Ubuntu doesn't enter any WM except Gnome on Wayland

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 22 September 2018 01:17:37 Tedd M. V. wrote:

> 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.

Your installer didn't add you as a group? I don't believe I've ever 
installed without getting that setup by the installer.  I have some 
stuff in a group sandbox, but if its missing, su to root and groupadd 
your username  should work, then your home/$user directory s/b owned by 
$user:$user when you do an ls -l. Then, if your can't run something, add 
your group to that somethings name in /etc/group. man pages can be 
wonderfull sources of info about such things IF correctly written.

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