KDE Plasma Wayland and Sway cannot make an X11 backend

[atomic flicker]

whenever i try to start plasma on wayland it just tells me a backend isent specified nand tries to use X11 because DISPLAY is set

and sway it just says it cant make an X11 backend

[astral frost]

why is display set?

if you are setting display manually just stop doing that

[atomic flicker]

i am not setting it manually

but it dosent matter anymore since i just switched to openbox

[astral frost]

I thought you said DISPLAY is set

you presumably either use a display manager like GDM lightdm SDDM or what have you or start it more manually in something like a script or shell profile or whatever

most commonly you have a desktop file that defines available sessions and what gets executed and selected that session with your display manager

display gets set as part of starting X OR is set somewhere in somewhere like your profile or what have you

the only way DISPLAY can be set before X starts is somewhere in a shell config or something like that

you can try searching for the text DISPLAY in /etc or /home/you to find out where its set

You are I'm sure more aware of the particulars of your own configration and can locate the problem if you step through the process and examine the appropriate config files

[atomic flicker]

i dont use a display manager

.bash_profile automatically starts plasma after login

[astral frost]

so /etc/profile.d and your own shell config are your probable culprits