Ubuntu doesn't enter any WM except Gnome on Wayland

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 21 September 2018 14:34:03 Tedd M. V. wrote:

> Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> writes:
> > 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
>
> Hello Colin, I'm sorry but that didn't work either, I used 'sudo chowd
> -R user ~/'.
>
> Thanks.

its a good thing you miss-spelled the command. If you had spelled it 
right...

And you need to spec both user:group when it is spelled right. user is of 
course your login name.


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