[LDWG] running KDE6 on WAYLAND for 16-current and 15-stable

HI,

  Alice  asked me  to look into starting  Wayland/KDE6/Plasma6 on  
Nvidia GPU  on  FreeBSD  15.

  I have now tried KDE6-Plasma6-Wayland on Freebsd15-stable with NVIDIA 
GPU RTX4000-ADA, that i upgraded yesterday 2026-01-28 with latest  
stable 15 src tree and latest /usr/ports/  tree.

I decided to use the same approach that I used on 16-current , to 
include "WAYLAND" in the /etc/make.conf OPTIONS_SET_FORCE list.
This builds the KDE6_Plasma6 binaries with usable WAYLAND environment 
when doing a manual build of
x11/xorg, x11/gnome, x11/kde x11/kde-gear, graphics/nvidia_drm_kmod 
sysutils/seatd . WAYLAND parts is buildt as a biproduct.
( the NVIDIA setup is the standard documented setup from the handbook )
Previously I had not FORCED SET wayland form the /etc/make.conf on this 
workstation.


and
export WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS=1
export KWIN_FORCE_SW_CURSOR=1
in $HOME/.profile

to address the non showing cursor.

I now believe that the reason for difficulties of setting up wayland 
with KDE6_Plasma6 and Nvidia GPU is because
some binary packages in the repos are built without the Wayland options.

I now have the following compiled ports with a configured option of 
WAYLAND .
( list below extracted  from  /var/db/ports   options  lists )


devel_sdl20
devel_sdl3
graphics_gstreamer1-plugins-gl
graphics_mesa-dri
graphics_mesa-libs
graphics_plasma6-spectacle
graphics_vulkan-loader
graphics_vulkan-tools
multimedia_gstreamer1-vaapi
multimedia_libva
multimedia_libxine
multimedia_mpv
multimedia_vlc
net_freerdp3
sysutils_gnome-control-center
sysutils_gnome-settings-daemon
textproc_ibus
www_webkit2-gtk
x11-toolkits_gtk30
x11-toolkits_gtk40
x11-wm_mutter
x11_libxkbcommon

I believe it  should be  ensured  that  Wayland compile-time option  is  
included  when  building the  binary  Repo packages.
This makes wayland start on NVIDIA KDE6 Plasma6 for both Freebsd 15 and 16.


using

$ exec dbus-launch ck-launch-session startplasma-wayland

Regards

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Lars Tunkrans
Oracle SPARC/Solaris System Administrator
Fujitsu M12 SPARC Specilaist