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gdm package

  1. Bug #1500673
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 1500673

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Evan R (emanguy1) wrote :

When I was fishing around in /etc/gdm/custom.conf I noticed this line:

[daemon]
# Uncomment the line below to force the login screen to use Xorg
#WaylandEnable = false

After doing a bit of research I found this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GDM#Use_Xorg_backend which says that by default, GDM 3.16+ uses Wayland as the default display server. I installed the xwayland package and GDM started working again. Apparently xwayland isn't one of GDM's dependencies, given my "apt-cache rdepends gdm" output.