Is there a way to use XOrg instead of Wayland in Slackware 15 64-bit?

michael.balcos · 03-06-2022, 06:01 AM

Hi. Please forgive me if this is a basic question. I am currently clueless if there is a way to use XOrg instead of Wayland in Slackware 15 64-bit. I need this because I have some closed source applications that I need to run, but they only work satisfactorily in Xorg. Thanks in advance for your help.

GazL · 03-06-2022, 06:08 AM

Xorg is still the default on Slackware. I believe you actually have to go out of your way to select a wayland session if you want wayland.

marav · 03-06-2022, 06:09 AM

Hi,

I'm curious on how you have wayland by default ?

ReaperX7 · 03-06-2022, 08:00 AM

If you use sddm, just select the Xorg session for KDE.

Jeebizz · 03-06-2022, 10:32 AM

If you are in the default Runlevel3, just type startx for an xsession and it will launch whatever WM/DE you selected, if you do startkwayland it will launch just KDE, I don't know if something like XFCE runs under a Wayland session. Also AFAIK / remember, when I was in in runlevel 4, the only Wayland session available anyway is KDE (under sddm)

michael.balcos · 03-06-2022, 09:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marav

Hi,

I'm curious on how you have wayland by default ?

Actually, I'm not also sure if my Slackware 15 64-bit is running Wayland under default XFCE. When I try to Anydesk to my Slackware 15 installation, it complains that Wayland is not supported. I also get the following output for the following commands:

bash-5.1$ loginctl show-session $(awk '/tty/ {print $1}' <(loginctl)) -p Type | awk -F= '{print $2}'
tty
bash-5.1$ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
tty
bash-5.1$

ReaperX7 · 03-06-2022, 10:30 PM

XFce shouldn't be able to use Wayland. Last I checked the xfce4 window manager system didn't support using Wayland yet.

marav · 03-07-2022, 03:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by michael.balcos

Actually, I'm not also sure if my Slackware 15 64-bit is running Wayland under default XFCE. When I try to Anydesk to my Slackware 15 installation, it complains that Wayland is not supported. I also get the following output for the following commands:

bash-5.1$ loginctl show-session $(awk '/tty/ {print $1}' <(loginctl)) -p Type | awk -F= '{print $2}'
tty
bash-5.1$ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
tty
bash-5.1$

Same here on my VM running XFCE (startx)
And as ReaperX7 said, XFCE doesn't support Wayland yet (It's planned for XFCE 4.18)
So, maybe you should look on Anydesk side