Stuck on Xorg

samrob85 · 2018-06-08 20:23:02

I have been having screen tearing issues, and forums suggest that wayland is better than xorg at dealing with this, however I cannot find a way to move from xorg to wayland.

I am using the gnome desktop

"echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE" returns x11

Last edited by samrob85 (2018-06-08 20:32:20)

WorMzy · 2018-06-08 20:28:04

Well, what have you tried?

samrob85 · 2018-06-08 20:32:05

WorMzy wrote:

Well, what have you tried?

I've set Wayland enable=true in /etc/gdm/custom.conf, then restarted, but nothing changed, is there a command I need to use to apply the changes?

WorMzy · 2018-06-08 20:41:35

Okay, so you're using GDM. The wiki states that:

The Wayland backend is used by default and the Xorg backend is used only if the Wayland backend cannot be started.

So you shouldn't need to do anything special to enable wayland. Check your journal to see why it is failing back to an x11 session. You could also try launching a gnome-wayland session from the console, see if that works.

samrob85 · 2018-06-08 20:49:41

WorMzy wrote:

Okay, so you're using GDM. The wiki states that:
The Wayland backend is used by default and the Xorg backend is used only if the Wayland backend cannot be started.
So you shouldn't need to do anything special to enable wayland. Check your journal to see why it is failing back to an x11 session. You could also try launching a gnome-wayland session from the console, see if that works.

I tried to launch a wayland session as you suggested, but got the following output

dbus-daemon[6638]: [session uid=0 pid=6638] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.1' (uid=0 pid=6639 comm="/usr/lib/gnome-session-binary ")
dbus-daemon[6638]: [session uid=0 pid=6638] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
dbus-daemon[6638]: [session uid=0 pid=6638] Activating service name='org.gtk.vfs.Daemon' requested by ':1.2' (uid=0 pid=6647 comm="/usr/lib/gnome-session-check-accelerated ")
dbus-daemon[6638]: [session uid=0 pid=6638] Successfully activated service 'org.gtk.vfs.Daemon'
dbus-daemon[6638]: [session uid=0 pid=6638] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.6' (uid=0 pid=6639 comm="/usr/lib/gnome-session-binary ")
dbus-daemon[6638]: [session uid=0 pid=6638] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
dbus-daemon[6638]: [session uid=0 pid=6638] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.8' (uid=0 pid=6639 comm="/usr/lib/gnome-session-binary ")
dbus-daemon[6638]: [session uid=0 pid=6638] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
dbus-daemon[6638]: [session uid=0 pid=6638] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.10' (uid=0 pid=6639 comm="/usr/lib/gnome-session-binary ")
dbus-daemon[6638]: [session uid=0 pid=6638] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
dbus-daemon[6638]: [session uid=0 pid=6638] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.12' (uid=0 pid=6639 comm="/usr/lib/gnome-session-binary ")
dbus-daemon[6638]: [session uid=0 pid=6638] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
dbus-daemon[6638]: [session uid=0 pid=6638] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.14' (uid=0 pid=6639 comm="/usr/lib/gnome-session-binary ")
dbus-daemon[6638]: [session uid=0 pid=6638] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
dbus-daemon[6638]: [session uid=0 pid=6638] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.15' (uid=0 pid=6639 comm="/usr/lib/gnome-session-binary ")
dbus-daemon[6638]: [session uid=0 pid=6638] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
dbus-daemon[6638]: [session uid=0 pid=6638] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.15' (uid=0 pid=6639 comm="/usr/lib/gnome-session-binary ")
dbus-daemon[6638]: [session uid=0 pid=6638] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
dbus-daemon[6638]: [session uid=0 pid=6638] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.15' (uid=0 pid=6639 comm="/usr/lib/gnome-session-binary ")
dbus-daemon[6638]: [session uid=0 pid=6638] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
A connection to the bus can't be made

seth · 2018-06-08 22:05:48

How many nvidia GPUs are in your system?

samrob85 · 2018-06-09 07:29:32

seth wrote:

How many nvidia GPUs are in your system?

Just one

seth · 2018-06-09 11:04:45

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … de_setting

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#1 2018-06-08 20:23:02

Stuck on Xorg

#2 2018-06-08 20:28:04

Re: Stuck on Xorg

#3 2018-06-08 20:32:05

Re: Stuck on Xorg

#4 2018-06-08 20:41:35

Re: Stuck on Xorg

#5 2018-06-08 20:49:41

Re: Stuck on Xorg

#6 2018-06-08 22:05:48

Re: Stuck on Xorg

#7 2018-06-09 07:29:32

Re: Stuck on Xorg

#8 2018-06-09 11:04:45

Re: Stuck on Xorg

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