Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

[jdm]

On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 16:17:41 +0100
Michael <confabulate@××××××××.com> wrote:

> On Monday, 21 June 2021 17:27:31 BST Wols Lists wrote:
> > What happens when you get to the end of the handbook?
> >
> > I want to get a working Wayland setup with a (multi-user) graphical
> > login. When I set my old system up ($DEITY knows how long ago) I
> > seem to remember a page on setting up X, and all sorts of stuff.
> >
> > Now, you seem to get dumped at working tty1 prompt, and then the
> > *helpful* documentation JUST STOPS. It doesn't even point you at
> > anything! (Yes it points you at the portage page about how to
> > maintain your system, but that isn't much use if you can't DO
> > anything with the system...)
> >
> > I've found the page on Wayland, but it just says "set this use flag
> > and install two packages".
> >
> > Where's the documentation that tells me what I need, and how to set
> > it up, please ...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Wol
>
> Have you tried using a Display Manager?  Some of my systems won't
> work with Wayland, but I haven't spent time to find out why all I get
> with them is a black screen.
>
> Anyway, from a VT you'd run something like:
>
> XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland
>
> or
>
> XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session gnome-session

There is a wayland greeter which uses greetd and gtkgreet which may
be worth looking at and there is a gentoo wiki which goes a long with
it. It works with wayfire which is a nice wayland window manager and is
very reliable.

Also look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Wayland_Desktop_Landscape

John