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disable Wayland and enable Xorg display on Ubuntu

May 18th, 2018
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  1. Objective - Disable Wayland and enable Xorg display server on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux
  2. The default Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver installation comes with Wayland enabled. The objective is to disable Wayland and enable Xorg display server instead.
  3. Operating System and Software Versions
  4. Operating System: - Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver
  5. Software: - GDM3
  6. Requirements
  7. Privileged access to is required to perform this configuration.
  8. Difficulty
  9. EASY
  10. Conventions
  11. # - requires given linux commands to be executed with root privileges either directly as a root user or by use of sudo command
  12. $ - requires given linux commands to be executed as a regular non-privileged user
  13. Instructions
  14. Configure GDM3
  15. As a privileged administrator user use your text editor to perform the following changes of the GDM3 custom configuration file /etc/gdm3/custom.conf.
  16. FROM:
  17. #WaylandEnable=false
  18. TO:
  19. WaylandEnable=false
  20. By uncommenting the above line your system will use the Xorg display manager instead of Wayland next time it boots.
  21. Reboot
  22. Reboot your system to apply the changes.
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