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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/23/23 08:29, Ian Bruntlett wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Little Girl,<br>
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rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I see that you've already
figured out that the issue happened while<br>
using Wayland, but I'm curious whether you've got a setting
for this<br>
now that you're using Xorg.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">Bear in mind I am No Expert in this...</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">I discovered that, when logging in, a
cog would appear in the bottom half of the display. Clicking
on the cog would allow me to select one of two options for
providing the GUI.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">I selected the one for "X" and logged
in - perfect! emacs (G?UI) window appeared fine, Firefox
appeared OK.</div>
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You don't happen to be using an NVIDIA card, do you? NVIDIA and
Wayland are notorious for not working together well in Ubuntu. If
this is the case, you may want to set X as the default.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">The environment variable
$XDG_SESSION_TYPE has the value "wayland" when the GUI isn't
working properly, and "x11" when it is.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">HTH,</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">Ian<br>
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Aaron Rainbolt
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