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Unline

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Registered: 2017-08-23

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change gnome window manager to xorg

hi
i had a fresh install of arch and i've figured gnome 's windows manager changed to wayland which i dont want to be
so i had a lot of research and googling and i found solution
(because i need to install nvidia driver  i have to change login gdm to use xorg as well )
so  as i understand i need to uncomment

WaylandEnable=false

from the file :

/etc/gdm/custom.conf

and  i got the following error in

jourrnalctl -e -u dgm

Child process -7562 was already dead.
Child process 7552 was already dead.
Unable to kill session worker process
GLib: g_variant_new_string: assertion 'string != NULL' failed
Child process -7576 was already dead.
 Child process 7566 was already dead.
 Unable to kill session worker process
GLib: g_variant_new_string: assertion 'string != NULL' failed
Child process -7590 was already dead.
Child process 7580 was already dead.
 Unable to kill session worker process
GLib: g_variant_new_string: assertion 'string != NULL' failed
Could not start command '/usr/lib/gdm/gdm-session-worker': Too many open files
GLib: g_child_watch_add_full: assertion 'pid > 0' failed
Child process -7604 was already dead.
Child process 7594 was already dead.
Unable to kill session worker process

and i cant downgrade something because thats fresh install
ill be happy if anyone have solution for it

Last edited by Unline (2017-10-31 15:12:04)

Unline

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Registered: 2017-08-23

Posts: 12

Re: change gnome window manager to xorg

adding

DefaultSession=gnome-xorg.desktop

in custom.conf file doesnt helping as well

lo1

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Registered: 2017-09-25

Posts: 584

Re: change gnome window manager to xorg

Can you please post your /etc/gdm/custom.conf?  My gut's saying me something...

EDIT: and please confirm you read this and that you didn't miss this as well.

Last edited by lo1 (2017-10-31 15:57:42)

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Unline

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Registered: 2017-08-23

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Re: change gnome window manager to xorg

Can you please post your /etc/gdm/custom.conf?  My gut's saying me something...

# GDM configuration storage

[daemon]
# Uncoment the line below to force the login screen to use Xorg
WaylandEnable=false
DefaultSession=gnome-xorg.desktop
[security]

[xdmcp]

[chooser]

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

lo1

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Registered: 2017-09-25

Posts: 584

Re: change gnome window manager to xorg

Oh god kill me please https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=231381 is this what we're talking about?

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Re: change gnome window manager to xorg

Oh god kill me please https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=231381 is this what we're talking about?

yes it is
actually i had problem with nvidia but i prefered to find the exact problem first 
so i digged in and  tried so many things and i found out its not about nvidia  its about wayland

btw
since i didnt upgrade gnome and that was fresh install  is it a way which i can install prior versions of gnome ?
or some other help u provide would be cool

Last edited by Unline (2017-10-31 16:14:32)

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

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Re: change gnome window manager to xorg

since i didnt upgrade gnome and that was fresh install  is it a way which i can install prior versions of gnome ?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux_Archive

Unline

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Registered: 2017-08-23

Posts: 12

Re: change gnome window manager to xorg

since i didnt upgrade gnome and that was fresh install  is it a way which i can install prior versions of gnome ?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux_Archive

ok now the problem is whole gnome is depend on

gdm-plymouth  

and this one isnt in archieve

and ofc 

gdm-plymouth  

and

 gdm 

has conflict during pacman installation
should i and is it a way to force pacman to do it ? or i have to downgrade exactly this one

 gdm-plymouth  

Xabre

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Registered: 2009-03-19

Posts: 757

Re: change gnome window manager to xorg

gdm-plymouth is an AUR package, you should have known what it does an how it conflicts with gdm from official repositories when you installed it.