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Subject: Re: GNOME on Wayland current status
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2018 17:53:14 +0100
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To: Rutger Helling <rhelling@mykolab.com>
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Hello!

Rutger Helling <rhelling@mykolab.com> 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=3Dwayland 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=E2=80=99d like to try out GNOME on Wayland?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.