
But this has been on again off again so it might stop working at some point. Only time will tell :)
Amarok might be coming back in 2024
Amarok was KDE’s flagship music player during the KDE3 and Plasma 4 days. For Plasma 5, a new music player called Elisa was created with Kirigami which is the current KDE flagship music player. The last full release of Amarok was 2.9.0 in 2018, still targeting Qt4. A Plasma 5 port was started with the intention of being...
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Hello folks! I’ve been having this issue seen in the screenshot. I get this Wayland window and krunner and other things run in there. After a time I even get the login screen inside the wayland window. If I close it I lose krunner, alt-tab, and other keyboard shortcuts....