Bug 502870 - not working (Could not activate remote peer)
Summary: not working (Could not activate remote peer)
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: Spectacle
Classification: Applications
Component: General (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.3.4
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR major
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Noah Davis
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2025-04-16 05:34 UTC by vladazaharova2018
Modified: 2025-05-07 19:42 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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2025-04-22 08:54 UTC, vladazaharova2018 		Details
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Description vladazaharova2018 2025-04-16 05:34:57 UTC 
Spectacle refuses to launch under Plasma 6 + Wayland with the error:

    "Для работы этого приложения в графическом окружении Wayland необходим компоновщик рабочего стола KWin. Данное приложение предназначено только для работы в окружении рабочего стола Plasma."

This happens despite:

    Running a full Plasma 6 session

    Using KWin as the Wayland compositor (kwin_wayland confirmed via ps)

    All required environment variables set:
    XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE, KDE_FULL_SESSION=true, XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland, etc.

    Running from konsole as a regular user

Launching with additional environment override does not help:

env XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE KDE_FULL_SESSION=true QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland spectacle

It still refuses to start and outputs the same error.
Steps to Reproduce:

    Start a Wayland session with Plasma 6 (KDE 6.3.4)
    Confirm kwin_wayland is running
    Run spectacle from terminal
    Observe error about missing KWin

Expected Result:
Spectacle should recognize the active Plasma + Wayland + KWin session and launch normally.

Actual Result:
It refuses to launch, misidentifying the session as unsupported.
OS: CachyOS x86_64
Kernel: Linux 6.14.2-2-cachyos
kde framewotks: 6.12.0
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2025-04-16 15:58:40 UTC 
Is this some kind of manually set up system? Generally specifying environment variables manually shouldn't be required.
Comment 2 John Kizer 2025-04-20 21:15:33 UTC 
Updating the status since this is pending a reply from the reporter. Thanks!
Comment 3 vladazaharova2018 2025-04-22 08:40:36 UTC 
this will help me:
cp ~/.config/kwinrc ~/.config/kwinrc.bak
rm ~/.config/kwinrc
kwin_wayland --replace &
Comment 4 vladazaharova2018 2025-04-22 08:54:16 UTC 
Created attachment 180516 [details]
old config

maybe because of:
[Compositing]
Enabled=false
Comment 5 Bug Janitor Service 2025-05-07 03:47:02 UTC 
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Comment 6 TraceyC 2025-05-07 19:42:41 UTC 
Fixing status