Ubuntu doesn't enter any WM except Gnome on Wayland

[Tedd M. V.]

Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> writes:

> 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.

Hi, I did write wrong but run it 'almost' correctly; but I'm sorry...which
group should I use?

The command 'groups' show me this:
tmv adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin sambashare debian-tor

Thanks.

-- 
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.12
GAT d- s+:+ a? C++++ UL++++ P+ L+++ E+ W+++ N+ o-- K+ w 
O-- M- V- PS++ PE Y+ PGP++ t+ 5 X+ R tv- b+++ DI-- D+ 
G++ e* h! r- z* 
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

GPG: 37219EA0D04C8D3C
Keybase: tmv
Ring: tmv
Cryptocat: tmv
Bitmessage: BM-2cSx4RVaXbRvWmPtRsdoW25f8wipSMVRAG
Signal: Upon request | Bajo solicitación
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 832 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20180922/7f835d18/attachment.sig>