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maslascher

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Registered: 2013-10-15

Posts: 52

Wayland backend per user for Gnome Shell?

Hello, I've been trying to set environment variable with Wayland backend for Gnome Shell on Wayland but this per user just doesn't work.
I tried to put:
export GDK_BACKEND=wayland
export CLUTTER_BACKEND=wayland
to files like .profile and .bashrc but Gnome Shell doesn't tolerate these two. Without Wayland backend everything just run in XWayland "mode".
Weston tolerate this backends but it is highly "underfetaured" and sometimes it's just crash (some breakpoint trap).
Any response appreciated.

Amphitryon

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Registered: 2013-09-20

Posts: 41

Re: Wayland backend per user for Gnome Shell?

I have had a brief look and I think there may be a way in to add/change things via .desktop files.  It looks like whenever gnome loads a .desktop type file it should look in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME home which, by default, would be $HOME/.config first before loading it from one of the standard system directories.  The standard session definitions are desktop files (though with a .session extension) so putting a copy on $HOME/.config should enable user specific reconfiguration.