SpiralLinux
Wayland. #316
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I am taking a wild guess and you don't like Wayland? I tried to enable it and was unable to. Not sure what else was removed. Any chance of leaving Wayland in as an option to use or not? I've been using bookworm with liquorix kernel and loving it. I just also like Wayland. I did do this and it did not seem to bring wayland back. WaylandEnable=false in /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf |
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It seems changes like this is deviating from a Debian install a bit. So we are not getting enhanced Debian, but something else. |
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There are a ton of changes in SpiralLinux that deviate from vanilla Debian. That's the whole point of SpiralLinux, to pre-configure Debian to meet specific user needs, but always within the framework of what can be achieved via alternate package selection and modified configuration files that won't get overwritten during future Debian updates. The vanilla |
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Correct. For the users that I support there are still too many limitations and random stuff they might need to use that doesn't work as expected under Wayland. Also the Wayland session doesn't support automatic screen resizing in VirtualBox, whereas it does work in all the other SpiralLinux editions under X11.
It already is an option, just remove |
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I will go back and try that again. |
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Great. Just moved from Ubuntu where xkill, a tool I used to use regularly, was useless. Now I can set it up again as that useful shortcut to quickly dump the misbehaving. Hardly a power user but I can't say I noticed any benefit myself from the replacement of X11 by Wayland. |
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Not sure what I did wrong before. I went back through it in a VM and Wayland was there this time. Not sure how I messed that one up. Wayland is 100% there now though. Thank you. |
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Glad you figured it out, thanks for confirming. |
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Correct. For the users that I support there are still too many limitations and random stuff they might need to use that doesn't work as expected under Wayland. Also the Wayland session doesn't support automatic screen resizing in VirtualBox, whereas it does work in all the other SpiralLinux editions under X11.
It already is an option, just remove
WaylandEnable=falsefrom/etc/gdm3/daemon.confand reboot.