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Display glitches and "shakes" back and forth sometimes
A few months ago now, a problem started happening where my entire display appears to "shake" off the screen center and back extremely fast, with graphical glitches appearing as well. This ...
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Wayland no longer enable-able on Ubuntu 22.04 with NVidia?
I have enabled Wayland on Ubuntu 22.04 as follows:
/etc/gdm3/custom.conf I set WaylandEnable=true
But when I run
echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE it shows x11
I read that Gnome disables wayland when it detects ...
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GDM Wayland session dies with gnome-shell error No GPUs with outputs found (NVIDIA)
GDM tries to start a Wayland session but gnome-shell dies with "No GPUs with outputs found". GDM doesn't offer a choice of Wayland sessions as a result.
System has NVIDIA GPU in addition to ...
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GDM3 issues on 23.10
I recently updated to 23.0 and then 23.10 (hoping it would fix the issue).
When the OS gets to the screen which would normally be the DM login, it just gives the vague "Oh no!" Message. I've ...
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Strange app behavior on wayland
I am trying wayland for the first few times on ubuntu 23-10, but I am experiencing some problems with apps.
For starters, if I open several windows in chrome, and some of them contain media (video) ...
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How can I log into an X session on 23.10?
I recently upgraded to 23.10 and seem to be stuck on Wayland.
That's a problem because I'm a Nvidia graphics card owner and for the time being that means that Wayland is still pretty ropey. The ...
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Ubuntu 22.04: Freeze/Login Loop caused by GDM
Writing this question as a resource for future readers.
Environment: Ubuntu 22.04, Wayland
Hardware: Nvidia GeForce MX550
I have an issue where my computer freezes after the login screen. After ...
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Ubuntu 23.04 freeze at login screen after fn lock
I have basically clean install of latest Ubuntu 23.04 on my Lattitude laptop (no nvidia or proprietary drivers)
And after a few days, it suddenly started to freeze right at login screen.
Have to go to ...
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How to disable Wayland on multiple users
I am attempting to disable Wayland on 2 users at the same time on my machine so I could remote connect using TeamViewer.
I tried setting sudo nano /etc/gdm3/custom.conf to WaylandEnable=false on both ...
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First user logs in using X11, switch user logs in using Wayland
I would like to use X11 for all user logins on my Ubuntu 22.04 setup so I uncommented WaylandEnable=false in /etc/gdm3/custom.conf.
After a reboot, the first user logs in and echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE is ...
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Login screen settings icon disappeared
So, I used to have a login settings icon on the login screen, which would show as you type your password. See the bottom right icon here: (mine use to have 2 entries, not 3.)
I tried a Wayland ...
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"Error: Can't open display: wayland-0" on 22.04/gdm3
I am building a new workstation environment on Ubuntu Server 22.04 and manually installing just the minimal desktop components necessary to manage a half dozen libvirt/QEMU/KVM virtual machines (where ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 stuck during boot with "Started User Manager for UID ..."
Hello everybody out there using Ubuntu,
Booting Ubuntu 18.04 on a ThinkPad X230t (with Coreboot BIOS) used to work fine, but now it stops with the message
[ OK ] Started GNOME Display Manager.
[ OK ...
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LTS22.04 - nVidia 515.65.01 enable wayland - proving impossible
I have migrated from Windows to Ubuntu on a Lenovo Legion 5 Pro laptop, I want to compare Wayland to X11 (scaling issues on my multi-monitor setup) but cannot get Wayland enabled. I've tried the two ...
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Blank screen after boot on 22.04 with amdgpu
I'm having issues after upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 on a Razer Blade 14 RZ09-0370. This laptop comes with an AMD 5900HX CPU with embedded graphics, which is the adapter I'm trying to use. ...
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How to use Wayland for the gdm login screen?
I'm on Ubuntu 20.04 and would like to use Wayland as the GDM login screen, to avoid the gnome-shell owned by gdm consuming my RAM.
WaylandEnable=false is disabled in my /etc/gdm3/custom.conf
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wayland login loop after moving $HOME to new SSD
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I moved my home dir to a new SSD and manually changed owner to my user. Now I cannot log into wayland unless I log in to Xorg session first.
I moved my home directory to a new SSD using rsync -...
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GDM3 not starting, where are the log files?
