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SaynedBread

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Registered: 2023-12-03

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Can't start GNOME Wayland

Hey! I recently switched to GNOME because I found Plasma too buggy and in my opinion GTK is also better than QT (just yapping).

I recently noticed (when running fastfetch) that Mutter displays as: Mutter (X11), so I checked if it's actually running with X11 by running:

$ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE

and it returned:

x11

So I was right, now I start GNOME with GDM and I specifically enabled GDM to launch (with systemctl) to start GNOME but GDM only has GNOME CLASSIC and GNOME, also it only display the X11 version of Plasma so "I looked into the matter" on the ArchWiki GDM page (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GDM) and I found that setting:

#WaylandEnable=false

to:

WaylandEnable=true

(in /etc/gdm/custom.conf) might help with my issue but it didn't.

Then I checked the GNOME ArchWiki page (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GNOME) and I found that I could launch GNOME Wayland with:

$ XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session gnome-session

but when I ran it it returned absolutely nothing.

Also I have an RX 7700XT with the amdgpu drivers, and I also added it to the mkinitcpio.conf "MODULES". ALSO I use the linux-zen kernel, I don't know if that matters.

I don't know what to do anymore. Sorry if this isn't the correct format to write a "help request" and sorry but I don't know what logs to attach.

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i play war thunder btw

afader

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Registered: 2013-09-12

Posts: 176

Re: Can't start GNOME Wayland

You probably need to enable kms (kernel mode setting) https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel_mode_setting https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU#Loading

SaynedBread

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Registered: 2023-12-03

Posts: 3

Re: Can't start GNOME Wayland

It's already enabled.

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i play war thunder btw

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,236

Re: Can't start GNOME Wayland

GDM logs everything in the systemd journal.

Please run as root

# journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st 

That command will upload your journal to a public hosting site and output a link when finished.
Post that link .

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SaynedBread

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Registered: 2023-12-03

Posts: 3

Re: Can't start GNOME Wayland

Okay, here's my journalctl output: http://0x0.st/XVb-.txt

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i play war thunder btw

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,236

Re: Can't start GNOME Wayland

Aug 05 12:52:06 i-use-arch-btw systemd[1]: Starting GNOME Display Manager...
Aug 05 12:52:06 i-use-arch-btw systemd[1]: Started GNOME Display Manager.
Aug 05 12:52:06 i-use-arch-btw systemd[1]: Reached target User and Group Name Lookups.
Aug 05 12:52:06 i-use-arch-btw systemd[1]: Starting Accounts Service...
Aug 05 12:52:06 i-use-arch-btw systemd[1]: Started libvirt legacy monolithic daemon.
Aug 05 12:52:06 i-use-arch-btw systemd[1]: Reached target Multi-User System.
Aug 05 12:52:06 i-use-arch-btw systemd[1]: Reached target Graphical Interface.

Multi-user & Graphical interface should be finished initialising before starting a display manager .

Append systemd.unit=multi-user.target to your boot comand line . How to do that depends on your chosen bootloader.

The setting will disable starting gdm and give you a tty login screen .
Wait about  a minute so the system can settle down, then login as root and start gdm manually .

Try to start a wayland session, then post the journal from the boot.

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Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.

clean chroot building not flexible enough ?
Try clean chroot manager by graysky

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: The Wirral

Registered: 2014-02-20

Posts: 8,735

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Re: Can't start GNOME Wayland

Did Plasma use Wayland? Do any other Wayland desktops work?

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