gnome-terminal not showing up in wmctrl

derDaniel · 2017-09-21 20:44:44

Hey guys,

longer story here:
I was using Lightdm with Gnome and switched to GDM a couple of days ago. This was where some things started to act weird.
I was using this script here to switch between apps. [1] It basically uses wmctrl to start or switch to an app.

This worked very fine for the gnome-terminal before.

Now being in a gnome-terminal an running wmctrl -l the gnome-terminal does not appear in the list anymore.
Other things like xprop|grep WM_CLASS are also not working with gnome-terminal anymore.

Any idea how to trail down this bug?
Has this to do with Wayland?

[1] https://superuser.com/questions/614792/ … 82_1228053

V1del · 2017-09-21 21:24:17

derDaniel wrote:

Has this to do with Wayland?

Very likely, if you aren't explicitly loading up GNOME on Xorg GDM will default to start Wayland.

derDaniel · 2017-09-22 08:31:27

Since this is the newbie corner... How do I tell GDM to start Xorg instead of Wayland?

Slithery · 2017-09-22 08:44:04

By selecting X from the session icon. This is usually a cog but it depends on your GDM theme

derDaniel · 2017-09-22 08:48:24

Awesome thanks!
Everything works again.

Last edited by derDaniel (2017-09-22 08:49:09)

Slithery · 2017-09-22 15:12:25

Great.

Please remember to mark this thread [SOLVED].
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Last edited by Slithery (2017-09-22 15:13:07)

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gnome-terminal not showing up in wmctrl

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