Wayland issue Enlightenment DE (also LXQT)

Issues & Assistance
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Hello,

Enlightenment DE on X11 works just fine, however, I now experience an issue similar to the KDE based one of tonight.

Updating kwin, as another entry here made me, didn’t fix the issue.

When I enter Enlightenment Wayland, the startup sound is played. I briefly see Enlightenments grey background and also the mouse cursor, however, then the screen turns black, and after that, both of my monitors even turn off.

With LXQT, after having installed the necessary packages, I can select Wayland in the drop down menu on the login screen. However, this only results in a 3 second wait until the prompt to choose a session reappears.

I have a Ryzen 7600x/ RX5700XT.

Best, J

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LXQT wayland depends on an external compositor, the default is labwc IIRC. Do you have that installed?

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Hey,

i think it was the git clone found here I used, including labwc.

I am unwilling to check it again though, because I disdain lxqt.

With enlightenment, its most likely a general arch issue. I dont understand the wiki on it, though. Its not specified which file affects the environment. I dont even know if enlightenment wayland depends on opengl.

Search for “wayland” on this page. Enlightenment - ArchWiki

Best, J

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how would i upload a log file which is created at the failed enlightenment boot, in case anyone wants or can help me?

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Maybe one can download it from here: Making sure you're not a bot!

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Enlightenment hasn’t played well with Wayland (though I haven’t tried it in one or two minor releases back) in the past. It’s frankly, WONKY.

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wdym by wonky? I wouldn’t mind minor issues. And do you happen to remember what you needed to do to make it run at all? :slight_smile:

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Wonky(for me)=erratic
Nothing…it ran..just wasn’t suitable.

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A developer replied in the enlightenment forum that its actually broken with the latest mesa. He or she said it will stay like that for now.

10

Back in the day, Carsten would have been all over that.

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its only one guy?

its incredible how fast e in general is, its sad it doesnt work

just went from kde to gnome as it a smoother experience

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He was the original, I think he’s more focused on other things these days.

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its understandable. nobody is a robot. I dream of a world where linux is a public priority. Or any other non-uncomfortable OS.