---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 2:53 PM Subject: Re: gdm3: gdm.service fails to start when WaylandEnable=false if gnome-session-xsession isn't installed To: [email protected]; richard newton <[email protected]>
Control: reopen -1 Control: retitle -1 gdm3: gdm.service fails to start when WaylandEnable=false if gnome-session-xsession isn't installed On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 4:00 AM richard newton <[email protected]> wrote: > Seems to work ok now, after installing gnome-session-xsession > > Bug can be closed, but more helpful error message, or comment in daemon.conf > would be nice This is https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/issues/881 We might want to consider building GDM with -Dx11-support=false to avoid this failure case. I think that forces GDM into Wayland-only mode but users can still log into the GNOME on Xorg session or other desktop sessions that don't support Wayland. Hopefully, all our users should be able to run Wayland for the login screen, but there are enough concerns about whether Wayland works for all GNOME users that we are more hesitant to stop installing gnome-session-xsession by default like Fedora 42 does. But gnome-session-xsession is only a Recommends to enable people to try out that experience. Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
