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Plasma Wayland no task bar (task manager) and no terminal (Konsole) (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 1 month ago by Ladripper@lemmy.kde.social to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

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Hi, I recently had trouble getting Wayland to work, so I was on X11. No w I finally managed to have it autodetect the resolution and not mirror the screen to my second monitor. However, now my PC is extremelly laggy (stutter every ~2 seconds, even the cursor) and I don't have a task bar. Right-clicking on the desktop doesn't do anything and pressing CTRL+ALT+T does make a small Konsole logo jump up and down on the cursor, nothing actually opens up. Moving the mouse into the top left corner does trigger the view of desktops (this post was written while I am currently in this wayland session).

Since I have an nvidia gpu (specifically a 30xx series) I followed the Archwiki, specifically under "Wayland" I set the environment variables under Requirements and then enabled the drm kernel mode setting in /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf and confiormed after a restart that the modeset was in fact 1 via the command under DRM kernel mode setting in the NVIDIA article.

After that I added the rest of the early loading stuff and regenerated the initramfs and rebooted, which is where I am now. I can't find any more info on what to do and would appreciate all help.

(This is a copy-paste from my post on redit)

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[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So, after enabling the proprietary NVIDIA drivers, now some Wayland apps and surfaces are not showing up anymore?

[–] Ladripper@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, this was all done in preparation to actually use wayland, I've been using X11. Before now, all I had was a bad resolution and monitors being mirrored/duplicated. There was also no task bar/manager and no background, but I did have the konsole srangely. Other than that it was the same

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So you have these issues still on X11? Did you try starting the wayland session?

Did you try a second user profile?

[–] Ladripper@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 1 month ago

I don't have these issues on X11, I'm using that right now. I only have these issues on wayland. I have not tried a second user profile, but I'll try to create one now

[–] Ladripper@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've just created a new user and trying to launch into a wayland session gave no output at all to either of my monitors (login screen was fine, so was X11 on the new user)

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

I cant really help you as I have no NVIDIA GPU but please add that info to the main post. Or... make a new one with a clearer description, as it will show up for more people.