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Wayland
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2018 3:05 pm
by Jonny
Has anyone managed to get Gnome on Wayland working with MX-17? I installed the relevant packages but as soon as I try to log in with the Wayland session it goes back to the login screen. Any suggestions?
Re: Wayland
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2018 4:59 pm
by Stevo
It might require that systemd be running, since that's tied more tightly with GNOME.. Can you try booting MX from the advanced section of the GRUB menu with systemd to see if that makes any difference?
Re: Wayland
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2018 5:16 pm
by Jonny
That was also my thought, but systemd mode behaves exactly the same.
In both modes it starts from a text tty session:
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dbus-run-session -- gnome-shell --display-server --wayland
But starting from the graphical login screen fails.
Re: Wayland
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2018 6:12 pm
by Stevo
Hmmm...what about installing gdm and using that as the display manager?
Re: Wayland
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2018 8:10 am
by Jonny
Interesting... yes, gdm3 works, both with and without systemd, but now I have a boring greeter :(
Re: Wayland
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2018 4:01 pm
by Stevo
Well, there must be some way of customizing the gdm theme, but I don't know how.
Re: Wayland
Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 9:57 am
by abbreviatedman
I got it working with gdm3, but then it would regularly hang for seconds at a time.
No biggie, xfce (especially the way MX-17 implements it!) is pretty great too.