Re: Untangling the mess that gui startup has become

2018-09-11 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Hi Phillip, If "the gnome-shell greeter does not appear to give you any choice in what login session you get" then that means the 'eglnative' back-end (Wayland) crashed on start-up so the Wayland login option gets silently removed. If you wrote that 3 weeks ago and are using 18.10 then I thi

Re: Untangling the mess that gui startup has become

2018-09-11 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 3:33 PM Phillip Susi wrote: > Resending this after subscribing since after waiting for 3 weeks, no > moderator has released it. I am not a moderator on this list, but this list hasn't really been used for months. We use https://community.ubuntu.com/c/desktop instead and w

Untangling the mess that gui startup has become

2018-09-11 Thread Phillip Susi
Resending this after subscribing since after waiting for 3 weeks, no moderator has released it. Things used to be fairly simple. You ran startx, and it followed ~/.xinitrc which directed it to pick a display number and run XFree86 on that display number, configure it to use an XAUTHORITY file, se