dep wrote: > that's um, great but it has nothing to do with what i'm asking the list, > which is whether there's a build of qt5 that doesn't require wayland and > if so, whether that build of qt5 peacefully coexists with tde, because qt5 > is necessary for an application i intend to install. why asking this question here - what does trinity has to do with it? I guess the wayland topic needs to be discussed in devel list, but a friend uses KDE5 with QT5 and wayland and last time I had a look there he said wayland has X11 emulator, where you can run applications that does not support wayland perhaps this is what you want to know