Re: startx equivalent for Wayland

[George N. White III]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 1:13 AM Dave Close <dave(a)compata.com&gt; wrote:

>  I detest a graphical login and insist on running in multi-user mode
>  (old runlevel 3). To start an X11 session after login, I can use the
>  startx command. But I haven't found an equivalent command to start a
>  Wayland session.
>
>  An old post on this list suggests using weston-launch. But dnf says
>  there is no package that includes such a command and I can't find any
>  other weston command that looks likely. Surely I can't be the only one
>  wanting to start from a command line?
>
>  (The target is a system running 64-bit F38 fully updated.) 

Yesterday I tried started a session using:

if [[ -z $DISPLAY && $XDG_SESSION_TYPE == tty ]]; then
  MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland
exec dbus-run-session gnome-session
fi

This has been working since yesterday, but today with bright sun I
discovered that the brightness setting isn't
available.  Fortunately this was a problem with some Fedora update and I
have a script that uses ddcutil to
adjust brightness, but nw wonder what other differences may turn up.

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George N. White III