Running Apps

This document describes how to run and debug applications on the device.

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