TIL: How to Start Gnome Wayland Session From TTY
TIL: How to Start Gnome Wayland Session From TTY Better Version 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 ...