How to deactivate Wayland and Activate Xorg

[RADEL]

Greetings to all users and Internet users of this wonderful Fedora forum, I hereby request you kindly to help me on the steps to be done in the terminal to deactivate Wayland and activate Xorg in the Operating System Fedora Linux 27 LXDE x86_x64.

I thank you in advance for your kind assistance, attention and prompt answers.

[lsatenstein]

Hola Radel

When you log into Fedora, before you provide your password, you will note that there is a Gear Icon. Click on that gear icon and choose Gnome-xorg

[antikythera]

wayland isn't used for LXDE desktop

[RadoslavCap]

You can find your session type in a terminal in this way:

1. Get your session number:

radoslavc@localhost ~> loginctl
   SESSION        UID USER             SEAT             TTY             
        c1         42 gdm              seat0            /dev/tty1       
         2       1000 radoslavc        seat0            /dev/tty2       

2 sessions listed.

2. Get your session type. In my case is session number 2:

radoslavc@localhost ~> loginctl show-session 2 -p Type
Type=wayland

[nsnbm]

Using loginctl, as described by RadoslavCap in post #4, works where one has logged into runlevel 5, that is, the GUI login. If the machine has been booted to text where the login has occurred, and then had the GUI started up, the Type will likely be tty

[tom@owl ~]$ loginctl show-session 1 -p Type
Type=tty

In any case, i think only the fedora standard workstation installation with gnome has wayland.

A reliable way of finding out whether X or wayland is running is to use the ps command and grep for wayland or Xorg.

[tom@owl ~]$ ps aux |grep -i wayland
tom       1660  0.0  0.0 119728  1056 pts/5    S+   10:27   0:00 grep --color=auto -i wayland
[tom@owl ~]$ ps aux |grep -i Xorg
root       984  0.8  1.3 362148 53080 tty2     Ssl+ 08:25   0:59 /usr/libexec/Xorg :0
tom       1662  0.0  0.0 119728  1052 pts/5    S+   10:27   0:00 grep --color=auto -i Xorg

You discount the output of the grep command itself of course, and the result is decisive.

[HaydnH]

A bit of a curve ball on the above that's worth bearing in mind: it's possible to not be using wayland for the Window Manager (Gnome, LXDE, Window Maker whatever), but due to the fact the login manager (GDM etc) is using Wayland then certain functionality that Wayland breaks won't work. For example, I've had "xscreensaver -lock" break when not running Wayland due to GDM using it.

[bobx001]

dnf install lightdm

systemctl disable gdm
systemctl enable lightdm

I believe that may work, but I usually do this in a terminal, replacing the symlinks.

reboot.

[HaydnH]

reboot.

You shouldn't have to reboot, just stop gdm and start the other *dm you wish to use, e.g:

dnf install lxdm
systemctl stop gdm.service
systemctl disable gdm.service
systemctl enable lxdm.service
systemctl start lxdm.service

[deusdara]

Hi

Edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf file

# nano /etc/gdm/custom.conf

And uncomment those lines

# GDM configuration storage

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

AutomaticLoginEnable=True
AutomaticLogin=deusdara