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thorstenhirsch

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Registered: 2005-08-03

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Wayland: removing xorg-server also removes gdm, what now?

Wayland works well, but I still can't get rid of xorg-server, because gdm depends on it. Since there's no gdm-wayland package what's the recommended way? Will the Gnome developers migrate gdm to wayland anytime soon or do I have to switch from gdm to lightdm? I would prefer to just use Gnome's default DM, whatever that is.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Wayland: removing xorg-server also removes gdm, what now?

Why remove it?

GDM already uses Wayland by default in most circumstances.

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

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Re: Wayland: removing xorg-server also removes gdm, what now?

If you absolutely want to remove all xorg packages you could try your luck with the AUR. There sems to be a package in the AUR for building GDM without xorg called gdm-plymouth-nox
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?K=gdm-plymouth-nox

If your only reason is saving disk space, then this won't save anything (at most 5MB) if you want to keep xwayland. You'll also have the sources laying around for building if you do not remove them each time.

Last edited by progandy (2023-12-15 20:08:37)

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thorstenhirsch

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Registered: 2005-08-03

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Re: Wayland: removing xorg-server also removes gdm, what now?

Why remove it?

Do you sometimes take out the garbage? Same reason.

@progandy: Thanks, but gdm-plymouth needs plymouth, that's even worse. Guess I just have to wait.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Wayland: removing xorg-server also removes gdm, what now?

Do you sometimes take out the garbage? Same reason.

Then why don't you just also remove GDM?

On the more constructive node, GDM will most likely not have any (hard) runtime deps on xorg-server or be insane enough to link into /usr/lib/xorg/modules/ (though, well, it's gnome stuff…) so you can most likely just replace the package w/ a dummy to fulfill the package dependecies w/o actually installing any xorg-server files.

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Taijian

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Registered: 2016-04-10

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Re: Wayland: removing xorg-server also removes gdm, what now?

Why remove it?

Do you sometimes take out the garbage? Same reason.

@progandy: Thanks, but gdm-plymouth needs plymouth, that's even worse. Guess I just have to wait.

Actually, it no longer does - I guess I should just rename it already...

I started out requiring plymouth back when GDM in the official repos did not support plymouth. When extra/gdm started supporting plymouth, I mirrored their changes in my packages (and deleted gdm-plymouth), but never got around to renaming this one...

So: Do try it out, that would make two of us using it

thorstenhirsch

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Registered: 2005-08-03

Posts: 127

Re: Wayland: removing xorg-server also removes gdm, what now?

So: Do try it out, that would make two of us using it

Works like a charm. Thank you!