Ubuntu doesn't enter any WM except Gnome on Wayland

[Bret Busby]

On 21/09/2018, 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.
>

I just noticed, in a reply to that, that I incorrectly put 16.04,
instead of 18.04.

Should have been 18.04....

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