Plasma Mobile
![]() Plasma Mobile running in QEMU | |
Name | Plasma Mobile |
---|---|
Graphics stack | KWin on Wayland or Xorg |
Toolkit | Qt 5 |
In postmarketOS | |
Package | postmarketos-ui-plasma-mobile |
Status | Available |
Overview
The basic shell has been ported to postmarketOS, and can now be tested.
To install it on your device run ./pmbootstrap.py init
and choose plasma-mobile
in the interface section.
Because compiling the entirety of KDE and Plasma may take a long time, the binary repo provided by the project already contains KDE builds for x86_64, armhf and aarch64. Nothing has to be done to enable it.
For the official KDE instructions on running Plasma Mobile you can use their website: https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Mobile/RunningApps
Packaging efforts have been documented here.
Running
For now Plasma requires a device with (basic) OpenGL support.
After installation, the shell will automatically launch upon boot. If it doesn't, have a look at /etc/profile.d/start_plasma.sh
and /bin/startkwin.sh
.
Debugging
By default Plasma and KWin don't log anything significant or useful for this project. To tell them to, create ~/.config/QtProject/qtlogging.ini
with the following content:
[Rules] org.kde.kwindowsystem.info=true org.kde.kwindowsystem.warning=true org.kde.kwindowsystem.critical=true org.kde.kwindowsystem.debug=true kwin_core.info=true kwin_core.warning=true kwin_core.critical=true kwin_core.debug=true kwineffects.info=true kwineffects.warning=true kwineffects.critical=true kwineffects.debug=true libkwineffects.info=true libkwineffects.warning=true libkwineffects.critical=true libkwineffects.debug=true libkwinglutils.info=true libkwinglutils.warning=true libkwinglutils.critical=true libkwinglutils.debug=true libkwinxrenderutils.info=true libkwinxrenderutils.warning=true libkwinxrenderutils.critical=true libkwinxrenderutils.debug=true kwin_wayland_drm.info=true kwin_wayland_drm.warning=true kwin_wayland_drm.critical=true kwin_wayland_drm.debug=true kwin_wayland_framebuffer.info=true kwin_wayland_framebuffer.warning=true kwin_wayland_framebuffer.critical=true kwin_wayland_framebuffer.debug=true kwin_wayland_hwcomposer.debug=true kwin_wayland_backend.info=true kwin_wayland_backend.warning=true kwin_wayland_backend.critical=true kwin_wayland_backend.debug=true kwin_wayland_x11windowed.info=true kwin_wayland_x11windowed.warning=true kwin_wayland_x11windowed.critical=true kwin_wayland_x11windowed.debug=true kwin_platform_x11_standalone.info=true kwin_platform_x11_standalone.warning=true kwin_platform_x11_standalone.critical=true kwin_platform_x11_standalone.debug=true kwin_libinput.info=true kwin_libinput.warning=true kwin_libinput.critical=true kwin_libinput.debug=true kwin_tabbox.info=true kwin_tabbox.warning=true kwin_tabbox.critical=true kwin_tabbox.debug=true kwin_decorations.info=true kwin_decorations.warning=true kwin_decorations.critical=true kwin_decorations.debug=true kwin_scripting.info=true kwin_scripting.warning=true kwin_scripting.critical=true kwin_scripting.debug=true kwin_xkbcommon.info=true kwin_xkbcommon.warning=true kwin_xkbcommon.critical=true kwin_xkbcommon.debug=true kwin_qpa_plugin.info=true kwin_qpa_plugin.warning=true kwin_qpa_plugin.critical=true kwin_qpa_plugin.debug=true
You can read the log output with logread -f
. Anything related to Plasma and KDE will have a username:plasma-mobile
prefix.