starting bigscreen kactivitymanagerd not running
After building bigscreen & dependencies from source I run QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland dbus-run-session kwin_wayland "plasmashell -p org.kde.plasma.mycroft.bigscreen"
as shown in the Readme and while this does create a new window with a mouse cursor (and sometimes I've even had highlighted hot corners!) the screen stays black. In konsole I get the following:
dbus-daemon[3432]: [session uid=1000 pid=3432] Activating service name='org.kde.ActivityManager' requested by ':1.1' (uid=1000 pid=3441 comm="/usr/bin/plasmashell -p org.kde.plasma.mycroft.big" label="unconfined")
Aborting shell load: The activity manager daemon (kactivitymanagerd) is not running.
If this Plasma has been installed into a custom prefix, verify that its D-Bus services dir is known to the system for the daemon to be activatable.
starting invalid corona "org.kde.plasma.mycroft.bigscreen"
dbus-daemon[3432]: [session uid=1000 pid=3432] Successfully activated service 'org.kde.ActivityManager'
So it seems it's trying to start ActivityManager, but not waiting for it to be started before trying to move on? But what does "starting invalid corona" mean? (This is also the only error I get when trying to plasmashell --replace -p org.kde.plasma.mycroft.bigscreen
instead of running in a window) Googling this is absolutely impossible thanks to a certain pandemic.
I've run it both from an X11 host session as well as a Wayland host session (the log comes from the latter) and the result is always the same. The issue may actually lie with plasma-nano as running that using the same command as provided here just with org.kde.plasma.nano
instead of org.kde.plasma.mycroft.bigscreen
also yields the same error, but considering they provide different instructions for starting the shell I guess it's more relevant for here
I'm running on an Intel Atom (in an UP-Board) on the newest KDE Neon image (downloaded just 2 days ago) - the Atom line does sometimes tend to do weird things to software but in the end it's x86 so mostly it should be fine. For completeness sake, here is the entire console output, including all the stuff that seemingly went right before the error:
Full log
QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland dbus-run-session kwin_wayland "plasmashell -p org.kde.plasma.mycroft.bigscreen"
No backend specified through command line argument, trying auto resolution
unable to lock lockfile /run/user/1000/wayland-0.lock, maybe another compositor is running
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose:5127:46: this compose sequence is a duplicate of another; skipping line
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose:5129:48: this compose sequence is a duplicate of another; skipping line
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose:5131:48: this compose sequence is a duplicate of another; skipping line
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose:5135:47: this compose sequence is a duplicate of another; skipping line
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose:5137:46: this compose sequence is a duplicate of another; skipping line
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose:5145:48: this compose sequence is a duplicate of another; skipping line
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose:5149:46: this compose sequence is a duplicate of another; skipping line
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose:5151:46: this compose sequence is a duplicate of another; skipping line
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose:5155:45: this compose sequence is a duplicate of another; skipping line
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose:5158:46: this compose sequence is a duplicate of another; skipping line
kwin_core: Failed to update gamma ramp for output KWin::Wayland::WaylandOutput(0x7f8ff400b5c0, name="WL-0", geometry=QRect(0,0 1024x768), scale=1)
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) HD Graphics (CHV)
OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 21.2.6
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.60
Driver: Intel
GPU class: Cherryview
OpenGL version: 4.6
GLSL version: 4.60
Mesa version: 21.2.6
Linux kernel version: 5.13
Requires strict binding: no
GLSL shaders: yes
Texture NPOT support: yes
Virtual Machine: no
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: inet:224:50: unrecognized keysym "XF86FullScreen"
dbus-daemon[3432]: [session uid=1000 pid=3432] Activating service name='org.kde.ActivityManager' requested by ':1.1' (uid=1000 pid=3441 comm="/usr/bin/plasmashell -p org.kde.plasma.mycroft.big" label="unconfined")
Aborting shell load: The activity manager daemon (kactivitymanagerd) is not running.
If this Plasma has been installed into a custom prefix, verify that its D-Bus services dir is known to the system for the daemon to be activatable.
starting invalid corona "org.kde.plasma.mycroft.bigscreen"
dbus-daemon[3432]: [session uid=1000 pid=3432] Successfully activated service 'org.kde.ActivityManager
Edit: After rebuilding Plasma Nano I managed to get it to run "properly" (at least it showed me date and time and a wallpaper, even though it's not really responding to any of my inputs), Plasma Bigscreen still has the same issues though. Difference here: I built Plasma Nano with the provided instructions from another issue instead of kdesrc-build.