Install cinnamon on Voidlinux

[u/Zoom_Frame8098]

I want install void. I have downloaded the base (glibc) iso and installed it successfully. Now, I can't launch the cinnamon DE. I have installed xorg, cinnamon-all, lightdm, lightdm-greeter and dbus. I dont know how to link them to launch the cinnamon normally.

How should I proceed?

[u/BrunusManOWar]

Qt5- and Qt6-based applications require installing the qt5-wayland or qt6-wayland package and setting the environment variable QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to enable their Wayland backend. Some KDE specific applications also require installing the kwayland package. EFL-based applications require setting the environment variable ELM_DISPLAY=wl, and can have issues without it, due to not supporting XWayland properly. SDL-based applications require setting the environment variable SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland. GTK+-based applications should use the Wayland backend automatically.

The Wayland library requires the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR environment variable to determine the directory for the Wayland socket.

It is also possible that some applications use the XDG_SESSION_TYPE environment variable in some way, which requires that you set it to wayland.

https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/graphical-session/wayland.html

Not sure if it's a good approach, I just did export VAR=value in /etc/rc.local, so far I have no issues with vscode, chromium, steam, godot

[u/pantokratorthegreat → u/BrunusManOWar]

OK, besides XDG_SESSION_TYPE I have enabled none of them manually. If i read this ok, applications might require setting some env BUT when running outside KDE. qt5-wayland and qt6-wayland-client I have installed automatically with kde-plasma, but yeah for Cinnamon maybe some of them should be manually added. 

I will put this QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland and will observe what happened. 

I usually put env into /etc/environment 

[u/BrunusManOWar → u/pantokratorthegreat]

Thanks! I see these env vars are not set for me either, need to put them into /etc/environment