Running Apps

This document describes the necessary environment variables and steps for running and debugging applications in Plasma Mobile.

It is not necessary for end-users to set these. With a recent Plasma Mobile image, apps can be run from the drawer easily, however this may be useful for prospective devs working in different environments where this is not already set.

Environment Setup

In order to run applications on the device, you need to set up a few environment variables:

export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland
export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=KDE
export QT_WAYLAND_DISABLE_WINDOWDECORATION=1
export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE
export KSCREEN_BACKEND=QScreen

export KDE_FULL_SESSION=1
export KDE_SESSION_VERSION=5

Manually starting the Plasma shell (or applications)

If you want to run the Plasma phone shell, do

export $(dbus-launch)
exec /usr/bin/plasmashell -p org.kde.plasma.phone

If kded5 has crashed, you may have to start it manually:

/usr/bin/kded5 &

Debugging Applications

installation of debug packages and gdb