From 75538328c292263a0c13bef3b0058aa291aeec48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rutger Helling Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 08:45:52 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Mention starting GNOME on Wayland manually. * doc/guix.texi (Desktop Services): Mention starting GNOME on Wayland manually. --- doc/guix.texi | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 13187f2e82..08f531b4ec 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -12297,8 +12297,10 @@ The desktop environments in Guix use the Xorg display server by default. If you'd like to use the newer display server protocol called Wayland, you need to use the @code{sddm-service} instead of the @code{slim-service} for the graphical login manager. You should then -select the ``GNOME (Wayland)'' session in SDDM. Currently only GNOME -has support for Wayland. +select the ``GNOME (Wayland)'' session in SDDM. Alternatively you can +also try starting GNOME on Wayland manually from a TTY with the +command ``XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland exec dbus-run-session +gnome-session``. Currently only GNOME has support for Wayland. @deffn {Scheme Procedure} gnome-desktop-service Return a service that adds the @code{gnome} package to the system