Re: GNOME on Wayland current status

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

Rutger Helling <address@hidden> skribis:

> As discussed in patch #29758 I've tried GNOME on Wayland on the
> different display managers.
>
> SDDM: Should work, just pick the "GNOME (on Wayland)" session.
> SLiM: Doesn't seem to work. I'm not sure if SLiM has support for
> Wayland sessions at all.
> I couldn't get GDM to start, so I don't know if that works or not.
>
> Note that you can use the following command to manually start GNOME on
> Wayland:
> XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session gnome-session
>
> This seems to require that you've started GNOME via a display manager
> first though.

Thanks for the update!

Any idea what could be done in terms of documentation or code
(services?) for people who’d like to try out GNOME on Wayland?

Thanks,
Ludo’.