Enable Wayland on GNOME/KDE

tobiasBora · February 7, 2024, 12:16am

Maybe a stupid question, but did you check “Wayland” before starting the session? (bottom left on the screen when you type your password) I have not done anything to install KDE with wayland and I have both options wayland + x11 available at startup. Note that KDE used to suffer from some bugs in Wayland, not sure what is the current status as suggested in:

github.com

NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/9f2ee8c91ac42da3ae6c6a1d21555f283458247e/nixos/modules/services/x11/desktop-managers/plasma5.nix#L410


      
              # Enable the Plasma 5 Desktop Environment.
              services.xserver.displayManager.sddm.enable = true;
              services.xserver.desktopManager.plasma5.enable = true;
            ''
          ];
          
          
services.xserver.displayManager.sessionPackages = [ pkgs.libsForQt5.plasma5.plasma-workspace ];
          # Default to be `plasma` (X11) instead of `plasmawayland`, since plasma wayland currently has
          # many tiny bugs.
          # See: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/143272
          services.xserver.displayManager.defaultSession = mkDefault "plasma";
          
          
environment.systemPackages =
            with libsForQt5;
            with plasma5; with kdeGear; with kdeFrameworks;
            let
              requiredPackages = [
                ksystemstats
                kinfocenter
                kmenuedit
                plasma-systemmonitor