I did a fresh install of openSUSE Leap 16.0. After installing NVIDIA drivers and additional software I did realize, that I’m not running a Wayland session. loginctl reports
loginctl show-session 3 -p Type
Type=x11
I don’t understand why that has happened — at least my understanding was, that X11 session is not even provided with Leap 16.0. Can someone help to clarify this?
X11 is available for installation. Did you try to switch back to wayland on your login screen?
I don’t see any such option in the login screen.
Which DE and login manager are you using?
KDE Plasma 6.4.2, SDDM
OK, so I’m blind. Or rather, I have a 4K display and SDDM is by default … well I did not notice that text next to the (expected) virtual keyboard toggle.
Now I’m running a Wayland session. Thank for help! So I know that Wayland may be not the default session after installation and I have X11 available, which is great. (I’m testing this distro before deploying it to other machines…)
And just in case you may have misunderstood, you only need to do the switch that first time. It should keep sessions in Wayland from then on.
Oh, and welcome to our community.
Thank you very much!
I can confirm, that Wayland is working as expected and I don’t need to switch anything anymore. 
Fortunately, X11 is supported. So, when you get stuck (like you want remote desktop, you want multi-session, remote applications)… you can ditch Wayland. IMHO, right now, the items in the parentheses are NOT going to be “working” in Wayland in the next few years. Which is ok for many, except Windows folks expecting some sort of reasonable Remote Desktop… But for others of us that expect even more than that, really painful.
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