Hi. I'm not sure if the situation has improved regarding this bug for others too, but it seems I was able to start XFCE over Wayland once I installed labwc.
I tried logging in with the same menu as you did, and my .xsession-errors contained: Xsession: X session started for olivier at dim. 28 juin 2026 17:25:08 CEST dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=XFCE xrdb: Can't open display '' xrdb: Can't open display '' xhost: unable to open display "" dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/xfce4:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/ dbus-update-activation-environment: setting GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge dbus-update-activation-environment: setting QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting USER=olivier dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-update-activation-environment: setting HOME=/home/olivier dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DESKTOP_SESSION=xfce-wayland dbus-update-activation-environment: setting IM_CONFIG_ENTRY=xsession dbus-update-activation-environment: setting GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus dbus-update-activation-environment: setting LOGNAME=olivier dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user dbus-update-activation-environment: setting PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=XFCE dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=xfce-wayland dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_GREETER_DATA_DIR=/var/lib/lightdm/data/olivier dbus-update-activation-environment: setting SHELL=/bin/bash dbus-update-activation-environment: setting GDMSESSION=xfce-wayland dbus-update-activation-environment: setting QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting GPG_AGENT_INFO=/run/user/1000/gnupg/S.gpg-agent:0:1 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting PWD=/home/olivier dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/xfce4:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/ /usr/bin/startxfce4: Please either install labwc or specify another compositor as argument I just installed labwc as advised by that last line, and it seems to work more or less. Hope this helps, Le Fri, Jun 06, 2025 at 03:24:59PM +0200, Santiago Garcia Mantinan a écrit : > reassign 1106079 xfce4-session > quit > > I really think this should be solved in lightdm, but given the late in the > release cycle... maybe xfce4-session can include a workaround like the one I > descrive on the bug report and have this working for Trixie. > > Regards. > -- > Manty/BestiaTester -> http://manty.net -- Olivier BERGER https://www-public.imtbs-tsp.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP 2048R/0xF9EAE3A65819D7E8 Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France)
