Just a week before the official 3.12 release, GNOME gives us an easy way to try the highest anticipated feature of the last 15 years. Yeap, since the creation of GNOME 1 :)

The changes are made today on GDM (latest patches- actually some minutes ago) and you can see them at Git:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gdm

Under /usr/share/wayland-sessions, there is now the gnome-wayland.desktop file

[Desktop Entry] Name=GNOME on Wayland Comment=This session logs you into GNOME, using Wayland Exec=gnome-session --session=gnome-wayland TryExec=gnome-session Icon= Type=Application X-GDM-NeedsVT=true

Note that GNOME on Wayland is coming only as a Tech Preview, there are known bugs, and it only works with Open Drivers. If you are wondering for nVidia proprietary support, there isn’t any official statement yet.

X-GDM-NeedsVT

The X-GDM-NeedsVT flag is actually a leftover. It’s not required in the new code that landed.

This key was required to let the display-manager know that this program needs its own VT to work, and will supply its own display on that VT.

Ray Strode: