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xonicman

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Registered: 2016-11-11

Posts: 3

[SOLVED] How to use Xorg backend instead of Wayland after user switch?

Hi,

I'm new to Arch Linux and glad for this forum.

At the beginning I would like to inform that I'm up to date:

[root@muflon ~]# LANG=en_EN date -u
Sat Nov 12 00:06:45 UTC 2016
[root@muflon ~]# LANG=en_EN pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
 there is nothing to do

Problem:
I need to use Xorg backend instead of Wayland backend for gnome.
I found solution (source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GD … g_backend) to uncomment in /etc/gdm/custom.conf line

#WaylandEnable=false

And this works, but only for first user I log in into system.
When I switch to another user than this user uses gdm-wayland-session

What can be done to use Xorg backend also after switching from other user session?

Regards,

Last edited by xonicman (2016-11-16 23:12:42)

phw

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Registered: 2013-05-27

Posts: 318

Re: [SOLVED] How to use Xorg backend instead of Wayland after user switch?

You can select the session type in GDM. There is a gear icon below the login where you can choose between GDM and Wayland, and it will remember the last result.

That configuration you changed in /etc/gdm/custom.conf is just for GDM itself, which is independent from the way Gnome ist started. E.g. I have GDM running per default with Wayland, but I log into Gnome running on X.

xonicman

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Registered: 2016-11-11

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] How to use Xorg backend instead of Wayland after user switch?

Yes! Thank you phw. This is good solution for me! :-)

alphazo

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Registered: 2009-10-20

Posts: 163

Re: [SOLVED] How to use Xorg backend instead of Wayland after user switch?

Arrggh... The "WaylandEnable=false" in /etc/gdm/custom.conf workaround stopped working after today's update (March 4). Lost Guake support when no application window in focus and impossible to revert back to the regular scrolling mode for the touchpad.

Does anynone know another trick to force Xorg on Gnome Shell + GDM?

Thanks

PS: I also use the autologin mode of gdm so I cannot select the Xorg session from the menu.

Thas was quick... Problem fixed after upgrading to gdm 3.22.2.

Last edited by alphazo (2017-03-04 22:17:54)