Post by @RootMoose@bsd.cafe
I've given up on #OpenBSD already. Simple install, X works with #twm and #xfce but is a bitch with #plasma . No configurations work even with the kde-plasma hints for .xinitrc and .xsession. Just a grey launch screen with a mouse pointer in middle of the screen. This is in version 7.9 and also 8.0
ulimits, kernel file handlers, locale changes made. nothing works.
Has anyone a working .xinitrc file?
Works perfectly on #FreeBSD 15.1
@gregsie I installed today (8.0). I had to do a sysupgrade -s in order to fix pkg_add can't resolve errors during installing kde.
I also adjusted the .xsession file to create the tmp files outside of /tmp/run [ export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=~/.tmp/run/$(id -u) ]
Now I can login but plasmashell is in a crash loop - working it now. Ctrl+Alt+T opens konsole so that's something, most of the way there I guess.
@gregsie@floss.social
@gregsie I'm out of time to work this today but I'm stuck with the startplasma-x11 stdout/error showing:
QProcess: Cannot create pipe (Too many open files)
Everything falls to crap in the log after this wrt "Failed to register with host portal" -> "Could not register app ID: App info not found" type errors which is either a red herring or useful.
I've got the base config for open files in login.conf and sysctl.conf set to ridiculously large numbers so I don't think it is a ulimit type thing? Or I'm missing something elsewhere.
Maybe turning away from it for a while will help.
@RootMoose I am making some progress with this. Using a terminal I can see that xrandr shows the output is connected but kscreen doctor says it is disabled. I have enabled the output and after 20sec I get a bigger screen. Running plasmashell -replace gives me a full plasma desktop. And it works..just need to find out how to make it permanent.. as it doesn't survive a reboot put process works again. Might tinker with xint. Will post a fuller post later
@gregsie @FritzAdalis Sounds promising!
I'm going to spin up a totally vanilla VM and see what happens.
I probably won't be able to give any deep attention to this till this evening at the earliest (work is a shit show and have a concrete pour for the garden folly in the late afternoon).
Re: QEMU, video is virtio. I think it's what defaults under Alpine, at least I didn't set up anything custom using virt-machine-manager..
@gregsie @FritzAdalis Did a vanilla install with auto fs layout (took 3 attempts - /usr/local needs to be 12+GB to accommodate `pkg_add kde kde-plasma`!)
Still no joy. The errors that remain seem to be related to auth/polkit stuff. That and the kde specific app id unknown/missing errors which _might_ be related to same.
Maybe I'll investigate further tomorrow. Bordering on tiresome now. Ha.