Is kde plasma still supported?

[springzfx]

x11docker/plasma is not found on docker hub.

[mviereck]

In general KDE should still work. The image x11docker/plasma has been pulled only few times, but caused a lot of work in maintaing, so I decided to drop it.

There is an image kdeneon/plasma that should work.

[springzfx]

I tried kdeneon/plasma , but it ends to black screen after showing kde logo. Any idea why?

[mviereck]

I did some tests, too.

I could reproduce an all black screen with --nxagent, I'll investigate. It works with --xephyr, --weston-xwayland and --xorg.

Please install e.g. Xephyr and try again. If you still have issues, please provide the logfile ~/.cache/x11docker/x11docker.log at www.pastebin.com .

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kdeneon/plasma has an annoying bluez issue that did not get fixed since years: The bluetooth service fails to start and automatically restarts without a delay. That causes high CPU usage for no good reason. https://github.com/jriddell/kdeneon-docker/issues/1 It gives repeating error messages:

bluedevil: ObexManager operational changed false
bluedevil: ObexManager operational changed false
bluedevil: ObexManager operational changed false
bluedevil: ObexManager operational changed false
bluedevil: ObexManager operational changed false

You can avoid this issue with --init=systemd. Example:

x11docker --desktop --init=systemd -- kdeneon/plasma:user-lts

kdeneon/plasma:latest fails with other issues.

[springzfx]

oh, yeah, it works. Thanks.

[mviereck]

oh, yeah, it works. Thanks.

Good. :) You might also want option --gpu to accelerate the desktop effects.
That would need weston and Xwayland.

[mviereck]

I've created a new x11docker/plasma Dockerfile:

FROM debian:buster

ENV LANG=en_US.UTF-8
RUN apt-get update && \
    env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
      locales && \
    echo "$LANG UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.gen && \
    locale-gen && \
    env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
      kwin-x11 \
      plasma-desktop \
      plasma-workspace && \
    apt-get remove -y bluedevil && \
    apt-get autoremove -y

# Dirty fix to avoid kdeinit error. Did not find a proper solution.
RUN sed -i 's/.*kdeinit/###&/' /usr/bin/startkde

RUN env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
      konsole \
      kwrite \
      libcups2 \
      libpulse0 \
      procps \
      psmisc \
      sudo \
      synaptic \
      systemsettings

CMD startkde

It does not have the issues of kdeneon/plasma and is much smaller (about 1.2 GB compared to 2.5 GB). It contains a dirty fix to avoid a startup failure with kdeinit5.

[mviereck]

I have created a new KDE Plasma repository: https://github.com/mviereck/dockerfile-x11docker-kde-plasma Image on Docker hub: https://cloud.docker.com/repository/docker/x11docker/kde-plasma

It does not have the issues of kdeneon/plasma and additionally supports Wayland setups.