Bug 413638

Summary: Wayland session with GDM is broken
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Rohan Garg <rohan>
Component: generalAssignee: David Edmundson <kde>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: bugseforuns, nate, plasma-bugs
Priority: NOR Keywords: wayland-only
Version First Reported In: master   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Rohan Garg 2019-10-30 16:25:38 UTC
SUMMARY
Seems like GDM does not parse the Type=XSession/Wayland key for desktop files, which means GDM only lists one entry for both XSession and Wayland.

Perhaps we can name our session a bit better?

Relevant reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/dim3fo/gdm_does_not_see_the_plasma_wayland_session/f5nyjgi/

Expected result:

- GDM offers Plasma Wayland as a session

Actual result:

- GDM offers only Plasma session, which is a Xorg session
Comment 1 Patrick Silva 2020-10-16 22:44:58 UTC
it worked for me at least with GDM 3.36.x on Arch Linux.
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2022-01-12 18:24:31 UTC
Can you check again with at least Plasma 5.23? Git master or the Plasma 5.24 beta (released tomorrow) would be even better. :)
Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2022-01-27 04:37:38 UTC
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Comment 4 Bug Janitor Service 2022-02-11 04:37:16 UTC
This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
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