I am trying to build my custom distro based on impish x86_64 using debootstrap. I am not using any display drivers, only the generic ones included in linux-image-generic. I use systemd-boot as a ...
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Why does list of sessions types change when I switch user
When I log in with an user I have the following list
Gnome
Gnome classique
Ubuntu
But if I switch user, I have this list
Gnome
Gnome classique
Gnome on Wayland
Ubuntu
Ubuntu On Wayland
Whereas I ...
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Login only via Ubuntu Wayland possible and User is missing in Login List, Ubuntu 20.04
After update from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04, all works fine. My notebook has two users there have access to the client with a separate user profile.
After Unsubscribe from my profile, is it impossible to ...
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Can't find Wayland sessions on GDM
I have Kubuntu 19.10 installed and then I installed gnome through apt thus having sddm and gdm3, my problem is that on gdm3 on the login screen I can only select plasma or ubuntu but can't find ...
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I can't login to ubuntu 19.04, I can only login as wayland
When I access my computer the screen goes black and returns to the login screen.
Already tried /etc/init.d/gdm3 restart and nothing.
logs:
Xorg.0.log
Xorg.1.log
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Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS support for Intel Core M Processor
I never installed a Ubuntu Desktop on Intel Core M processor before and not even on current laptop. I am trying out Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I am facing non-smooth animations of app drawer and stuttering of ...
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How to disable GUI on boot in 18.04 (Bionic Beaver)?
It appears that sudo systemctl disable gdm3 && sudo systemctl disable gdm do not work in 18.04 to disable the windowing system at bootup. What's the method for doing this now?
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18.04: How to get Wayland back after upgrade to 18.04?
Since 17.10 I got familiar with Wayland and I really need the per-monitor-scaling!
How can I start a wayland session after dist-upgrade to Bionic? There is no option in GDM available out-of-the-box.
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No login screen/Stuck at Ubuntu logo in 18.04
My system stuck at ubuntu logo while booting. To resolve it, I've set nomodeset.
But now it occurs a resolution issue to 1024x768.
Here are the necessary information:
lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 vga
00:...
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How do I access console from GDM ? (wayland)
When on GDM login screen, Ctrl+Alt+F3 ... F7 does not work.
After logging into GNOME desktop, then Ctrl+Alt+F1 will bring me to GDM, F2 back to GNOME, and F3 to F7 to a TTY terminal.
But before I log ...
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Ubuntu 17.10 crashes to console, sometimes!
I have a fresh artful_x64, with preinstalled softwares, and experiencing GUI crash(using default wayland), and screen jumps to boot console log(at last line when it was booting up).
When I log back ...
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GDM and GNOME at wrong resolution
I'm trying to setup Ubuntu 17.10 and having all sorts of issues with screen resolution. The login screen sets the resolution to 1920x2160 (have no idea where it is getting this from) which is ...
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How do I add Xorg/Wayland server arguments through GDM?
[Not important, Ubuntu 17.10]
With LightDM, I was able to modify a file called '50-xserver-command.conf' so I could add the -retro option (just because I could and I wanted it); however, with the new ...
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Gnome session broken on Ubuntu 17.10
My dell inspiron 660s with intel graphics ran Ubuntu 16.04.3 for a year with no issues, and I decided to give 17.10 a try.
After installing 17.10, ubuntu restricted extras, lowlatency kernel, and ...
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Ubuntu 17.10 is not running Wayland
I am experiencing some strange problems in Ubuntu 17.10. At the login screen I am missing the small icon that allows changing between X and Wayland. In fact, the default installation is running X and ...
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How to keep dual monitor setting after reboot (with gnome, gdm, wayland)
I would like to recover my previous monitors configuration when my computer boots with an external monitor plugged in. It works out of the box with lightdm, gnome, and X session, it's not the case ...
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No way to choose wayland in GDM using UbuntuGNOME 17.04
I am trying to get wayland running using UbuntuGnome 17.04 with nvidia-381 installed using the graphics-drivers ppa and a Geforce 1050TI card.
Using older Ubuntu versions I was able to select between ...
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How to start gnome wayland desktop from lightdm?
I installed Gnome 3.24 (gnome-shell and gnome-desktop-environment) on a previous Ubuntu 17.04 (Unity) installation.
I can start gnome Wayland session from display manager gdm3, but not from Lightdm. ...
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