Ubuntu doesn't enter any WM except Gnome on Wayland

[Colin Law]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2018, 00:46 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.
>

Change the ownership of all files in your home directory to yourself and
your group, which normally they should be anyway. Google will tell you how.

Colin


>
> 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.
>
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