Tag: Plasma 5

Plasma 5 and kdbus testing

Thanks to Mike Pagano who enabled kdbus support in Gentoo kernel sources almost 2 weeks ago. Which gives us the choice to test it. As described in Mikes blog post you will need to enable the use flags kdbus and experimental on sys-kernel/gentoo-sources and kdbus on sys-apps/systemd.

root # echo "sys-kernel/gentoo-sources kdbus experimental" >> /etc/portage/package.use/kdbus

If you are running >=sys-apps/systemd-221 kdbus is already enabled by default otherwise you have to enable it.

root # echo "sys-apps/systemd kdbus" >> /etc/portage/package.use/kdbus

Any packages affected by the change need to be rebuilt.

root # emerge -avuND @world

Enable kdbus option in kernel.

General setup --->
<*> kdbus interprocess communication

Build the kernel, install it and reboot. Now we can check if kdbus is enabled properly. systemd should automatically mask dbus.service and start systemd-bus-proxyd.service instead (Thanks to eliasp for the info).

root # systemctl status dbus
● dbus.service
Loaded: masked (/dev/null)
Active: inactive (dead)


root # systemctl status systemd-bus-proxyd
● systemd-bus-proxyd.service - Legacy D-Bus Protocol Compatibility Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib64/systemd/system/systemd-bus-proxyd.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Fr 2015-07-10 22:42:16 CEST; 16min ago
Main PID: 317 (systemd-bus-pro)
CGroup: /system.slice/systemd-bus-proxyd.service
└─317 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-bus-proxyd --address=kernel:path=/sys/fs/kdbus/0-system/bus

Plasma 5 starts fine here using sddm as login manager. On Plasma 4 you may be interested in Bug #553460.

Looking forward when Plasma 5 will get user session support.

Have fun!

KDE Plasma 5.3.1 testing

After several month of packaging in kde overlay and almost a month in tree, we have lifted the mask for KDE Plasma 5.3.1 today. If you want to test it out, now some infos how to get it.

For easy transition we provide two new profiles, one for OpenRC and the other for systemd.

root # eselect profile list
...
[8] default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/plasma
[9] default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/plasma/systemd
...

Following example activates the Plasma systemd profile:

root # eselect profile set 9

On stable systems you need to unmask the qt5 use flag:

root # echo "-qt5" >> /etc/portage/profile/use.stable.mask

Any packages affected by the profile change need to be rebuilt:

root # emerge -avuND @world

For stable users, you also need to keyword the required packages. You can let portage handle it with autokeyword feature or just grep the keyword files for KDE Frameworks 5.11 and KDE Plasma 5.3.1 from kde overlay.

Now just install it (this is full Plasma 5, the basic desktop would be kde-plasma/plasma-desktop):

root # emerge -av kde-plasma/plasma-meta

KDM is not supported for Plasma 5 anymore, so if you have installed it kill it with fire. Possible and tested login managers are SDDM and LightDM.

For detailed instructions read the full upgrade guide. Package bugs can be filed to bugs.gentoo.org and about the software to bugs.kde.org.

Have fun,
the Gentoo KDE Team