Is Wayland fully intergratable with opensuse ( I'm using 15 RC )

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If yes, is there a guide to ease the integration?
Any assistance is greatly appreciated, ty.

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Do you have a nvidia card?
Because wayland+nvidia=problems.

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Sorry for not including initially.
intel i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz
GM204 GeForce GTX 970
32GB memory

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What do you mean with that?

Wayland is included in Leap 15.0, and both GNOME and KDE/Plasma offer Wayland sessions at the login screen.
For Plasma you need to install the package plasma5-session-wayland though (GNOME’s wayland session should be installed by default I think), and of course you need to use a displaymanager/login screen that actually supports Wayland.
GDM and SDDM do, maybe lightdm as well (I don’t know).

But note that Wayland has still to be considered experimental and work-in-progress.
For KDE/Plasma 5.12, see here for a list of known problems/missing features:
https://community.kde.org/Plasma/5.12_Errata

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Thanks wolfi323
I’ll have a read and play - see how it goes

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PS: as already has been indicated, Wayland is not supported by the proprietary nvidia driver.
See also the 15.0 Release Notes:

**4.1 KDE on Wayland Is Not Supported with Proprietary Nvidia Driver
**

The KDE Plasma Wayland session is not supported with the proprietary Nvidia driver. If you are using KDE and the proprietary Nvidia driver, stay with the X session.

(I’m not sure about GNOME, but I don’t think that supports nvidia either)

You’ll need to stick to nouveau to use Wayland.

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Also see https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Showstoppers for more details about KDE/Plasma “problems”/limitations on Wayland.

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You just choose the Wayland session at GUI login. This works with either GDM or SDDM. It also works for LIGHTDM to start a KDE/Plasma Wayland session, but not to start a Gnome Wayland session. At least that’s my experience with both Tumbleweed and Leap 15.0

Oh, yes, you might have to install the Wayland session package for Gnome and/or Plasma. Just search for “wayland” in Yast Software Management and scan through the small list for the word “session” on the package names.

Beyond that – Gnome Wayland works very well here. Plasma/Wayland is missing some feature, but mostly works if you can do without those. This is with Intel graphics. I understand that there are problems with some graphics cards.