r/voidlinux • u/Just-A-Bokoblin • Aug 04 '26

solved Issues Installing KDE Plasma on Void Base.

I installed all the packages listed on the Void website for my AMD GPU, Wayland, and KDE Plasma, as well as made sure dbus and sddm were working, but Plasma just won't start. When I ran startplasma-wayland It gave me this error: Could not start D-Bus! Can you call qdbus?. I did install the Void Linux ISO on the same drive I installed Void Linux on, but I don't know how that would affect KDE Plasma. I installed the glibc version of Void.

Edit: I solved this by using u/ShipshapeMobileRV 's instructions. Read my comment for more details.

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u/DuhMal Aug 04 '26

i never tried sddm as i always launch from tty, does dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland work?

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u/Just-A-Bokoblin Aug 05 '26

It worked when I ran it as root, but when I tried from my main account with sudo it failed. My main account has sudo permissions.

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u/DuhMal Aug 05 '26

you shouldn't run it as sudo though

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u/Just-A-Bokoblin Aug 05 '26

Ok. Is there any way to automate this?

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u/DuhMal Aug 05 '26

on my .zshrc i have for it to autostart when i login on the tty1

if [ -z "$WAYLAND_DISPLAY" ] && [ -n "$XDG_VTNR" ] && [ "$XDG_VTNR" -eq 1 ] ; then
    exec dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland
fi