Bug#872316: gdm3: "GNOME on Xorg" always uses Xwayland

[Michael Biebl]

Am 17.08.2017 um 12:21 schrieb Kentaro Hayashi:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:09:15 +0200 Andreas Henriksson <andreas at fatal.se> wrote:
>> You seem confused.
>>
>> There's a difference between the *GDM* session and your *user* session.
>>
>> The GDM session will normally always be Wayland, and in case that fails
>> fall back on using Xorg. The WaylandEnable=false setting makes GDM
>> use the fallback without first trying Wayland.
>>
>> What you choose on the gear icon at the login screen is what you
>> use for your user session.
>>
> 
> Thanks for kindly explanation, yes, I'm confused and I've found 
> that I misunderstood what these session are.
> 
>> I'm closing this bug report as the bug tracking system is not a
>> support forum. Please look elsewhere for help on understanding
>> the system.
> 
> Just a moment, please.
> Surely this is not a support forum, so it should close "not a bug" report about gdm3. 
> But, it still ships /usr/share/xsessions/gnome-xorg.desktop, so user can choose it 
> on the gear icon at the login screen. 
> It seems that situation which is easy to misunderstand is kept.
> 
> How about taking action to improve?
> 
> plan 1. retire /usr/share/xsessions/gnome-xorg.desktop
>            (because xorg is used as a fallback, not used always)

Again, a misunderstanding. Those sessions are for the user login
session, not the gdm session.

> plan 2. rewrite Name= entry more suitable one.
>            (not to be confused)

Why would we do that? I'm not sure what's unsuitable about them. Please
elaborate.



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