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From: jdm <jdm@jdm.myzen.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2021 10:11:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210623101136.7f3783bd@echoes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2781279.e9J7NaK4W3@lenovo.localdomain>

On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 16:17:41 +0100
Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com> wrote:

> On Monday, 21 June 2021 17:27:31 BST Wols Lists wrote:
> > What happens when you get to the end of the handbook?
> > 
> > I want to get a working Wayland setup with a (multi-user) graphical
> > login. When I set my old system up ($DEITY knows how long ago) I
> > seem to remember a page on setting up X, and all sorts of stuff.
> > 
> > Now, you seem to get dumped at working tty1 prompt, and then the
> > *helpful* documentation JUST STOPS. It doesn't even point you at
> > anything! (Yes it points you at the portage page about how to
> > maintain your system, but that isn't much use if you can't DO
> > anything with the system...)
> > 
> > I've found the page on Wayland, but it just says "set this use flag
> > and install two packages".
> > 
> > Where's the documentation that tells me what I need, and how to set
> > it up, please ...
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Wol  
> 
> Have you tried using a Display Manager?  Some of my systems won't
> work with Wayland, but I haven't spent time to find out why all I get
> with them is a black screen.
> 
> Anyway, from a VT you'd run something like:
> 
> XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland
> 
> or 
> 
> XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session gnome-session

There is a wayland greeter which uses greetd and gtkgreet which may
be worth looking at and there is a gentoo wiki which goes a long with
it. It works with wayfire which is a nice wayland window manager and is
very reliable.

Also look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Wayland_Desktop_Landscape

John 


  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-23  9:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-21 16:27 [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login Wols Lists
2021-06-21 15:17 ` Michael
2021-06-23  9:11   ` jdm [this message]
2021-06-25  7:50     ` antlists
2021-06-25  8:46       ` Michael
2021-06-25 19:15         ` antlists
2021-06-25 23:51           ` Michael
2021-06-26  7:19             ` Wols Lists
2021-06-26  9:28               ` Michael
2021-06-26 10:50                 ` antlists
2021-06-26 12:00                   ` Michael
2021-06-28 19:23                     ` antlists
2021-06-29  7:49                       ` [gentoo-user] [FIXED] " Wols Lists
2021-06-29  9:44                         ` Michael
2021-06-29 10:32                           ` antlists
2021-06-29 11:14                             ` Michael
2021-06-27  9:05   ` [gentoo-user] " Wols Lists
2021-06-27 10:36     ` Michael
2021-06-27 11:52       ` antlists
2021-06-27 12:24         ` Michael
2021-06-27 15:14       ` Jack
2021-06-27 15:44         ` antlists
2021-08-04 20:24   ` [gentoo-user] SOLVED (hopefully) " antlists
2021-08-04 22:28     ` Michael
2021-07-03 11:00 ` [gentoo-user] " Tamer Higazi
2021-07-03 19:25   ` antlists

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