On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 16:17:41 +0100 Michael <confabul...@kintzios.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
