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How to Install gnome-session-wayland software package in Ubuntu

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GNOME is a desktop environment that aims to be simple and easy to use. It is designed by The GNOME Project and is composed entirely of free and open-source software. The default display is Wayland instead of Xorg.

Wayland

Wayland is both a display server and its reference implementation in Unix-like operating systems that is meant to improve upon and replace the X Window System. The primary difference between Wayland and X is that, in Wayland, the compositor is the server rather than a separate component. This enables clients to exchange events directly with the compositor, cutting out the X server as a middle man.

Wayland was first released in 2008, and although X.Org Server still dominates in Linux distributions, adoption of Wayland has been slowly increasing. For example, Fedora® started using Wayland as its default display server starting with version 25, released in November of 2016.

gnome-session-wayland software package provides GNOME Session Manager – GNOME 3 session (transitional package), you can install in your Ubuntu system by running the commands given below on the terminal:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install gnome-session-wayland 

gnome-session-wayland is now installed in your system.

Make ensure the gnome-session-wayland package were installed using the commands given below:

$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep gnome-session-wayland *

List of files in the Package

Below files are included in the gnome-session-wayland package:

/usr/share/doc/gnome-session-wayland/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/gnome-session-wayland/copyright

Starting wayland sessions

Manually starting a Wayland session is possible with XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session gnome-session. Alternatively, call gnome-shell directly with its wayland flag from any available tty:

$ gnome-shell --wayland
Note: When the GNOME session is used, GNOME applications will be run using Wayland.

Filed Under: Linux, Ubuntu

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