How to test Wayland from a live USB? (Ubuntu/Kubuntu)
from pglpm@lemmy.ca to linux@lemmy.ml on 31 Jul 16:33
https://lemmy.ca/post/48956797

Does anyone know how to test a Wayland session with a Kubuntu 24.04 live USB? I’m testing it out now, but I see that it’s using an X11 session. I’d like to test how the laptop would work under Wayland instead, before installing Kubuntu or Ubuntu for good.

Some web search lead to this post, which gives quite involved instructions but it’s from 2020. Hopefully it’s more straightforward now?

Cheers!

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eldavi@lemmy.ml on 31 Jul 16:46 next collapse

is there some reasy why you can’t use a live usb of a distribution that defaults to wayland?

Hagenman@lemmy.world on 31 Jul 17:15 collapse

Fedora for example

mactan@lemmy.ml on 31 Jul 17:24 next collapse

don’t these distros package a Wayland session you can select at the greeter/ login window?

pglpm@lemmy.ca on 05 Aug 10:51 collapse

Yes, it turns out one can change session at login! Turns out Wayland doesn’t support my tablet, so I’ll stick with X11.

TechAngel@lemmy.world on 04 Aug 21:51 collapse

Those both default to Wayland for boot them up to live CD and test away

pglpm@lemmy.ca on 05 Aug 10:50 collapse

Thank you. This live USB defaulted to X11 for some reason, but I was able to change to Wayland after the session started.

It turns out Wayland doesn’t support my touch/pen-screen: "“Unsupported platform detected. Currently only X11 is supported”. So X11 it is.