Gnome 46 switched me back to x11

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Hello everybody!
I just registered to the forum because I have an issue I couldn’t find anything on the web about:

I am running openSUSE Tumbleweed on my Lenovo Ideapad, and before the upgrade to Gnome 46, the system was working fine on Wayland. Since the update, I am back on x11 for some reason and my three-finger-gestures don’t work anymore. YAST shows me that Wayland is still installed, but I have no option in the login screen to choose a Wayland session. Here are some system specs:

Systemdetailsbericht

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  • Erstellungsdatum: 2024-03-27 10:47:37

Hardware-Informationen:

  • Hardware-Modell: Lenovo IdeaPad 3 15IML05
  • Speicher: 8,0 GiB
  • Prozessor: Intel® Core™ i5-10210U × 8
  • Grafik: NVIDIA GeForce MX130
  • Festplattenkapazität: 256,1 GB

Software-Informationen:

  • Firmware-Version: DXCN21WW
  • Name des Betriebssystems: openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • Betriebssystem-Build: (null)
  • Betriebssystem-Typ: 64-bit
  • GNOME-Version: 46
  • Fenstermanager: X11
  • Kernel-Version: Linux 6.8.1-1-default

I would appreciate your help very much.

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Hi and welcome to the forums :slight_smile:

This happened to me after mixing Mesa packages from both Packman and openSUSE repos.
Please show the output of:

zypper lr -dP
zypper se -si mesa
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Hi and thanks for the welcome!

Here’s the output:

peter@localhost:~> zypper lr -dP
#  | Alias                                  | Name                          | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | Priority | Type   | URI                                                                           | Service
---+----------------------------------------+-------------------------------+---------+-----------+---------+----------+--------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+---------
12 | packman                                | Packman                       | Ja      | (r ) Ja   | Ja      |   90     | rpm-md | https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/          | 
 1 | NVIDIA:repo-non-free                   | repo-non-free                 | Ja      | (r ) Ja   | Ja      |   99     | rpm-md | https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/tumbleweed/                              | NVIDIA
 2 | ftp.gwdg.de-Essentials                 | Packman Essentials Repository | Ja      | (r ) Ja   | Ja      |   99     | rpm-md | http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/Essentials | 
 3 | ftp.gwdg.de-openSUSE_Tumbleweed        | Packman Repository            | Ja      | (r ) Ja   | Ja      |   99     | rpm-md | http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/           | 
 4 | https-download.nvidia.com-570b9bd2     | nVidia Graphics Drivers       | Nein    | ----      | ----    |   99     | rpm-md | https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/tumbleweed                               | 
 5 | openSUSE:repo-non-oss                  | repo-non-oss                  | Ja      | (r ) Ja   | Ja      |   99     | rpm-md | http://cdn.opensuse.org/tumbleweed//repo/non-oss                              | openSUSE
 6 | openSUSE:repo-openh264                 | repo-openh264                 | Ja      | (r ) Ja   | Ja      |   99     | rpm-md | http://codecs.opensuse.org/openh264/openSUSE_Tumbleweed                       | openSUSE
 7 | openSUSE:repo-oss                      | repo-oss                      | Ja      | (r ) Ja   | Ja      |   99     | rpm-md | http://cdn.opensuse.org/tumbleweed//repo/oss                                  | openSUSE
 8 | openSUSE:repo-oss-debug                | repo-oss-debug                | Nein    | ----      | ----    |   99     | N/A    | http://cdn.opensuse.org/debug/tumbleweed//repo/oss                            | openSUSE
 9 | openSUSE:repo-oss-source               | repo-oss-source               | Nein    | ----      | ----    |   99     | N/A    | http://cdn.opensuse.org/source/tumbleweed//repo/oss                           | openSUSE
10 | openSUSE:update-tumbleweed             | update-tumbleweed             | Ja      | (r ) Ja   | Ja      |   99     | rpm-md | http://cdn.opensuse.org/update/tumbleweed/                                    | openSUSE
11 | opensuse-guide.org-openSUSE_Tumbleweed | libdvdcss repository          | Ja      | (r ) Ja   | Ja      |   99     | rpm-md | http://opensuse-guide.org/repo/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/                           | 
peter@localhost:~>
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Is it an Optimus system?

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I don’t know - the GPU supports Optimus, I don’t know if the proprietary Linux drivers do so. Can I check this somehow?

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ls -l /sys/class/drm/

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After choosing your user, when prompted for your password, you should see a “gear” button on the lower right corner: what options do you see there?
BTW, optimus system here, proprietary Nvidia driver and no problem…

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Just a side step (because not related to your problem), you have Packman and Packman Essentials. As the second is a subset of the first, you either need only the subset (likely), or you need more. Having both of them can give surprising results (like reporting some packages double).

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Actually, GDM disables Wayland support for multiple reasons. To shortcut round trip time, you can review /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules if any check applies to your system.

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peter@localhost:~> ls -l /sys/class/drm/
insgesamt 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 27. Mär 10:53 card0 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:01:00.0/drm/card0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 27. Mär 10:05 card1 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 27. Mär 10:05 card1-eDP-1 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card1/card1-eDP-1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 27. Mär 10:05 card1-HDMI-A-1 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card1/card1-HDMI-A-1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 27. Mär 10:05 renderD128 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/renderD128
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 27. Mär 10:53 renderD129 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:01:00.0/drm/renderD129
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 27. Mär 11:40 version
peter@localhost:~>
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It gives me the options to choose between Gnome, Gnome Classic and IceWM.

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Well, you have two cards so it looks like Optimus system. In this case GDM disables Wayland on laptop with propritary driver. But as mentioned, this is not the only reason.

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But why did it work fine before the upgrade? And how can I make it work again?

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Did you find why it does not work now?

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Just to rule out the obvious, check also that gnome-session-wayland is installed

zypper se -i gnome-session

(after doing what @arvidjaar suggests…)

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Well, I don’t understand most of the entries there, but I found this:

# If this is a hybrid graphics laptop with vendor nvidia driver, disable wayland

Could that be it?

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ls -l /run/udev/gdm*
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 27. Mär 10:05 /run/udev/gdm-machine-has-hardware-gpu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 27. Mär 10:05 /run/udev/gdm-machine-has-vendor-nvidia-driver
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 27. Mär 10:05 /run/udev/gdm-machine-is-laptop
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S | Name                          | Summary                                   | Type
--+-------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+------
i | gnome-session                 | Session Tools for the GNOME Desktop       | Paket
i | gnome-session-core            | Minimal version of the GNOME Session Ma-> | Paket
i | gnome-session-default-session | Default session support for the GNOME S-> | Paket
i | gnome-session-lang            | Translations for package gnome-session    | Paket
i | gnome-session-wayland         | Wayland support for the GNOME Session M-> | Paket
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cat /sys/module/nvidia_drm/parameters/modeset