History of Plasma 6 KDE with X11 on Tumbleweed

<p>Next step from ((KDE desktop styling and usability problems)) ... I do need to be able to document each step, and perhaps now is the time to get the bug tracking package for bitweaver working again. I certainly need it for tracking the code development stuff that is simply not appropriate to track using github.</p>

<p>The trigger for making some progress was a post re the font sizes in myrlyn which were being problematic. &quot;You need to log in as root to change the font size as myrlyn runs as root&quot;. Now the first problem with that at one time is that SUSE would actually prevent logging in as root as a &#39;security measure&#39;. An annoyance at time, but then one can use sudo to do most things so should not need to actually log in? It is also irritating that one has to keep typing in the root password when doing a sequence of things that keep asking, where logging in as root would be quicker, and currently that is not a problem. As soon as I logged in I realised that a number of the problems I&#39;d been fighting no longer existed, and then trying a wayland session things were somewhat better. So just how do you clear down all the dross when logged in as the user? With difficulty, so instead I simply created a new user! A clean desktop and initially I avoided using X11 at all at which point wayland&#39;s previous annoyances simply vanished. Perhaps I should create another user which only sees X11 was the next thought, but I applied all of the cribs I&#39;d already documented and got the wayland desktop looking reasonable. STILL a problem with pop-up screens such as message searxh in thunderbird, but many of the niggles that appeared when switching the old user from X11 to a wayland session where fixed. Even the start bar was displaying properly, although I now think this may also be affected by the &#39;theme&#39; being used. I&#39;d stuck with Breeze and of cause non of the other downloaded themes were present as they were in the old user space.</p>

<p>The only think really remaining was the problem of the displayport driven monitor going blank from time to time. The fun with the hardware is documented in the blog although I think some if that may have been unnecessary now I have established ... X11 is stable wayland is not! The new user is now configured to X11 formats and has been stable since I switched over. Toggled back to wayland earlier and the right hand monitor stated blanking and with &#39;display configuration&#39; up you can see it&#39;s mimic going on and off. So something software wise is getting messed up when talking to the hardware which X11 is perfectly happy with. I do wish now I had not &#39;followed the advise&#39; and even tried wayland. I can see a couple of possible plus features, but now I am better in control, I&#39;ve got the same results in X11 which also does not have the problem of small font size on thunderbird search and other pop-up windows.</p>

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