TIL: How to Start Gnome Wayland Session From TTY

veganomy posted a better version: https://github.com/hmajid2301/blog/issues/2

Copy org.gnome.Shell.desktop file locally:

$ cp /usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Shell.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/org.gnome.Shell-Wayland.desktop

Edit it so that it so that it runs gnome-shell as a wayland compositor:

$ less ~/.local/share/applications/org.gnome.Shell-Wayland.desktop
...
Exec=/usr/bin/gnome-shell --wayland
...

Copy gnome.session file locally:

$ cp /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome.session ~/.config/gnome-session/sessions/gnome-wayland.session

Edit it to use org.gnome.Shell-Wayland:

$ less ~/.config/gnome-session/sessions/gnome-wayland.session
...
RequiredComponents=org.gnome.Shell-Wayland;gnome-settings-daemon;
...

Now create an executable ~/.local/bin/gnome :

#!/bin/sh

[ -r /bin/gnome-session ] && {
	export \
		EGL_PLATFORM=wayland \
		GDK_BACKEND=wayland \
		XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=gnome
	/bin/gnome-session --session=gnome-wayland
}

Make sure this directory is in your ~/.bash_profile $PATH : export PATH=~/.local/bin:$PATH

Now you can run a wayland session through TTY :

$ gnome