from wayland to x11

mainly due to screen sharing issues

October 19, 2023


Regarding possible screen sharing issues (experienced with Slack mainly), wayland needs to be disabled and x11 enabled.

In case:

echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE

shows:

  • wayland, your system is using wayland.
  • x11, yout system is using x11.

wayland can be disabled and x11 enabled by uncommenting in /etc/gdm3/custom.conf:

WaylandEnable=false

Now reboot the system and:

echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE

should display x11.