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860lacov

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Registered: 2020-05-02

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[SOLVED] Gnome Xorg disappeared from gnome login screen

I have nvidia GPU (gtx780)
I did what wiki says:

nvidia 364.16 adds support for DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) kernel mode setting. To enable this feature, add the nvidia-drm.modeset=1 kernel parameter. For basic functionality that should suffice, if you want to ensure it's loaded at the earliest possible occasion, or are noticing startup issues you can add nvidia, nvidia_modeset, nvidia_uvm and nvidia_drm to the initramfs according to Mkinitcpio#MODULES.

After the restart I could choose Gnome and Gnome Xorg. I believe Gnome is wayland version and Gnome Xorg is Xorg version.
I'm not sure when but Gnome Xorg  disappeared from login screen.

Last edited by 860lacov (2020-12-26 00:29:20)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Xorg disappeared from gnome login screen

GDM enabled a udev rule at some point that automatically enforces xorg on nvidia by default . So you should be booting into xorg GDM and thus xorg gnome as a whole regardless.

erfanjoker

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Xorg disappeared from gnome login screen

After the restart I could choose Gnome and Gnome Xorg. I believe Gnome is wayland version and Gnome Xorg is Xorg version.
I'm not sure when but Gnome Xorg  disappeared from login screen.

If you're using Nvidia, then its ok, Since latest updates Gnome's default option in Startup Manager logs you into the Xorg version by default, It happened to me too
To ensure that you are on xorg try the knowing $XDG_SESSION_TYPE, if x11 then its xorg :

echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE

Another way to ensure if your'e using GDM is : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GD … rg_backend

Last edited by erfanjoker (2020-12-26 00:37:03)