Kwin_wayland with BUILD_X11=OFF stops populating taskbar with open windows

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I compiled kwin_wayland witout X11 support (BUILD_X11=off BUILD_EIS=off). It compiled. I am running it now, but it does not populate the taskbar with open windows strangely. Plasmashell is also running at rather high CPU cycles, so I’m thinking maybe that’s part of the problem too.

Is there something specific that needs to change about KDE setup on a purely wayland compositor to make sure open windows are accounted for correctly? Everything else seems to work as expected.

This is on FreeBSD 14.4, KDE 6.6.4.

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Ok, the mistake was that you have to pass some KDE specific environment variables before launching kwin_wayland - not after it. When I moved my env variables before kwin_wayland launch, everything started working properly - the taskbar is populated, the plasmashell & kwin_wayland CPU usage is nominal. :1st_place_medal: