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jupitero

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Registered: 2017-08-10

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System picks xorg instead of wayland at startup ?

I want to use wayland but my system picks Xorg everytime computer starts .. I use gdm as login manager and here is my gdm configuration file

# GDM configuration storage

[daemon]
# Uncoment the line below to force the login screen to use Xorg
WaylandEnable=true

AutomaticLoginEnable=True
AutomaticLogin=tugay
XSession=gnome

[security]

[xdmcp]

[chooser]

[debug]
# Uncomment the line below to turn on debugging
#Enable=true

How to use wayland as default display server?

jasonwryan

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Re: System picks xorg instead of wayland at startup ?

The Wayland backend is used by default and the Xorg backend is used only if the Wayland backend cannot be started.

Remove gdm from the equation and determine why wayland cannot run.

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jupitero

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Registered: 2017-08-10

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Re: System picks xorg instead of wayland at startup ?

When i log off and pick "GNOME" from gear icon Wayland starts with session .. what could be the problem then ?

hfenigma

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Registered: 2017-06-29

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Re: System picks xorg instead of wayland at startup ?

Shouldn't it gnome-wayland instead of gnome?

jupitero

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Registered: 2017-08-10

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Re: System picks xorg instead of wayland at startup ?

Shouldn't it gnome-wayland instead of gnome?

tried it out .. no sucess .. system still using xorg by default

hfenigma

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Re: System picks xorg instead of wayland at startup ?

My bad, gnome defaults to wayland now.
Maybe you can check file /var/lib/AccountsService/users/tugay has XSession=gnome-session, as pointed out in https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comment … tead_of_a/, he just want to do the opposite.

jupitero

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Registered: 2017-08-10

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Re: System picks xorg instead of wayland at startup ?

My bad, gnome defaults to wayland now.
Maybe you can check file /var/lib/AccountsService/users/tugay has XSession=gnome-session, as pointed out in https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comment … tead_of_a/, he just want to do the opposite.

thanks for your help.
but i tried both(gnome-wayland,gnome-session)no success

robg

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Re: System picks xorg instead of wayland at startup ?

jasonwryan has given you good advice in disabling GDM and starting Wayland manually. You can find the relevant instructions here. Follow his advice and report back to us with the exact output you observe. Also, please have a look at this, in particular the "Information to include in your bug report" part; including the journal entries from the last failed attempt to launch wayland (with and without gdm) might (and likely will) also prove useful.

Last edited by robg (2017-08-10 08:56:46)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: System picks xorg instead of wayland at startup ?

Wild guess: What's the output of "lspci"?

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