On Tuesday, 16 September 2025 06:05:41 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Alexis wrote: > > Dale <[email protected]> writes: > >> While Wayland is installed here, I don't actively use it. I'm sure it > >> is running since things are switching in that direction tho. > > > > Just to note, since this seems to be based on a common misunderstanding: > > > > Wayland is a protocol - and more loosely, a collection of protocols[a] > > - not a server. There is no 'Wayland server' analogous to an X server. > > One doesn't start 'Wayland' and then start a WM/DE; one starts a > > compositor, which can be thought of as a combination of a server and a > > WM/DE. So it's possible to have Wayland libraries on one's system that > > aren't used / 'running' until one actively starts up a Wayland > > compositor. Their mere presence doesn't indicate that there must be a > > Wayland session running, or that a Wayland session is required to be > > running. > > > > > > Alexis. > > > > [a] Cf. the Wayland Explorer, https://wayland.app/protocols/ > > That is true. My point was, on the login screen, I don't select > Wayland. I use the old X thing, whatever it is called nowadays. That > said, I wouldn't be surprised if something Wayland was in use by some > software. I just checked and it shows no processes with wayland in it > is running but it could be that it just isn't right now. I know some > packages on here have the wayland USE flag set. I think some can't > really be disabled due to it being needed by other packages. > > I do recall a good while back that somehow Wayland was selected on the > login screen. I noticed it acting weird and logged back out. I then > noticed it had Wayland selected somehow. I switched back and it worked > like I expected. It was a while ago. > > By the way, the file still hasn't popped back up, yet. O_o > > Dale > > :-) :-)
Alt+Ctrl+F2 or F7 will show you what you started sddm with. Also in a terminal you can check this output: ~ $ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE wayland I'm running a wayland compositor here. If you see "x11", this means you are running an xserver. In addition, top and ps axf will show what process is providing your desktop GUI. If you are on wayland the xorg-session.log file will be empty, or absent, while the wayland-session.log file will be getting fat. Perhaps just as xorg- session.log file used to. :-)
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