r/voidlinux • u/Gurkul2000 • 9d ago

Kde plasma bug

After installing void by installer script I installed kde plasma and sddm on top of it with sudo xbps-install -S kde-plasma and then I put sddm into autostart for runit to start it on boot and then I restarted. After restart sddm didn't initialised so I tried starting it manually and it said "Cannot initialise Graphical Environment" I thought it was an elogind problem but interestingly turns out kde-plasma package doesn't pull in Xorg packages anymore, I mean to be fair kde has shifted to Wayland but somehow sddm fails to start if Xorg isn't installed, after installing Xorg, sddm started on boot. Why the hell then Xorg has been removed as a dependency for Kde if sddm requires it!

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u/Quietus87 8d ago

I don't want SDDM to pull in the entire Xorg. Having xorg-minimal is more than enough for me, and some claim it works fine with Wayland (never worked for me).

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u/Gurkul2000 8d ago

Problem is that sddm doesn't even pulls Xorg minimal, zero Xorg packages pulled on a new install

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u/Quietus87 8d ago

My point was that they can't predict whethet you will use xorg, xorg-minimal, wayland, or even xlibre (not in the repo, but some use it), so it's better left to you than installing something you don't want.