On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 05:31:59PM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > A while back I installed GNOME 3 (Buster), and it dragged Wayland in, and > now runs on top of Wayland. I like Wayland, but some things (like Synaptic) > don't work with it. Is there a way to run GNOME 3 on Xorg? > > Paul > > -- > Paul M. Foster > http://noferblatz.com > http://quillandmouse.com > Log out of Gnome3. You get the login splash with username to click on. That opens the password box. Just under the password box is a cog wheel icon. Before you put your password in, click on the cog. You get various options - Gnome will default to Wayland but you can also choose Gnome on X11. [I can't remember what Default X11 does]
Hope this helps, All the very best as ever, Andy C
