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Moo-Crumpus

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From: Hessen / Germany

Registered: 2003-12-01

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Ups - Black screened Gnome Session after playing with Gnome Wayland

I was curious about gnome wayland, and just tried it by selection in gdm, with xorg-server-xwayland installed. It felt warm, spicy, and showed minor glitches and some bleeding edges. To my surprise, when I logged out, and went back to Gnome (without wayland), the gnome session starts up just to see the mouse pinter vanishing in front of a pure, black monitor while the hard drive led shows heavy activity. I went away to have a cup of coffee. Coming back, the hard drive was sleeping, and the monitor was still black. Ctrl - Alt - F2 gave me a console, but no idea what to do, so I decided to go for a reboot, and noticed I still could run Gnome Wayland, but no more Gnome.

Finally, I gave up on finding out what really happened. I guess something in the gnome configurations was messed up with wayland and non-wayland. Adding a new user and starting a new Gnome session showed me the problem was related to my user account. So I purged my .config-gnome-related files and folders, and things are behaving well again.

Therefore, I take this as a proof: running Gnome Wayland will change parts of your configuration, and be warned, Gnome might not be able to turn them back again.

Last edited by Moo-Crumpus (2014-10-27 14:00:28)

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