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Hello,
I've just recently swapped from KDE to Gnome and was wanting to try Wayland.
I installed gnome-shell gdm xorg-server-xwayland and some other bits and pieces, Nautilus, tweak tool etc.
I used systemctl to enable gdm and rebooted. On first logon I used GNOME from the GDM drop down menu (on a side note there was NO GNOME CLASSIC option) and logged in successfully. All looks OK. I installed some gnome extensions, rebooted and select GNOME again to ensure all was OK.
Rebooted but this time I selected GNOME on Wayland and put in my login credentials. It seemed to start to login but then threw me back to GDM login screen (minus the cog wheel to select environment). Tried my password again and again it went away and then threw me back to the login screen.
I then clicked where the cog wheel should be and after a couple of clicks the drop menu would appear and I selected GNOME but on the first attempt I got the same response as for my Wayland attempts. So I tried again and this time it logged me in but none of my gnome extensions were activated. From the tweak tool/gnome extensions website they were all shown as off so I enabled them. All OK.
Thought I would reboot to make everthing nice and tidy again. However on the reboot request a warning popped and saying other users were logged in and showed me as being logged in twice.
I rebooted and went through the whole rigmarole above with the same result.
So do I have to do anything else. In the wiki it mentions starting the xorg-server-xwayland manually. I could not find a way to do it via systemctl
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You can start it from the shell.
To do so, from a terminal (as root/sudo) "systemctl disable gdm".
Reboot. You'll end up in a shell. Login as your regular user and enter the command "gnome-session --session=gnome-wayland". Voila!
To reverse, when you boot into shell, renable gdmwith "systemctl enable gdm"
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I'm experiencing the same behavior on a fresh new install. Notebook with NVIDIA optimus (intel + GeForce 540M). No way to run wayland from GDM?
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