I’m having trouble logging in to Gnome with Wayland. After trying to login it immediately boots me out back to gdm. I installed Leap milestone 1 and had this problem so I upgraded everything to the 42.1-Current repo and still have this problem. Then I decided to check the logs. Here’s what they say:
gnome-session[7912]: WARNING: Could not parse desktop file baloo_file.desktop or it references a not found T
gnome-session[7912]: /usr/bin/gnome-shell: Unknown option --wayland
gnome-session[7912]: WARNING: App ‘gnome-shell-wayland.desktop’ exited with code 1
gnome-session[7912]: gnome-session[7912]: WARNING: App ‘gnome-shell-wayland.desktop’ exited with code 1
/usr/lib/gdm/gdm-wayland-session[7909]: Activating service name=‘org.gtk.vfs.Daemon’
/usr/lib/gdm/gdm-wayland-session[7909]: Successfully activated service ‘org.gtk.vfs.Daemon’
/usr/lib/gdm/gdm-wayland-session[7909]: Activating service name=‘ca.desrt.dconf’
org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[7911]: A connection to the bus can’t be made
org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[7911]: g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
I think the key here is the gnome-shell unknown option --wayland. Is wayland support enabled? I’m apparently running gnome-shell version 3.16.3.
I’m not sure on the technical details. However, I was unable to login to gnome-wayland with Leap.
On 2015-08-25 15:56, nrickert wrote:
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> I’m not sure on the technical details. However, I was unable to login
> to gnome-wayland with Leap.
Sorry, what is wayland? :-?
I have Leap installed under vmware player, using gnome, and it works.
I would prefer XFCE, but it is not (yet?) available.
So, not being familiar with gnome 3 I don’t know what is wayland?
I found a wikipedia article, where it seems a project for replacing X.
It seems very complex to implements what it describes, unless SLES is
using it now.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))
Wayland is the xorg replacement from Ubuntu I think so I’d not expect full compatibility with an OS that is xorg configured
No, Ubuntu’s “replacement” is Mir.
IIANM, Wayland has been developed by (some) Xorg developers and is more or less the “official” replacement.
GNOME already does provide a Wayland session (and GDM runs in Wayland by default) in Tumbleweed since months.
An alternative graphics interface. I’m surprised that you have not heard of it.
Wayland is in Tumbleweed, and Gnome-wayland does work there.
If you are using “gdm” for login, then there should be a menu choice for Gnome and another menu choice for Gnome-wayland. But, with leap, the Gnome-wayland choice doesn’t work. (I think it just hangs, but I’m not sure of that. It’s a while since I last tried).
I think Wayland is actually a project at freedesktop.org. And it does do some X emulation, so that x-based applications still work (I am able to start an “xterm” under gnome-wayland). I have not experimented much with Wayland. When Plasma 5 supports it, maybe I’ll do more.
On 2015-08-25 18:16, nrickert wrote:
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> robin_listas;2725660 Wrote:
>> Sorry, what is wayland? :-?
> An alternative graphics interface. I’m surprised that you have not
> heard of it.
I heard the name, but I didn’t pay much attention O:-)
I’m using 13.1 on all my machines, after all… and Wayland is in
Tumbleweed.
> Wayland is in Tumbleweed, and Gnome-wayland does work there.
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> If you are using “gdm” for login, then there should be a menu choice for
> Gnome and another menu choice for Gnome-wayland. But, with leap, the
> Gnome-wayland choice doesn’t work. (I think it just hangs, but I’m not
> sure of that. It’s a while since I last tried).
Ok, then I’ll have a look. Thanks all for the explanations 
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)