Ubuntu doesn't enter any WM except Gnome on Wayland

[Tedd M. V.]

Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> writes:

> 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.

Hi, thanks, the problem is my WM's so 'maybe' the users where wrong for
some error I did and that's why they recommended to check, but it's not
the main problem.

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