Ubuntu doesn't enter any WM except Gnome on Wayland

[Bret Busby]

On 21/09/2018, Tedd M. V. <tmv713 at cryptolab.net> wrote:
> Hello people.
>
> I have a machine using Ubuntu 18.04 with the kernel 4.15.0-34-generic
> using all the latest updates I have tried in the past to use another WM,
> but every time and install one and reboot to select it at the login
> screen it seems to load, a black screen appears and then the login
> screen shows agains.
>
> Some notes:
>
> * I have tried to use KDE, lxde, xfce, i3, and xmonad.
> * Unity and Gnome without Wayland also don't work.
> * When the machine had few time after the update to 18.04 it was
>   possible to use Unity and non-Wayland Gnome, but I never used any
>   other WM.
> * I believe it has something to do with the permissions, you see, in
>   the past I tried to use synaptic and run other programs as sudo, but it
>   didn't work if used under Wayland so someone on an official Ubuntu
>   forum said something about running this command 'xhost
>   si:localuser:root' and I think I also used with my normal user.
> * Another user said something about editing config .name file, but I
>   don't remember which one, it was similar the command what I edited.
>
> Thanks for your atention and I'm hoping you can help,
> Tedd.
>

I suggest stripping it and doing a clean install of UbubtuMATE 16.04.

UbuntuMATE 18.04 installed and runs okay (as much as it is, as it has
lost some of the packages that are present in 16.04), for me.

I use a Win95 appearance GUI on UbuntuMATE 16.04 and 18.04.

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Bret Busby
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