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congomonster

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Registered: 2023-03-17

Posts: 5

[solved]how to start labwc and wayland

Hi,

i searched for something similar like openbox. And i found labwc
https://labwc.github.io/index.html

I installed it with the aur. It seems not to work so i build it from source. The command

labwc -v

outputs

labwc 0.6.2

My Gnome session runs under x11. I logged out from my gnome session and pressed

Strg+Alt+F2

to get to the terminal. Then i typed labwc to start labwc.

labwc

But that didn't work. I get errors:

[../labwc-0.6.2/src/config/rcxml.c:899] cannot read (/rc.xml)
[backend/backend.c:217] Found 0 GPUs, cannot create backend
[backend/backend.c:390] Failed to open any DRM device
[../labwc-0.6.2/src/server.c:214] unable to create backend

Has this something to do with my Nvidia Card and the driver?

The command:

grep "X Driver" /var/log/Xorg.0.log

gives me the output:

NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 530.41.03

Last edited by congomonster (2023-04-07 14:30:46)

plarke

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Registered: 2014-07-17

Posts: 15

Re: [solved]how to start labwc and wayland

I think you should be able to run both at once, but did you try stopping gnome entirely with "sudo systemctl disable gdm" and then reboot?

Last edited by plarke (2023-04-07 02:48:19)

Lone_Wolf

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Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: [solved]how to start labwc and wayland

Has this something to do with my Nvidia Card and the driver?

Possibly. You have seen the NOTE about nvidia on https://github.com/labwc/labwc#5-usage ?

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congomonster

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Registered: 2023-03-17

Posts: 5

Re: [solved]how to start labwc and wayland

Thanks, that did the trick. At start i pressed e and append nvidia-drm.modeset=1
After that i can start labwc.