I am trying to get my head round Wayland and Wayland sessions. Think I have worked out much of it but a little confused as to what behaviour I should expect when logging in on a freshly updated Tumbleweed system today. The system is being run under VirtualBox.
I am logging in for these sessions using sddm as the display manager and am using the following to determine my session type:
loginctl session-status
I have the following options for sessions and the results I get:
Login with "Plasma (Wayland) - I get a Wayland session on tty8
Login with "Plasma (X11) - I get an X11 session on tty7
So far so good. Then I looked at Gnome.
Login with “GNOME on Xorg” - get a Gnome session on X11 on tty7
Login with “GNOME” - get a Gnome session on X11 on tty7 but was expecting a session on Wayland or maybe I have missed something or not installed all that Gnome needs. Any ideas anyone?
If I login with “GNOME Classic” - I get an LXDE session on X11 (That is my system default DE and I know that LXDE is not Wayland compatible) but surprised I don’t get an old style Gnome desktop despite Gnome-shell-classic being installed. Again any ideas?
Finally, I use Xrdp a lot on my systems and wondered if there was an equivalent for wayland and any recommendations if I was to go over to an entirely Wayland system.
Many thanks.
PS I also find that the shared clipboard does not work with VirtualBox and Wayland running on the VM but I guess that is a VBox extensions issue.