How to add gnome-xorg as a login option?

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For unfortunate reasons I performed a fresh installation of Tumbleweed. Overall it was fairly painless.

One bit that is missing is the login option to select Gnome on Xorg. How do I add it to the option list?

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@jimbobrae what is wrong with sticking with the default Wayland on your system?

I suspect it’s the gnome_x11 pattern that is needed.

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Xorg has a couple a minor features Wayland lacks.

  1. It remembers app window positions and restarts a window at its previous position.
  2. It switches to a new browser window when I select an URL in the mail app. (Wayland opens a window, doesn’t switch to it.)

Wayland does neither of those.
I know it is trivial. Those features are a preference.

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I do not think xdm is what I want.

$ ll /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/
total 20K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   0 Nov 27 06:07 console
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  40 Sep 16 06:49 default-displaymanager -> /etc/alternatives/default-displaymanager
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 683 Sep 16 06:49 gdm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 343 Oct  1  2016 lightdm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 360 Apr 19  2021 sddm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 472 Nov 27 06:07 xdm
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@jimbobrae not seen any of those issues here on Wayland, but I do run Xorg…

I only see;

ll /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/

total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   0 Nov 27 07:07 console
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  40 Jan 31 23:27 default-displaymanager -> /etc/alternatives/default-displaymanager
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 683 Jan 31 23:27 gdm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 472 Nov 27 07:07 xdm

update-alternatives --query default-displaymanager

Name: default-displaymanager
Link: /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/default-displaymanager
Status: auto
Best: /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/gdm
Value: /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/gdm

Alternative: /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/console
Priority: 5

Alternative: /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/gdm
Priority: 25

Alternative: /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/xdm
Priority: 10
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Install:

gnome-session-xsession
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Thanks.

I had to install the OS again. This time I included the Gnome X11 pattern. Which is what is currently running.

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Why I had to perform a fresh installation twice:
zypper trashes the OS if repo failures occur

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