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raj47i

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Wayland only GDM & GNOME possible? Is there a package group for it?

Is it mandatory to have X server for gnome?

I installed gnome and it does work fine with Wayland by default. But noticed that X is also installed.
Doesn't everything work fine with out X?

Also, while trying to manually uninstall xorg-server - noticed that gdm has a dependency set for that package.

Is there a reason for this ?

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Re: Wayland only GDM & GNOME possible? Is there a package group for it?

Doesn't everything work fine with out X?

XWayland implements a compatibility layer to seamlessly run legacy X11 applications on Wayland.

Are you sure all your applications support running under wayland without using XWayland ?

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raj47i

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Re: Wayland only GDM & GNOME possible? Is there a package group for it?

Its a fresh Arch installation.
After pacstrap and networking configuration, when I installed gnome with the instructions in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME xorg-server already got itself installed with gdm
Btw, sddm also have a dependency on xorg-server.

Is there no display manager that will work with out xorg-server ?

progandy

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Re: Wayland only GDM & GNOME possible? Is there a package group for it?

sddm has a pull request that is under development for a pure wayland greeter:  https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/616

It may be possible to build gdm without xorg support, but I never looked into gdm. If you have an nvidia card, then it will always use xorg:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GDM

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raj47i

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Re: Wayland only GDM & GNOME possible? Is there a package group for it?

Okay, thanks for sharing that; I will explore that.

And no, I do not have an nvidia card. This is a dell inspiron 15 3000 series laptop, and it has Radeon graphics.

Last edited by raj47i (2018-11-06 04:09:13)