Hi all and thanks for the work put into Kalpa!
Just wanted to note down some experiences of installing and booting Kalpa for the first time.
- Install, including encryption and using systemd-boot went great
- Apart from having to disable display-manager and enabling sddm manually first boot went good
Stuff that didn’t work out of the box:
sddm. sddm seems locked to the US keyboard layout (and there’s no dropdown to change or display the current layout), but my password contains special characters which are in a different place on my usual layout. Logging in via a virtual terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F4 etc) worked fine. After having logged in using sddm, the lockscreen itself works with the correct layout and everything in plasma uses the correct layout. localectl tells me I only use the layout I’m intending to use.
Configuring sddm to start in x11 mode made it use the correct keyboard layout.
During problem solving I also installed package variants of sddm with kalpa in the package name, but I guess those aren’t intended to be used?
X11 vs Wayland. I tried installing the x11 plasma session package, and now I have three identical plasma x11 choices in sddm and one of them works. While in the x11 session, mapping the caps-lock key to escape does not work, but it does in wayland. This may be an issue with plasma though, I assume.
Distrobox + app icons. When exporting apps through distrobox (tried 3 so far) the icon shown in the task manager is the Wayland or opensuse placeholder icon. Googling a bit I came across tips involving the hostname in the distrobox/pod, but that already seems identical to my “real” hostname. I also tried forcing the “desktop file name” to the name of the desktop file created under ./local/... without the extension, but that hasn’t helped.
Edit: I checked the desktop file under ./local/share/applications and it seemed to have the opensuse icon hardcoded. In the case of kitty, changing that to simply kitty like the real .desktop file uses made kitty have the correct icon in the task manager 
And I can’t reproduce it for another app I had issues with, after recreating the box and re-exporting the app…
Anyways, thanks again for the work put into Kalpa!