Wayland socket /run/user/1000/wayland-0 doesn't exist

[Kibbles]

I just setup Waydroid using the Arch wiki instructions but when I try to run waydroid session start I get the error

WAYLAND_DISPLAY is not set, defaulting to "wayland-0"
Wayland socket "/run/user/1000/wayland-0" doesn't exist; are you running a Wayland compositor?

I’m using KDE Plasma, which is supposed to be a Wayland compositor, so I’m assuming this should have been generated automatically. I’m not sure what’s causing this or how to even manually generate the socket. I did find another thread here where the solution was to load the uvesafb module but doing

modprobe uvesafb
doesn’t change the result even temporarily for me.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=177123

Sorry if this info isn’t particularly helpful in solving my issue. I’m still inexperienced so I don’t know generally what to look for. However, I’ll try to provide all the information that’s asked for.

[Tomek]

You most likely run X11 session instead Wayland (you can confirm this with echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE). For Wayland with KDE you need install plasma-wayland-session and choose Plasma Wayland in bottom left on login screen.

[Aragorn]

@Kibbles

I’m using KDE Plasma, which is supposed to be a Wayland compositor, so I’m assuming this should have been generated automatically.

Plasma 5 does not use Wayland by default yet. “Out of the box” in Manjaro, Plasma runs on top of X11. You can however run it on top of Wayland by following @Tomek’s instructions.

[Kibbles]

Thanks! Works like a charm!