On 26 Jun 2026 at 18:10, Roger Heflin wrote: From: Roger Heflin <[email protected]> Date sent: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:10:09 -0500 Subject: Re: Re: startx fails after update To: Community support for Fedora users <[email protected]> Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <[email protected]>
> Gnome no longer supports X11, and I think startx/xinit may default to > X. Gnome seems to rely on user/systemd services to start wayland/X11 > and the X11 service files don't appear to be there anymore. > > I dug through it for a good day and concluded there was no way to work > around gnome's decision to change the default to not support X11. > > I am now using Mate as I could use wayland if I could get RDP to > actually work (replacing VNC), but RDP+gnome seems like a disaster. > If it works then it works, but if/when does not work the errors are > total useless and/or no one knows what the error means and/or how to > fix it. On my machine the log files had dates in 2025. I use XFCE DM for both local and VNC and the work fine with TurboVNC. Know with previous VNC if you had Wayland or some of the Gnome Options, you could either connect locally or with VNC, but could do both. I opted for XFCE with both. Not clear if TurboVNC is using its own X11, or the systems. I VNC into 3 other machines locally, and to 7 other machines in Guam with no problems. > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2026 at 5:55 PM Patrick Dupre via users > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On 6/26/26 2:33 PM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > > > After updating from fc42 to fc44, startx fails. > > > What to do? See below > > > > > ** (gnome-session:4909): WARNING **: 23:19:46.671: Launched from the > > > TTY. Launching a Wayland session > > Gnome wants to run Wayland. Why are you trying to start X? > > > > This machine is used only for rescue and I do not start an X session > > intentionally > > Starting in text mode and then startx was working fine in fc42. > > Has it been changed in fc43 or fc44 ? > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > Fedora Code of Conduct: > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > List Archives: > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] > > Do not reply to spam, report it: > > https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
