Ubuntu doesn't enter any WM except Gnome on Wayland

[Colin Law]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2018, 07:45 Bret Busby, <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Why? It all works with a different user, there is nothing fundamental wrong.

Colin



> 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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