Private Internet Access Client on KDE 6: Problem & Solution

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Hey all.

Running KDE 6.0.1 on Arch. I’m a PIA user, so installed their desktop client today, only for it to core dump whenever I tried to start it. Looking through the logs, there was a line about kwin_wayland_wrapper: error in client communication - no idea if that was a cause or a symptom, but thought I’d try logging out and logging back in with an X11 session, and now PIA worked fine.

Not really wanting to stay on X11, I logged out & back in with Wayland, and after a bit of googling I tried this:

% cp /usr/share/applications/piavpn.desktop ~/.local/share/applications

% vi ~/.local/share/applications

and changed the line

Exec=/opt/piavpn/bin/pia-client %u

to

Exec=WAYLAND_DISPLAY="" /opt/piavpn/bin/pia-client %u

PIA now runs happily as an XWayland app, and order is restored.

Posting just in case anyone else runs into this problem

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thats actually very helpful, thanks a lot! Just installed kde6 as well and had issues with the pia gui

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You’re a life saver. Thanks so much!

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This worked for me, thank you!