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kde-plasma-6.3.4 – KDE Plasma desktop meta-package (base installation) (cvsweb github mirror)

Description

The KDE Plasma Desktop Environment, base installation.
Contains core KDE Plasma plus:
 * Dolphin - file manager
 * Konsole - terminal emulator
 * Kmix - sound channel mixer and volume control
WWW: https://kde.org

Readme

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
| Running ${PKGSTEM} on OpenBSD
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X11 Startup
===========
KDE Plasma desktop environment is launched through the 'startplasma-x11'
executable. Simply add '${LOCALBASE}/bin/startplasma-x11' to your .xinitrc
or .xsession script if you use startx(1) or xenodm(1), respectively. You can
find an example below. The 'XDG_RUNTIME_DIR' should be present before calling
'startplasma-x11'

export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/tmp/run/$(id -u)
if [ ! -d $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR ]; then
    mkdir -m 700 -p $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
fi

export QT_FORCE_STDERR_LOGGING=1
export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE
export DESKTOP_SESSION=plasma
${LOCALBASE}/bin/startplasma-x11 > ~/.startplasma-x11.log 2>&1

Logging out and shutting down the computer
==========================================
If your user is part of the _shutdown group and thus can execute shutdown(8),
you should be able to shutdown/logout without further configuration.

Otherwise, halting and rebooting from KDE Plasma require consolekit2 and
polkit-kde-agent: you'll need to run a systemwide D-BUS service (# rcctl enable
messagebus) and start with 'startplasma-x11' with
'${LOCALBASE}/bin/ck-launch-session':

${LOCALBASE}/bin/ck-launch-session ${LOCALBASE}/bin/startplasma-x11

If you don't want to use messagebus/polkit-kde-agent, you can still configure
doas(1) to allow your user to run shutdown/halt -p without having to enter a
password, and create a launcher executing 'doas shutdown -p' (or doas halt -p).

Power management
================
If you use KDE Plasma on a laptop, make sure that the powerdevil package
is installed, which will provide battery levels/information, and will
allow to configure actions upon low battery level or AC plugging. For
proper function, it requires messagebus and upowerd running. If using
consolekit2 and polkit-kde-agent, it will also allow you to suspend the
laptop from the logout dialog.

Screen compositor
=================
The KDE compositor may not run properly by default. You can deactivate it
under: "System Setting" -> "Display Configuration" -> "Compositor" or
in `~/.config/kwinrc":

[Compositing]
Enabled=false

It is also possible to use a window manager other than KWin with Plasma.

export KDEWM=${LOCALBASE}/bin/picom

Desktop search
==============
Baloo file indexer is disabled by default on OpenBSD. To enable it go to
"Search" -> "File Search in system settings or execute:

${LOCALBASE}/bin/balooctl enable

Wayland
=======
The KDE Plasma Wayland support is currently experimental and **does not work
out-of-box yet**. You can use the following script to test it:

#! /bin/sh

export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/tmp/run/$(id -u)
if [ ! -d $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR ]; then
    mkdir -m 700 -p $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
fi

# You can try and play with this options:
#export WLR_DRM_DEVICES=/dev/dri/card0
#export LIBSEAT_BACKEND=noop
#export XCURSOR_THEME=redglass
#export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland
#export XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland

${LOCALBASE}/bin/ck-launch-session dbus-run-session \
 ${LOCALBASE}/bin/startplasma-wayland

Known issues
============
- The first start may take a little longer.

Not yet ported Plasma applications/plugins
==========================================
 - aura-browser
 - kpipewire
 - bluedevil
 - breeze-plymouth
 - discover
 - drkonqi
 - flatpak-kcm
 - kwallet-pam
 - plank-player
 - plasma-bigscreen
 - plasma-disks
 - plasma-firewall
 - plasma-integration
 - plasma-mobile
 - plasma-nm
 - plasma-pa
 - plasma-remotecontrollers
 - plasma-systemmonitor
 - plasma-thunderbolt
 - plasma-vault
 - plasma-welcome
 - plymouth-kcm
 - sddm-kcm

Cheat sheet
===========
# Replace plasmashell and kwin
$ plasmashell --replace
$ kwin --replace

Support
=======
Please help to improve this situation and report what works well and what does
not. So that issues are known and a solution can be worked on. Please provide
reports with debugging information:

${LOCALBASE}/bin/qdbus-qt6 org.kde.KWin /KWin supportInformation

You can also output all error/info messages by starting `startplasma-x11` with
the following options and provide a full error log.

export QT_FORCE_STDERR_LOGGING=1
export QT_LOGGING_RULES="*=true"

Maintainer

The OpenBSD ports mailing-list

Multi-packages

kde-25.04.0p0 kde-games-25.04.0 kde-admin-25.04.0 kde-network-25.04.0 kde-pim-25.04.0 kde-accessibility-25.04.0 kde-education-25.04.0 kde-graphics-25.04.0 kde-multimedia-25.04.0 kde-development-25.04.0p0 kde-utils-25.04.0 kde-plasma-6.3.4 kde-plasma-extras-6.3.4

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aarch64 alpha amd64 arm hppa i386 mips64 mips64el powerpc powerpc64 riscv64 sparc64

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